2020 EXECUTIVE TEAM LIST Lorri L. Jean CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Darrel Cummings LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER CHIEF OF STAFF 2020 SENIOR EXECUTIVE TEAM Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed and Alan Acosta DIRECTOR OF celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today the STRATEGIC INITIATIVES Center’s nearly 800 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any Sharon-Franklin Brown DIRECTOR OF other organization in the world, offering programs, services and global advocacy HUMAN RESOURCES that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Ricardo DeLeon Education, Leadership and Advocacy. We are an unstoppable force in the fight Mike Holtzman CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world; a world in which LGBT Calen D.B. Ouellette people can be healthy, equal and complete members of society. Learn more at CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER lalgbtcenter.org. Kari Pacheco CO-DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES

Terra Russell Slavin MISSION STATEMENT DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND COMMUNITY BUILDING

The Los Angeles LGBT Center is building a world where LGBT people thrive 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS as healthy, equal and complete members of society. David J. Bailey CO-CHAIR

We Value: Susan Feniger CO-CHAIR RESPECT Tess Ayers We provide a workplace and service environment where individuality is seen as SECRETARY strength and all people are treated with fairness and dignity. Amy Gordon Yanow TREASURER EXCELLENCE Karim Abay We dedicate ourselves to the highest quality in all our programs and services, and James Alva seek employees and volunteers who have a passion for LuAnn Boylan helping others. Tad Brown Sarah Dusseault INCLUSIVENESS Carolyn A. Dye We believe in the need for different perspectives and commit ourselves to Alfred Fraijo, Jr. Annie Imhoff representation from all members of our diverse community. Marki J. Knox, M.D. INNOVATION Michael Lombardo Carlos Medina We vigorously support pioneering programs and advocacy to meet Lucinda Moorhead community needs. Michael Mueller Michael Ormonde INTEGRITY Loren S. Ostrow We work together to advance the Center’s mission, and we honor and Jayzen Patria Frank Pond apply these values in what we do and say. Don Thomas 2 0 2 0 Your ongoing support of the Center's work to build a world where LGBT people thrive The 5,500-square-foot community space located on W. Martin Luther as healthy, equal, and complete King Jr. Blvd. near Leimert Park opened in January. The grand opening members of society was more community celebration featured remarks by local leaders. Following the ribbon cutting ceremony, hundreds of guests toured the facility critical than ever this year. and reveled in the daylong festivity which included food, refreshments, giveaways, a resource fair, and entertainment.

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The fourth annual Black History Month event drew a record crowd The Center’s Policy & Community Building team of more than 400 people and led our voter registration and education efforts included keynote speaker Yazmin throughout 2020. Resistance Squad volunteers Monet Watkins, award presenta- made thousands of phone calls to help turn tions, live performances, fashion out the vote, while the Center’s voter education show, art exhibit, resource fair, campaign included Proposition recommendations, sit-down dinner, and dancing. party platform analysis, voter registration information, and informa- tion about how to vote safely during COVID-19. A virtual community conversation was held the night after the Presidential election in November featuring Center CEO Lorri L. Jean, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, Founder of the Black AIDS Institute Phill Wilson, and Center Federal Advocate Dan Maldonado. FAB FIVE U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff joined Two of the Center’s ten locations— members of the Center’s Center WeHo in West Hollywood and community for a special virtual Mi Centro, the Center’s partnership conversation in April. Leading location with Latino Equality Alliance up to the November election, in Boyle Heights—celebrated their Developed and launched the Policy & Community fifth anniversaries in October. through a coordinated effort of Building team hosted a panel of staff from across the Center, grassroots community leaders Pride Pantry helps meet discussing the intersection of A critical virtual conversation in the needs of community racial justice and LGBTQ issues October featured providers of members experiencing food on the ballot. trans-related services through- insecurity as a result of the out Southern California as a call COVID-19 pandemic. The Pantry to action to stop the violence To help keep the community up to distributes food directly from against the trans community. date on changes to programs and the Anita May Rosenstein The more than three dozen services in response to COVID-19, Campus, Mi Centro, and Center homicides of trans and gender the Center launched a month-long South locations along with tual nonconforming people reported Vir daily news show streamed on social supplying food for seniors at in the United States make this media featuring critical updates Triangle Square and for delivery year the deadliest on record. from Center staff members. through Senior Angels.

