tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64585091611146236352024-03-19T01:11:23.178-07:00LGBTQ Homeless Youth Leadership ProjectUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-63203734531728225992012-09-14T13:38:00.000-07:002012-09-14T13:43:26.316-07:00Best Practices for LGBTQ Youth Family Acceptance and Reunification<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="contentTitle">Title:</td><td class="contentData">Best Practices for LGBTQ Youth Family Acceptance and Reunification <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/242094315911802">(click her to learn more about our next webinar)</a></td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Duration:</td><td class="contentData">01:04:14</td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Presenters:</td><td class="contentData">Jerry Peterson of the Rainbow Community Center
in Contra Costa County (Bay Area)</td>
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<td class="contentTitle"><br /></td><td class="contentData">Pastor Megan Rohrer, Executive Director of <a href="http://www.welcomeministry.org/">Welcome</a></td>
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<td class="contentTitle">URL for Viewing:</td><td class="contentData"><a href="http://welcome.adobeconnect.com/p5sgs4q52zx/">http://welcome.adobeconnect.com/p5sgs4q52zx/</a></td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Summary:</td><td class="contentData">A 101
level conversation with . An important conversation because
of the laws that require mandated reporting of homeless youth and forced
family reunification and for the increased desire of funders to see
family reunification components in work with LGBTQ homeless youth. </td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Language:</td><td class="contentData">English</td>
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<tr><td class="contentTitle">Uploaded on:</td><td class="contentData">09/14/2012 1:33 PM</td><td class="contentData"></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-86773617483973659282012-08-20T21:55:00.003-07:002012-08-20T21:56:24.036-07:00The Salt Shakers Broke, But they Were United that Day!<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We marched because</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in the early 1960’s Vanguard (queer
street youth) of the Tenderloin marched with pastors and seniors to get federal
funds for the area and demand that the city pick up the actual trash rather
than sending the police to sweep them out of the area.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They Won!</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Poverty funds they won provided the funding for many of the homeless
organizations that still exist in the Tenderloin, and the meal night they
created at Glide Memorial is nationally known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We gather at Turk and
Taylor to remember</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
the 46<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Compton Cafeteria Riots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Documented in Susan Stryker’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Screaming Queens</i>, the riots came were a
response to police harassment and discrimination by the owners of all-night
coffee shops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transgender activists and
the Vanguard youth threw salt and sugar shakers out windows and fought back
against police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Work Continues!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">LGBTQ homeless youth in the Tenderloin still struggle with
police harassment and discrimination by business owners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today it is estimated that 1 in 4 youth who
come out to parents will become homeless and that 40% of the estimated 3,200
homeless youth in San Francisco are LGBTQ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A contemporary group of LGBTQ
homeless youth, supported by the Welcome Ministry and the GLBT Historical
Society have been working in the last three years to share the story of the
1960’s Vanguard youth and meet regularly as the new group Otro Vanguard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They helped to plan today’s action with
Pastor Megan Rohrer and Felicia Flames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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You can watch a live stream of the rally here:</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V8roEmt0NOk" width="420"></iframe>
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The presentation begins about 20 minutes into the video. Enjoy!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-73845023142032951502012-08-17T20:00:00.003-07:002012-09-14T13:41:36.034-07:00Webinar Archive: Transgender Homeless Youth (featuring Zander Keig)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="contentTitle">Title:</td><td class="contentData">Transgender Homeless Youth (featuring Zander Keig)</td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Duration:</td><td class="contentData">00:59:01</td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Presenters</td><td class="contentData">Zander Keig</td>
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<td class="contentTitle"><br /></td><td class="contentData">Pastor Megan Rohrer</td>
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<td class="contentTitle">URL for Viewing:</td><td class="contentData"><a href="http://welcome.adobeconnect.com/p3il046q1jq/">http://welcome.adobeconnect.com/p3il046q1jq/</a></td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Summary:</td><td class="contentData">Webinars
for faith leaders who work with LGBTQ Homeless youth meets every second
Friday through the end of 2012.
(this event is also open to those who are interested in working with
LGBTQ Homeless youth, seminarians and those of no particular faith who
want to learn how to work with faith groups)
A project of Welcome (www.welcomeministry.org), sponsored by the Sam
Mazza Foundation, Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries and the Coallition
of Welcoming Congregations Bay Area.
Webinars will enable participants to network and learn best practices:
Join us for our next webinar on September 14th, on Learning Harm
Reduction Skills
For more information or to be added to our email list, contact the Rev.
Megan Rohrer at Megan@welcomeministry.org</td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Language:</td><td class="contentData">English</td>
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<tr><td class="contentTitle">Uploaded on:</td><td class="contentData">08/17/2012 7:56 PM</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-63156152594732505932012-08-10T17:18:00.001-07:002012-08-10T17:19:24.445-07:00Best Practices for Working w/LGBTQ Homeless Youth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="contentTitle">Title:</td><td class="contentData">Best Practices for Working w/LGBTQ Homeless Youth</td>
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<td class="contentTitle"><br /></td><td class="contentData"><br /></td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Presenter:</td><td class="contentData">Rev. Megan Rohrer</td>
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<td class="contentTitle">URL for Viewing:</td><td class="contentData"><a href="http://meet77681870.adobeconnect.com/p9pjmpf8nwb/">http://meet77681870.adobeconnect.com/p9pjmpf8nwb/</a></td>
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<td class="contentTitle">Summary:</td><td class="contentData">A project
of Welcome (www.welcomeministry.org), sponsored by the Sam Mazza
Foundation, Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries and the Coallition of
Welcoming Congregations Bay Area.
