Become a PTL Project Advocate

Those who volunteer their time, expertise, and efforts to support us are recognized as PTL Project Advocates. Where applicable, we'll work with your school or organization so you can get course credit. Read below for more information on available opportunities.

Eligibility

Pink Triangle Legacies Project Advocates can be anyone in the world who:

is committed to preserving and sharing LGBTQ+ history
can work and communicate proficiently in English
has easy access to a university or public library for conducting the necessary research
has equipment to record their videos, such as a laptop, smartphone, or camera
has a Gmail account (all work will be conducted on Google Drive)
is at least 18 years of age

Projects

Pink Triangle Legacies Project Advocates volunteer their time on one of the following projects:

RESEARCHER

Advocates research, write, and produce one profile resource kit to be added to the PTL Project’s LGBTQ+ Stories from Nazi Germany initiative. These profile resource kits tell the true story of a queer or trans person who lived during the era of the Holocaust. To serve different learning styles, each profile resource kit includes the following, all of which are created by the Advocate:

A digital essay of no more than 1,100 words;
A PDF handout of no more than 600 words;
A 5-7 minute YouTube video

There is no timeline or deadline for Advocates to complete their profile resource kit. In the past, it has taken our team members 6 to 8 weeks to complete a profile resource kit when working on it part time (approximately 3 hours per week).

READER

In order to make our online content as accessible as possible, we are looking for Advocates to produce audio versions of our essays. Advocates can pick or will be assigned an essay. They will record themselves reading the essays as an .mp4 file.

We are searching for readers in the following languages:

English
Spanish

What Advocates Receive

While we cannot currently offer financial compensation to PTL Project Advocates, we want to show our gratitude by providing Advocates with:

A personalized, signed copy of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust
A profile on our PTL Project Team page
Named credit on all of their work

Additionally, the PTL Project will work with your school or organization to help you receive credit for your work where applicable. It is the responsibility of the Advocate to find out what paperwork and documentation their school or organization needs.

Interested? Let Us Know

If you would like to volunteer and become a PTL Project Advocate, please send an email to jake@pinktrianglelegacies.org stating which project you're interested in contributing to.