Kim Kardashian Donates $50,000 to Trevor Project
Although Kim Kardashian's 72-day marriage was the focal point for gay rights activist who used the short nuptial as an argument for marriage equality, the reality TV star recently gave $50,000 to the Trevor Project, US Weekly Magazine reported in a Jan. 24 article.
Kardashian raised money for the Trevor Project, an organization that helps prevent suicide among LGBT youth, in September when she attended a 9/11 Cantor Fitzgerald event.
"The firm lost more than 600 employees in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, they donated all revenues from their trades to charities around the world," Kardashian wrote in a blog post. "I was honored to take part!!"
RumorFix.com reported that a close source to the celebrity said that "it's important to Kim to support The Trevor Project because lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people face extreme levels of hate and discrimination in her generation and she knows that they need safe places like the Trevor Project to turn for help."
Soon after Kardashian, 31, divorced the professional basketball player Kris Humphries, 26, gay rights activists criticized the couple for their short-term marriage and their $18 million wedding, EDGE reported.
Openly gay actor and activist George Takei took to Twitter when he heard that the couple would be going separate ways.
"Kim Kardashian files for divorce after 72 days," Takei tweeted, according to an Oct. 31 Reuters article. "Another example of how same-sex marriage is destroying the sanctity of the very institution."