This is a recording of our first webinar on best practices.
This group meets every second Friday at 3pm EST, 2pm CST and 12pm PST.
Join the live webinars at:
http://meet77681870.adobeconnect.com/r3y6heyopwz/
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<td class="contentTitle">Language:</td><td class="contentData">English</td>
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<tr><td class="contentTitle">Uploaded on:</td><td class="contentData">08/10/2012 5:16 PM</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-7695045285641269512012-05-18T17:27:00.001-07:002012-05-18T17:27:07.490-07:00Cleveland's Poem - Homeless Youth from Houston, TX<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BSNLYzLVgoQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-27069388139312046312012-05-16T17:20:00.003-07:002012-05-16T17:20:39.892-07:00Pastor Thom Talks about LGBTQ Homeless Youth in San Francisco<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/d-czjHJ1Twc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-64597848505208821712012-04-26T22:29:00.001-07:002012-04-26T22:34:50.500-07:00Gay homeless youth teaches the wobble in Houston<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ekjR1ZLkwSw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-47021794934700098452012-04-26T03:37:00.001-07:002012-04-26T03:37:39.532-07:00How Trinity Place Shelter Was Created: New York City<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BBMsDPhrRGc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-47245825442765434312012-04-22T11:16:00.002-07:002012-04-22T11:16:19.479-07:00LGBTQ Homeless Youth in Alaska<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F-pjlKU1Oas" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-72302502313904502242012-02-19T21:09:00.000-08:002012-05-16T17:25:26.422-07:00LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Videos by StateAlabama<br />
Alaska<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/lgbtq-homeless-youth-in-alaska.html">LGBTQ Homeless Youth in Alaska </a></li>
</ul>
Arizona<br />
Arkansas<br />
California<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/05/pastor-thom-talks-about-lgbtq-homeless.html">Pastor Thom talks about LGBTQ Homeless Youth in San Francisco </a></li>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2011/12/taylor-san-francisco.html">Taylor, San Francisco</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxj1nIlM09s">Trans Experience San Francisco and New York</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SppZVP49lg">Homeless Queer Youth San Francisco and Los Angeles</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZoumcCBcyo">Homeless Youth San Francisco and Portland</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94JZJhOXAXk">Vanguard Youth 1960's and 2011</a> (San Francisco)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJxyD9jTB4">1960's Vanguard Youth</a> (San Francisco)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMXG8xKP9m8">Vanguard Pastors 1963-1971</a> (San Francisco)</li>
</ul>
Colorado<br />
Connecticut<br />
Delaware<br />
Florida<br />
Georgia<br />
Hawaii<br />
Idaho<br />
Illinois<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/01/lgbtq-homeless-youth-chicago.html">LGBTQ Homeless Youth: Chicago</a></span></li>
</ul>
Indiana<br />
Iowa<br />
Kansas<br />
Kentucky<br />
Louisiana<br />
Maine<br />
Maryland<br />
Massachusetts<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/01/lgbtq-homeless-youth-in-massachusetts.html">LGBTQ Homeless Youth in Massachusetts </a></li>
</ul>
Michigan<br />
Minnesota<br />
Mississippi<br />
Missouri<br />
Montana<br />
Nebraska<br />
Nevada<br />
New Hampshire<br />
New Jersey<br />
New Mexico<br />
New York<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-york-city.html">"Jeremy," New York</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxj1nIlM09s">Trans Experience San Francisco and New York</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-trinity-place-shelter-was-created.html">How the Trinity Place Shelter in New York City was created </a></li>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/02/lgbtq-homeless-youth-on-long-island.html">LGBTQ Homeless Youth in Long Island</a></li>
</ul>
North Carolina<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://lgbtqhomelessyouth.blogspot.com/2012/01/lgbtq-homeless-youth-in-north-carolina.html">LGBTQ Homeless Youth in North Carolina</a></li>
</ul>
North Dakota<br />
Ohio<br />
Oklahoma<br />
Oregon<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZoumcCBcyo">Homeless Youth San Francisco and Portland</a></li>
</ul>
Pennsylvania<br />
Rhode Island<br />
South Carolina<br />
South Dakota<br />
Tennessee<br />
Texas<br />
Utah<br />
Vermont<br />
Virginia<br />
Washington<br />
West<br />
Virginia<br />
Wisconsin<br />
WyomingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-54691918919225566012012-02-01T22:32:00.002-08:002012-02-02T08:22:17.945-08:00Lady Gaga Mass: Live on Long Island (1/30/2012)This service was celebrated at Long Island University in order to bring awareness to the need for a shelter for LGBTQ homeless youth in the area.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rK2vRaPdM08" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IotV5NgxavI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/c3HMpf73dCc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/do6A5SN5T9o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/80bhtCQt5Zk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-57254818853720791332012-02-01T21:51:00.001-08:002012-02-01T21:52:10.161-08:00LGBTQ Homeless Youth on Long Island<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sNpzmh_v_v0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />Interview with Pastor Jon Dornheim, 1/30/2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-63624218367257361852012-01-30T21:16:00.001-08:002012-01-30T21:16:07.000-08:00Laws affecting LGBTQ homeless youth (particularly ones of color)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q7YE3xMFsC4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Recorded at Creating Change 2012<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-58164683655330479712012-01-30T12:22:00.001-08:002012-01-30T12:33:43.854-08:00"Jeremy," New York City<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GqPnEkuOds8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />PGP= preferred gender pronounUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-35484850596288337412012-01-28T08:26:00.001-08:002012-01-28T08:26:08.665-08:00LGBTQ Homeless Youth in North CarolinaLaurie Pitts talks about life for LGBTQ homeless youth in Charlotte, North Carolina. <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HRXTcMGZHYY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Interview at the 2012 Creating Change Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-53746964407856066332012-01-27T20:05:00.001-08:002012-01-28T09:35:54.687-08:00A Faithful Response to LGBTQ Homeless Youth: Creating Change<i>This is a recording of the Revs. Megan Rohrer and Dawn Roginski presenting at the 2012 Creating Change Conference.