In wake of the Trump Administration’s announcement today of so-called ‘religious freedom’ regulations impacting vital social service provisions at the departments of Agriculture; Education; Health and Human Services; Homeland Security; Housing and Urban Development; Justice; Labor; USAID; and the Veterans Administration, the Los Angeles LGBT Center issued the following statement: “The Trump Administration today released regulations that allow faith-based organizations to discriminate against members of the LGBT community when they seek vital and life-saving social services programs. These regulations span a variety of federal departments including Labor, Education, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs. The Administration’s thinly disguised effort to remove…
Author: Kelly Freter
Thanks to all of our Senior Services clients who helped us celebrate the holiday season!
Thank you to the Circle of Life members who joined us to help celebrate the holiday season! Every Circle of Life member has included the Center in their estate plans or by making another type of planned gift, ensuring a strong future for the organization and creating a legacy of hope for the most vulnerable members of our community. Learn more at legacy.lalgbtcenter.org
Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers for the work you do throughout the year and for joining us for this special volunteer appreciation event! (Please note: volunteers who worked 50 or more hours during 2019 were invited this event; an all-volunteer appreciation event will be held in Spring 2020.)
We had a blast at our brand-building Young Professional Council panel featuring Laith Ashley, AmbersCloset, Amanda-Faye Jimenez, and moderator Andy Eninger.
The panel explored the attitudes, changes, and landmarks in the theatrical portrayals of the LGBT community from the late 1960s through present day. It featured: Writer, Actor, Director, Producer Adelina Anthony; Curator, Producer, Playwright, Filmmaker, Actor Leo Garcia; Vice President, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center Alison De La Cruz; Artistic Director, Celebration Theatre Michael A. Shepperd; and Moderator Jon Imparato Director, Cultural Arts, Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Thank you to everyone—prospective employees and employers alike—who joined us for our 11th annual job and resource fair hosted by the Center’s Transgender Economic Empowerment Project (TEEP) in partnership with programmatic funders City of West Hollywood and Citi Community Development, as well as community partners Trans Can Work, JVS SoCal, and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
We had a great time grooving and being spooky at our Senior Services Halloween Bash! Happy Halloween!
John Platania and Lillene Fifield—two pivotal figures from the early days of the Los Angeles LGBT Center—took the stage at the Greek Theatre during the Center’s 50th Anniversary Hearts of Gold concert to connect today’s Center with the one they helped shape decades ago. Founding board member Platania was first to put the key in the door when the Gay Community Services Center, as the organization was named then, opened its first headquarters in a run-down Victorian house on Wilshire Boulevard in October 1971. Early services including legal help to anti-Vietnam War protesters, peer rap groups, and STD testing and treatment.…
Los Angeles LGBT Center staffers were among those selected to ask questions to Democratic Presidential hopefuls during CNN’s Equality Town Hall in Los Angeles on October 10. National Community Center Policy Manager Tanya Tassi asked Senator Kamala Harris what protections she would put in place to ensure a discrimination-free environment in the workplace. “How can we ever defend that our LGBTQ brother and sisters are treated differently under the law when they walk into their place of work?” Harris replied. “It’s a fundamental issue as far as I’m concerned. I will stand and fight for equality every day of the…