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KamaAina

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3. SF has an all-LGBT shelter.
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 05:16 PM
Jun 2016
http://kron4.com/2015/06/17/nations-first-lgbt-homeless-shelter-opens-in-sf/

Jazzie’s Place, the first homeless shelter for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults in the U.S., opened in San Francisco’s Mission District today to help serve the housing needs of nearly a third of the city’s homeless population who identify as LGBT.

Wendy Phillips, the director of Dolores Street Community Services and Jazzie’s Place, said the new shelter is intended to be a space where all shelter guests are treated with dignity and respect.

The shelter is named after Jazzie Collins, a transgender African American woman who was an advocate for homeless LGBT folks prior to her death in 2013.

Collins was also among those who helped dream up the LGBT shelter, according to Tommi Avicolli Mecca, the director of counseling programs at the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco.


I ran into Jazzie at quite a few budget actions back in the Ahh-nuld era.
I have done volunteer work repairing a small women's shelter in a two bedroom house with braddy Jun 2016 #1
I've volunteered a lot and what about women whose abusers were women? uppityperson Jun 2016 #16
I give up, what about them? braddy Jun 2016 #19
Post removed Post removed Jun 2016 #2
That's an anti-abortion, anti-LGBT garbage site REP Jun 2016 #4
That assault was covered in mainstream media sources as well. EL34x4 Jun 2016 #5
SF has an all-LGBT shelter. KamaAina Jun 2016 #3
Ok where should a homeless transgender woman find shelter? Warren Stupidity Jun 2016 #6
Women's shelters EL34x4 Jun 2016 #7
yeah. And they are likely to be at risk there as well. Warren Stupidity Jun 2016 #8
Eh, transphobic piece of shit has an opinion, and it should carry weight why? n/t Humanist_Activist Jun 2016 #9
Was it an actual trans woman or just a dude saying he was a woman? romanic Jun 2016 #10
Who makes this decision? EL34x4 Jun 2016 #12
Cis transphobes. Warren Stupidity Jun 2016 #13
Okay. romanic Jun 2016 #15
If you read the article, it was an "actual" trans woman and the author's transphobia is clear uppityperson Jun 2016 #18
This sort of bigotry is not new phenomenon, sadly. Warren DeMontague Jun 2016 #11
Anybody promoting this scare tactic should be ashamed of themselves. yardwork Jun 2016 #14
This part shows the author's transphobia. uppityperson Jun 2016 #17
Why are you posting this transphobic article on DU? nt LostOne4Ever Jun 2016 #20
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