</i><br /><br /><br />The audio appears in the form of you tube clips. Introduction to Vanguard youth video: <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uHN6aNvCasc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Video of the vanguard narratives.Oral histories by Joey Plaster:<br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xvJxyD9jTB4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />The history of pastors organizing in San Francisco, coordinated by the National Council of Churches in the 60's: <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6uJoF0m6J0o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Video of the pastors who worked with the vanguard youth. Oral Histories by Louis Durham, Susan Stryker and Megan Rohrer:<br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BMXG8xKP9m8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Description of how this history was used with queer homeless youth in San Francisco: <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-gr3391LbIE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Video of queer home easy ugh and advocates talking about their needs in San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Oral histories by Megan Rohrer:<br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gxJj7X4N-T4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Description of organizing around federal poverty funds and why this is significant for gay history: <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YvRkj1rNJfQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Best practices for congregations on welcoming LGBTQ individuals: <a href="http://cwcbay.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Best-Practices-for-GLBTQI-inclusion-within-a-congregation.pdf">PDF of PowerPoint</a> <br /><br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Baltimore,%20Maryland&z=10'>Baltimore, Maryland</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-20752198617984953742012-01-27T06:06:00.001-08:002012-01-27T06:06:20.268-08:00LGBTQ Homeless Youth in MassachusettsThis information shocked me to learn. It's a must listen for anyone wondering what would happen if family reunification became a best practice for working with homeless youth.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fdhUO9nMPzI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />A special thank you to Cathy from <a href="http://jointheimpactma.com/">Join the Impact MA</a>, who recorded this interview with me after a attending a nine hour session - talk about a gift. My apologies that the audio starts to clip a bit at the end. But the words are so important that I left them in the interview.<br /><br /><br />Interview from the Creating Change Conference in Baltimore.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-6335241574608710712012-01-25T14:52:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:53:48.781-08:00Video: advocates for LGBTQ youth across the country<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gxJj7X4N-T4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-66131572643058508502012-01-18T21:30:00.000-08:002012-01-18T21:31:31.978-08:00In the News: Windy City Times<table background="http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/images/spacer.gif" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="98%"><tbody><tr></tr><tr> <td valign="top"><span class="fp-newshead"><b>The pleasures and perils of LGBTQ history</b><br /></span> <span class="fp-newsbody-a1"><i>AHA CONFERENCE</i><br /></span><span class="article-body"> <i>by Joe Franco<br /></i> <i>2012-01-18<br /></i> </span> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><hr /></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <br /></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><hr /></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><span class="article-body"><br />As part of the American History Association's recent conference in Chicago, a great deal of discussion was devoted to the emerging interest in LGBTQ history. An early-morning panel discussion Jan. 8 confronted many of the problems and the successes with LGBTQ history and its dissemination to the popular masses. Lauren Jae Gutterman, the panel's moderator and a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, started the group's discussion. <p> Professor Kevin Murphy, with the University of Minnesota, discussed his recent tribulations when putting together an oral history of the Twin Cities, saying, "We collected over 100 oral histories of the Twin Cities LGBTQ community. Historians, sociologists, geographers and ethnologists tried working together but found it difficult to create a work that would make their work interesting to the masses." The resulting book, Queer Twin Cities, was not well-received by the media or the intended target audience. Murphy admitted that not even the local Minneapolis gay press reviewed the book after its 2011 release. He said that it was "heartening to see the localized interest in GLBT history" but that, ultimately, the work seemed to alienate readers. </p><p> Professor John D'Emilio, with the University of Illinois-Chicago, brought more problems with LGBTQ public history to the table. He is co-director of a website called OutHistory.org that was originally envisioned to be "Wiki-like" in that anyone could submit entries with constant updating from others. "The problem," said D'Emilio, "is that almost nobody submitted any content. Ultimately, there just was never going to be enough interest and enough content to build up steam." </p><p> D'Emilio believed the upcoming re-design of the website would help: "We want to abandon the 'Wiki' concept and make the content more transparent for the user." D'Emilio's solution for making LGBTQ public history more accessible through the web involved the use of individuals and more popular features that were user-friendly. He admitted that this was absolutely imperative that academics learned to speak in a language that made what they had to teach and say more accessible. </p><p> Professor Don Romesburg—an assistant professor at Sonoma State University and a curator for the recently opened GLBT History Museum (the first full-scale, stand-alone facility of its kind in the United States) in San Francisco—reported on a definite success in the LGBTQ-history scene. Worldwide attention focused on the opening of the facility, prompting Romesburg to joke, "Britney Spears was at our museum." </p><p> Tens of thousands of individuals have visited the museum since its opening last January. "We've had 2,000 new Facebook 'Likes' and 100 new members in our first year alone," said Romesburg. The museum is unique in that it resisted a chronologically linear model in its layout. "The arrangement was about demonstrating belonging and making power present," said Romesburg about the museum's success. The museum's success, seen in light of the failure of other queer-history initiatives, certainly begs the question, "What did the GLBT History Museum do differently?" Romesburg theorized, "We tried to welcome everybody. The construction of a museum means that we matter. It's relevant, important and meaningful."</p><p> The discussion ended with Joey Plaster, a graduate student at Yale, and Rev. Megan Rohrer, a Lutheran minister who works with at-risk and impoverished LGBT youth of the Castro and Tenderloin neighborhoods in San Francisco. </p><p> Their work with the queer youth is not unlike Boystown's unprecedented problems this past summer. The gentrified Castro wanted the gay youth out of the neighborhood. A concerted effort among the residents, shop owners, bar owners and politicians began to form. </p><p> Ultimately, Plaster and Rohrer used history as a way of mobilizing the disenfranchised queer youth. They used the imagery of the 1960s to propel the voices of the neighborhood queer youth. Rohrer said that "the use of tactile GLBT historical artifacts was more than enough motivation for the queer youth to spring into action." She added, "When an individual gets to see and touch something historical, something from the past, this alone is transformative." </p></span></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-9716647590346667772012-01-12T13:59:00.000-08:002012-01-12T14:23:51.565-08:00LGBTQ Homeless Youth: Chicago<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenightministry.org%2F&ei=A1kPT62QMMWviQKX5vnLDQ&usg=AFQjCNGZUJsqzd6DLcGZLWTH17YmZ7X0eA">The Night Ministry</a><br />Chicago<br />Interviews: 1/9/2012<br /><br />Pastor Jen has worked at the Night Ministry in Chicago for about 7 years. Hear her thoughts about the LGBTQ youth she works with:<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_mNa2wjCOCA" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Videos of my interviews with the youth will be added soon.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-38495490844123336052011-12-31T08:17:00.000-08:002012-01-01T08:07:02.282-08:00Taylor, San Francisco<span>Every LGBTQ homeless youth has their own story to tell. Taylor's story is just one of them. Together with the stories of other youth around the country, we can begin to learn more about the struggles LGBTQ Homeless youth face. But remember, no one person can represent an entire population. Nor, can a few videos tell the entire story of one individual. <span style="font-style: italic;">This was Taylor's story on 12/29/2011.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Video 1: Excerpts<br /></span><span>Brief highlights from Taylor's interviews. Longer clips of the interviews can be found by topic below.<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OEOv13g3b5c" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Video 2: How I Became Homeless</span><br />This is Taylor's story about leaving home in order to get hormones, living in unsafe conditions and ending up homeless in San Francisco. I included some information below the video that you may need to know to understand Taylor's story:<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v44rJ46iI5U" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">blood tests</span>- before getting hormones, you have to undergo blood tests<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">master/slave relationship</span>- a sexual relationship where two individuals have negotiated to role play a master and slave fantasy.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">meal night</span>- a program for LGBTQ youth at the San Francisco LGBT center<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Lark-Inn </span>- the city of San Francisco's only emergency shelter, run by the Larkin Street Youth Program<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">MSC South </span>- a shelter in San Francisco's mission district that has a 24 hour drop in waiting room. It is rumored to be the roughest shelter in town.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">SRO</span>- a single room occupancy hotel room. This is San Francisco's method of getting homeless folk off the streets, that according to the Federal government is still considered homelessness. Most individuals in SRO's don't get their own tenants rights because the SRO's are leased by other organizations.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video 2: Stereotypes of LGBTQ Homeless Youth</span><br />Taylor talks about: 1) runaways and throwaways; 2) suicide; 3) sex work; 4) bathrooms; 5) hate crimes; 6) police relations.<br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M8IXM3JX3YU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">clockable </span>- when someone can tell that you are trans it's sometimes called being "clocked"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video 3: Message and Political Issues Important to LGBTQ Homeless Youth</span><br />Taylor talks about the main political needs for LGBTQ homeless youth and Taylor's message for other youth who may be watching.<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cUPUp3CS_Go" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video 4: Vanguard Project</span><br />Taylor was one of the youth published in the first issue of Vanguard Revisited. Taylor reflects on the weekly Monday gatherings, how it helped the youth stay in touch and how it felt to work with pastors.<br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aGYR0n6HMaw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-34568821262543934412011-12-27T19:25:00.001-08:002011-12-27T19:25:45.075-08:00Introducing: Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries<div style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><i>Just Lutheran</i> is funded in part by a grant from <a href="http://www.elm.org">Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries</a> (E-L-M). ELM has been providing financial support for Welcome since 2007 through our Grants program. 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;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;" >ELM works to expand ministry opportunities for publicly-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Lutheran rostered leaders and seminarians who are changing the church and society through their ministry. ELM provides grants to LGBTQ rostered leaders and scholarships to LGBTQ seminarians; fosters community among these leaders through Proclaim, the professional community for publicly-identified LGBTQ Lutheran rostered leaders and seminarians; and supports LGBTQ Lutheran candidates for ministry.</span> </span></span><br /><div style=" text-align: center;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size:small;"><em><b></b></em></span></div><div style=" text-align: center;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><em><br /></em></span></div><div style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.elm.org/proclaim/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CvcUpM5IH4Nwm5oWcg5pIkYfzLD_R1kPQtfBlSUeTtHt0VADEOl26AQmNMO3AdmHAfTw4b9EYxWiHUd7IeoOk5B-j6mzlec8FoNAVb61Z-sqg0RLjl6WFGTthhvqni_ZhVB9kxE2yDbQ/s200/proclaim_logo_rgb.jpg" border="0" height="150" width="200" /></a><span>These are ELM's primary programs:</span><span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;" align="center"></div><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><div style=" margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span></span><b><span>Proclaim</span></b><span>, the professional community for publicly identified LGBTQ Lutheran rostered leaders and seminarians. This community welcomes all who fit this criteria and who wish to join. Membership is on an annual basis and provides access to ELM grants, scholarships, an annual retreat, and community throughout the year. <span> </span></span></span></div><div style=" margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style=" margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><b><span>Grants</span></b><span>. Each year, ELM gives grants to ministry led by an LGBTQ person. ELM also names one or more Joel Workin Memorial Scholars each year. This award includes a $1,000 scholarship for education or candidacy expenses. </span></span></div><div face="Verdana,sans-serif" style=" margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></div><div face="Verdana,sans-serif" style=" margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><b><span>Candidacy Accompaniment</span></b><span>.ELM operates a grassroots program of candidacy accompaniment to support LGBTQ people in Lutheran candidacy. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;" align="center"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style=" line-height: normal;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">ELM is governed by a 12 person Board of Directors. ELM’s staff includes full-time Executive Director Amalia Vagts (based in Decorah, IA) and part-time Operations Coordinator Rachael Johnson (based in Chicago, IL). ELM is funded almost entirely through donations from individuals and congregations and is based in Chicago, IL.<span> </span>You can make a donation or learn more at <a href="http://www.elm.org/">www.elm.org</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana,sans-serif" style=" line-height: normal; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -1in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style=" line-height: normal; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -1in;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">CONTACT: <span> </span>Amalia Vagts; <a href="mailto:director@elm.org">director@elm.org</a>; 563-382-6277<br /> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-62076098682790936022011-11-26T12:42:00.000-08:002011-11-26T12:46:22.501-08:00SF Chronicle: Street Survivor Looks Out for Homeless LGBT Youth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1kel0QWK7T11MnW2SMEzNlZFjLQfzZmcB60kK6Zvv2K76odH0RdWv0D55dB0BkkITpwoAtGJEFjI8em8EXMogQVCx-sgg6jU06t5D50XWWGTdb5d6Ky-5gMJ142NJFkCTafW4Q1dgJbA/s1600/dd-mia25_ph_0504094034.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1kel0QWK7T11MnW2SMEzNlZFjLQfzZmcB60kK6Zvv2K76odH0RdWv0D55dB0BkkITpwoAtGJEFjI8em8EXMogQVCx-sgg6jU06t5D50XWWGTdb5d6Ky-5gMJ142NJFkCTafW4Q1dgJbA/s320/dd-mia25_ph_0504094034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679408546464483250" border="0" /></a>Despite being a star student, Mia Tu Mutch is amazed she survived high school. <div id="bodytext_bottom" class="bodytext bodytext_bottom"><div id="fontprefs_bottom" class="georgia md"> <p>Facing bullying from her classmates, constant thoughts of suicide, rejection from her Southern Baptist parents, and the very real prospect of ending up permanently homeless, she clung to any reason to keep living. </p> <p>"Every day I would say, 'I'm not going to kill myself today. I have a test tomorrow,' " Mia says. </p> <p>Mia is transgender. She became homeless at a young age, but unlike most teens in her position, she was able to pull herself out of it. </p> <p>Considering that she spent the better part of two years without reliable shelter, 20-year-old Mia has built a resume to make any trust-funded Ivy Leaguer blush. </p> <p>She has toured the country to raise awareness of homophobic policies on college campuses. After being severely beaten near the 16th Street BART Station, she spearheaded a rally to reclaim the area as safe space for transgender people. </p> <p>Now that she has secured an apartment, a steady income and a seat on the San Francisco Youth Commission, she is redoubling her efforts to battle the issue that affected her so deeply - LGBT youth homelessness.</p> <p>Before stepping onto a public stage, Mia led a stifled existence in a small Southern town.</p> <p>She began coming out as queer to close friends during her freshman year of high school. While she's been wearing women's clothing since junior high, she didn't begin identifying as transgender until after high school. "I feel like I've always been Mia Tu Mutch, even if I didn't have the name and the wig," she says. "Basically, the whole time that I was getting harassed it was because of my gender, not necessarily who I was having sex with."</p> <p> She never intended to come out to her parents as queer, but their badgering made silence impossible. "My parents forced me out of the closet when I was 17," Mia says. "It was very confrontational, very dramatic and very scary."</p> <p>Mia's parents enrolled her in their church's reparative therapy program. Mia cooperated, but chafed at the "pray-the-gay-away" sessions.</p> <p> "The main reason I was staying was because they were holding college over my head," Mia says. With her solid grade-point average and high-ranking Key Club position, Mia would've been a shoo-in with college admissions officers. </p> <p>"Then they told me, 'We're not giving you any money unless you act straight and act like a man.' So I was like, 'OK, well, I guess that means that I have to leave.' "</p> <p>Mia lived at a friend's place an hour and a half away from school while completing her senior year. She hasn't spoken with her parents since. </p> <p>A staggering number of LGBT youths share Mia's plight. As many as 40 percent of homeless youths identify as LGBT, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. </p> <p>These youths experience a much higher rate of drug addiction, mental illness and sexual abuse than their heterosexual homeless peers. </p> <p>Mia never succumbed to such lows, but when she came to San Francisco at 19 in search of a more accepting environment, she didn't quite find the sanctuary she was looking for. The stigma of her gender identity might have fallen away, but the pressure to conceal her homelessness took its place. </p> <p>Mia made a point of looking as presentable as possible while attending classes at City College, fearing that her classmates might wonder where she had spent the previous night. </p> <p>"I'm sure they had no idea that I was carrying a really big purse because all of my clothes were in there," she says. Hiding in plain sight, queer homeless youths often look just as fashionably put together as any yuppie loft dweller. </p> <p>"It's hard to come out to friends as homeless," Mia says.</p> <p>Finding work proved incredibly difficult during her transitioning process. After six months of job hunting, Mia finally found employment at a Goodwill pop-up in the Castro, the first store of its kind to be staffed entirely by transgender employees. </p> <p>Through this position and persistent volunteering, Mia forged connections within San Francisco's LGBT service provider community. She then landed a job as a program assistant at the San Francisco LGBT Center, where she organized a weekly meal night for local homeless people age 24 and under. Now she works at Lyric, a queer youth center in the Castro.</p> <p>Mia credits Larkin Street Youth Services for helping her when she was struggling to find housing. </p> <p>Larkin is one of the few organizations that cater to the LGBT community. Queer youths are routinely mistreated at most shelters, where gender-segregated dorms and bathrooms can cause confusion. Shelter staffers, many of them religiously affiliated, often aren't prepared or willing to address the needs of transgender youths. </p> <p>As a youth commissioner, Mia wants to make sure the city enforces LGBT sensitivity training at the shelters.</p> <p>Sometimes Mia gets frustrated when important youth issues get drowned out by the storm of debate over hot-button topics like <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/gay-marriage/">gay marriage</a>.</p> <p>"I get really annoyed by the hundreds of millions of dollars that both sides of Prop. 8 have spent," she says. "Trying to pass it, trying to repeal it, trying to get it unre-pealed. I think that everyone should be able to show their love in a way that's equitable, but when we have so many queer homeless youth, I don't think our highest priority should be a piece of paper from the government."</p> <p>Mia thinks that the ultimate responsibility rests with the family when it comes to preventing queer youths from ending up on the streets. "There's still a lot of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/education-guide/">education</a> that needs to be done working with parents," Mia says. "They need to know that kicking their child out because they're queer or trans should not be an option."</p> <p id="pageno"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/25/DDJ11LVJ5G.DTL">This article appeared on page <strong>E - 1</strong> of the San Francisco Chronicle</a></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-8649374399894046352011-11-26T09:39:00.000-08:002011-11-26T09:46:51.664-08:00New York Times: Transgendered and Homeless, Youth Struggles to Build a Life<h6 class="byline">By MERIBAH KNIGHT</h6> <h6 class="dateline">Published: November 26, 2011 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/us/transgendered-and-homeless-youth-struggles-to-build-a-life.html?_r=1&hp">(reposted from this link)</a><br /></h6>Dressed in black baggy jeans, a gray tank top and a Harley Davidson cap skewed backward, Juan Gallaher stood under a cool late-fall drizzle devouring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the Night Ministry’s homeless-youth-outreach van at Belmont Avenue and Halsted Street. <div class="articleInline runaroundLeft"> <div class="inlineImage module"> <div class="image"> <div class="icon enlargeThis"><a><br /></a></div> <a> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/11/27/us/27CNCHOMELESS/27CNCHOMELESS-articleInline.jpg" alt="" height="126" width="190" /> </a> </div> <h6 class="credit">John Konstantaras/Chicago News Cooperative</h6> <p class="caption">Juan Gallaher lost his apartment because he turned 21. </p> </div> <div class="columnGroup doubleRule"><div class="story"> A nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization providing local coverage of Chicago and the surrounding area for The New York Times.</div></div></div><br /><p> It was 8:30 p.m., and Mr. Gallaher was getting his first meal of the day. But he has gone so long and so often without food that hunger is now a faint feeling, he said, though he knows he needs to eat. </p><p> Three weeks earlier, he had turned 21. While that is a happy milestone for most young people, for Mr. Gallaher — a ward of the state since 2006 — it meant he was no longer eligible for services from the Illinois child welfare system. As a result, he lost his apartment and his subsidies. </p><p> “I’ve learned in my life that nothing is stable,” Mr. Gallaher said. So he focuses on the fundamentals: getting a free dinner and finding a place to sleep — maybe under a bridge, in an abandoned house or crowded with other homeless youths on the floor of a friend’s small apartment. </p><p> With a state unemployment rate of 10.1 percent, combined with a lack of affordable housing and shelter beds, an increase in homeless young people in Chicago is putting stress on an overburdened social-support system that is facing deep cuts in budgets and programs. </p><p> Advocates estimate that Chicago has up to 3,000 homeless youths in need of shelter on any given night. But there are just 209 youth shelter beds available citywide — only 5 percent of the approximately 4,000 in the city’s shelters. And with local youth shelters and drop-in centers turning away more young people than ever, providers said, young homeless people are left to navigate for themselves in a system created to meet the needs of adults. </p><p> Homeless youths are in need of nurturing, they are easy targets for crime and abuse, and some are prone to commit crimes. This makes the task of helping them costly and complex. Beyond basic housing, there is a need for services that can help them obtain an education and job skills that could help lead them toward society’s mainstream. </p><p> Mr. Gallaher also is a transgendered person, and a former ward of the state — both of which, studies show, make him far more likely to experience homelessness. </p><p> Experts say that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people make up a disproportionate number of the homeless youth; they represent as much as 40 percent of the national homeless population. </p><p> Many youths with gender-identity issues have been kicked out of their homes or have run away. In Chicago, most flock to Boystown, the magnet for young gay men and lesbians along Halsted Street on the North Side, looking for ad hoc family structures born of the street — street moms, street dads, nieces, nephews, brothers and sisters. Some even call themselves twins. </p><p> <strong>A History of Abuse</strong> </p><p> Mr. Gallaher, the second oldest of 11 children, likes to say he came from “a hole under a rock in the middle of nowhere.” Birth records show he was born in Duplin County, N.C., on Oct. 2, 1990, Paige Francis Gallaher. </p><p> He said he grew up homeless, sleeping in Dumpsters and trees with his older brother and his drug-addicted mother. His tales of abuse are harrowing: rape, beatings, forced prostitution. For years, Mr. Gallaher struggled with his gender identity. Though he was born female, he felt more comfortable wearing boys’ clothes, lifting weights and passing for male. </p><p> To Mr. Gallaher, a male identity was intrinsic. To his family it was “an abomination of nature,” he recalls his mother saying. Eventually they shut him out, and now he has no contact with his siblings or his mother. </p><p> Mr. Gallaher was sent to live with a relative in Illinois, but more abuse and more running away followed, he said. Eventually, records show, the state took custody and placed him in a group home. He bounced around living programs and, still a woman at age 19, gave birth to a daughter.</p><p> In 2010, under the care of the Howard Brown Health Center in Lakeview, Mr. Gallaher began taking hormone injections to make the transition from female to male. Every month he must somehow save the $35 it costs to continue taking them. On Nov. 23, 2010, he officially changed his name from Paige to Juan, records show. In February Mr. Gallaher gave up his daughter for adoption after child services was called when he left her in the care of a friend while he was in the hospital. Mr. Gallaher chose an open adoption, not wanting to place her in the child welfare system where he spent much of his youth. </p>As part of an independent living program, Mr. Gallaher lived in an apartment in Melrose Park. He loved the western suburb so much he named it Hope City. But after aging out of the child welfare system in October he lost the apartment — and was on the streets again. <p> Nearly 40 percent of youths who reach 21 and lose access to <span class="meta-classifier">foster care</span> experience some form of homelessness, according to a 2010 Midwest study by the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Additionally, 2009 data show Illinois with more foster youths aging out than in previous years, up 1.2 percent, while nationally it has gone down by nearly half of 1 percent. </p><p> “As soon as you’re 21, all the support is gone,” said Amy Dworsky, a senior researcher at Chapin Hall. “We live in a place where there is a big shortage of affordable housing, and we know these young people are not earning significant amounts of money. Their options are limited.” </p><p> Chicago, with its big city allure and a continuum of services, attracts runaway and homeless youths. Yet as the population grows, state and federal cuts are hacking away at budgets for outreach organizations. </p><p> A survey released Monday by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless reported that 55 percent of Illinois agencies administering homeless prevention grants said they would run out of money by Dec. 31. Last year, shelter programs in Illinois served 40,542 people, yet people were turned away 45,673 times because of insufficient resources, the survey said. </p><p> In the 2012 state budget, Gov. Pat Quinn approved $4.7 million in cuts, a 52 percent reduction of state outlays for shelters, emergency housing and transportation. Homeless advocates hope to persuade lawmakers to reverse the cuts Tuesday, the final day of this year’s legislative session. </p><p> “We want homeless youth to be heard. Too often they’re invisible,” said Anne Holcomb, a coordinator at the Night Ministry’s Open Door Shelter. “They’re even invisible when it comes to funding.” </p><p> <strong>Making It Work</strong> </p><p> For youths like Mr. Gallaher, the erosion of financing means he has less contact with social workers and spends more time wandering the streets, crashing on couches and fending for himself. He believes he is missing information about jobs, classes or other opportunities that might help him get on his feet. </p><p> Recently, sitting on a mattress on the floor at a friend’s apartment in West Pullman on the South Side, an area he and friends refer to as Ragtown, Mr. Gallaher recited his current motto: “This isn’t the life I want, but it’s the life I’ve got, and I can’t let the life I’ve got kill me before I get the life I want.” </p><p> Mr. Gallaher prides himself on his street savvy. The most prized of his few possessions — which include five decks of magic cards, a utility knife, a Dell computer and an MP3 player — is a fireproof briefcase containing labeled folders filled with resource pamphlets on transportation, housing, mental health, Internet cafes, jobs and food. </p><p> For Boystown’s homeless youth, Mr. Gallaher is a connector of sorts, a liaison between the services offered and the young people who need them. “If you need help,” he said, “you come to me. I’ll tell you where to go to get what you need.” </p><p> But that is getting harder, and Mr. Gallaher can make fewer referrals these days. “With all the budget cuts, there is not as much programming now,” Mr. Gallaher said. “It’s a lot different.” </p><p> On Nov. 16, Mr. Gallaher scraped together enough money to take out his partner — who goes by the name Genesis and like many homeless youths declines to give his full name — to celebrate his 20th birthday at Castle Buffet at Belmont and Kimball. Inside, Genesis, Mr. Gallaher and his two “nephews” declared an eating contest. They piled plates high with fried shrimp, pizza, stir-fry and sweet buns, and ate French fries with chopsticks. Laughing, they set napkins on fire so Genesis could blow them out to make a wish. </p><p> They talked about going to Hope City after dinner, but wound up in Boystown, wandering along Halsted Street and goofing off. Passers-by glared. Some crossed the street. </p><p> But it was too cold to walk all night, and it was too late to get into a nearby shelter. They would head back to the West Pullman apartment. </p><p> Hope City would have to wait. </p><p> “Tomorrow,” said Mr. Gallaher as he walked toward the train, his MP3 player piping Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” into his earphones. “Tomorrow we’ll go to Hope City.” </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458509161114623635.post-5778246734182671772011-11-04T11:18:00.001-07:002011-11-04T11:18:14.308-07:00Thank You: SF CAREA big thank you to our friends at SF CARE for awarding Welcome an $8,000 grant to support the mentoring aspect of our project. Specifically, Welcome will:<br /><br />1) coordinate a monthly training and support group to provide feedback, professional oversight and mentoring opportunities for volunteers working with the homeless in San Francisco. This support group will also train and support a new group of mentors who will support LGBTQ homeless youth. (2011-2013)<br /><br />2) create interactive multimedia trainings and classes featuring the collaborating partners in SF CARE. Talks on deep listening, ethical boundaries, deescalating conflicts, basic training on supporting individuals with chronic mental health issues and the laws and history of homelessness in San Francisco will be taught by the Revs. Megan Rohrer, Dawn Roginski, Lyle Beckmen, Dan Solberg and Valerie McEntee. <br /><br /><br /><br />SF CARE is a collaboration of St. Paulus Lutheran Church, Night Ministry and Welcome, faithful organizations who are working together in order to increase our ability to help the underserved in San Francisco. We are particularly passionate about providing opportunities, resources and support for individuals who are poor, homeless, formerly homeless and experiencing mental health or brain disorder issues.<br /><br />CARE stands for Compassion, Advocacy, Resilience and Education<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/11/04/1889.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/11/04/s_1889.jpg' border='0' width='200' height='174' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />St. Paulus Lutheran Church: We seek to be an inclusive community of God’s diverse people, visible in the world. Like Jesus, we: Care about one another and all creation, Honor the poor, Tell the truth to ourselves and others in love, Encourage justice and show mercy. <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/11/04/1890.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/11/04/s_1890.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='60' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />The San Francisco Night Ministry provides middle-of-the-night compassionate non-judgmental pastoral care, counseling, referral and crisis intervention to anyone in any kind of distress. Through our Crisis Telephone Line staffed by trained volunteer Crisis Line Counselors; and through person-to-person encounters with ordained clergy on the streets, this ministry is available every night of the year from 10:00 pm - 4:00 am.<br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/11/04/1891.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/11/04/s_1891.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='160' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Welcome seeks to provide a faithful response to poverty and to improve the quality of life for individuals in our community by providing: hospitality; education; food; and referrals for housing, health care and drug and alcohol treatment. Programs: Welcome Center, Project Faith Connect, Vanguard Revisited, Somatic Trauma Care, Saturday Community Dinners, Urban Share Community Gardening, and The Free Farm<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0