Located at the Center’s flagship Anita May Rosenstein Campus, the Liberation Coffee House opened in August. The 1,600-square-foot FALL/WINTER 2020 | café and community space is operated and staffed by graduates Launched in October and presented by AIDS/LifeCycle, the ride-at-your-own- of the intergenerational Culinary pace event for cyclists of all ages and abilities will raise critical funds for the Arts program. Revenue from Center’s HIV and AIDS related services and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. VANGUARD this unique social enterprise is Participants have until June 2021 to complete their collective 1.2 million miles, 32 reinvested into the Center. representing the 1.2 million people in the U.S. living with HIV and AIDS. With the 545-mile ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles postponed for the first time in history due to COVID-19 safety precautions, AIDS/LifeCycle@HOME featured a week of virtual events to celebrate the spirit of community and philanthropy for the 3,000+ Presented by The Ariadne Getty Foundation, the participants who had registered for this year’s Center’s first-ever telethon aired live on KTLA 5 and physical ride. Participants raised an amazing $8.1 streamed online with hosts Jane Lynch and KTLA 5 million benefiting San Francisco AIDS Foundation and news anchor Cher Calvin. Featuring performances the HIV/AIDS-related services of the Center. The Center’s 28th annual Models of and appearances by a roster of A-list entertainers, the Pride conference for LGBTQ youth two-hour show raised nearly $1.3M for the Center’s vital and their allies streamed virtu- programs and services during COVID-19. ally over two days in November. Organized by the Center’s Youth CEO SEARCH Development program, the confer- ence included an Opening Session, In June the Center launched Led by the Policy & Community Building team, the Entertainment Hour, and more than the search for a Center’s outreach and education campaign worked 25 workshops and presentations. successor to CEO to ensure everyone was counted as part of the The Parent & Professional Institute Lorri L. Jean, who 2020 Census. track included online workshops will retire in July tailored for adults to better serve 2022. In an unprec- edented process, More than 50 and care for LGBTQ youth. The two-hour event streamed the new candidate TEAM members live on the Center’s Facebook, will start in May helped raise 2021 as Executive YouTube, and Twitch channels with $36,000 to Director and will unforgettable performances and support the work with Jean appearances by some of the Center’s and senior staff to Center for The most talented supporters. Hosted assure a smooth Big 5K during by Frankie Grande, it raised nearly transition before the LA Marathon assuming the role $60,000 to support the Center’s in March. of CEO in July 2022. COVID-19 response CARE Fund. This year’s Senior Services Thousands tuned in for the first-ever two- Prom went virtual, day virtual event, which is one of the nation’s welcoming hundreds of oldest and largest celebrations of the vibrant clients to an online dance Trans/Gender Non-Conforming/Non-Binary party, complete with a (Trans/GNC/ENBY) community. Kicking off with DJ and hostess Little Miss a Big Queer Convo featuring Isis King and Hot Mess. Alexandra Billings, the event included virtual workshops, panel discussions, art exhibit, and the fan-favorite VarieTy Show.

Launched in conjunction with the Hello Club by the Center’s Senior Services and Volunteer Resources teams, the Senior Angels program The Center’s Volunteer provides food and other Resources and Senior In celebration of National essentials to seniors Services staff created the Coming Out Day and the film’s through safe, contact- Hello Club to help connect The Center’s innovative new live Garage Theatre 20th anniversary, the Center and less delivery throughout with seniors isolated at GIVING series kicked off with MARCH, a suspenseful, stark- Lionsgate presented a drive-in Los Angeles. home during the COVID-19 | ly political drama of peril and liberation conceived rooftop screening of the cult pandemic. Dozens of volun- and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera. Performances classic But I’m a Cheerleader at teers regularly call a roster took place in the underground parking structure the parking garage behind the of more than 2,600 senior VANGUARD located below the Center’s Anita May Rosenstein Cinerama Dome and ArcLight clients to check in on them Campus. Hollywood. and to assess their needs. 33 A selection of Center stories from 2020. Read more at LGBTNewsNow.org

• JANUARY 2020 • CENTER SOUTH OPENS WITH EMOTIONAL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

efore a crowd of nearly 250 spectators, case management, mental health services, All the programs and services at the Center Ryan Wooten bravely shared why the Los CyberCenter computer lab, drop-in safe space, South location will be provided for free or at BAngeles LGBT Center’s first-ever expansion and more. low cost to everyone, with a focus on serving the needs of young gay and bisexual men of color into South Los Angeles means so much to so “Today is the realization of a dream of many ages 12 to 29. many people. years, but today is just the beginning,” Center “A center here in this location means CEO Lorri L. Jean said in her remarks. “By working The Center received grant support from Los accessibility. It means representation. It means together with our partner organizations and local Angeles County and has teamed with local community,” he said at the January 11 grand community leaders, I have no doubt that, together, organizations Bienestar Human Services, Black opening of Center South. we’ll ensure that Center South becomes a vibrant, AIDS Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, vital, and beloved part of our South Los Angeles and The Wall Las Memorias Project to address When he was younger and diagnosed with community.” the societal and health needs of LGBT people of HIV, Wooten explained, he would have to take color living in South Los Angeles. two busses and a train to travel to the Center’s The Leimert Park location is the latest step in McDonald-Wright Building in Hollywood for the Center’s long-term strategic plan approved by “The County agreed to fund a new location treatment. its Board of Directors in 2008 after a community in South L.A. where we could focus on HIV survey of thousands of people. The plan focuses prevention, testing, and treatment among gay “I remember being on the train. I remember on how to best meet the needs of the LGBT com- and bisexual men of color,” Jean explained. “But being nervous. I remember having symptoms. munity moving forward which includes expanding we knew that we wanted—and we needed—to I remember all of those things,” he recalled. “I Center services to a much wider geographical do much more than that. We wanted this to be hated it. I’d be thinking, ‘Why isn’t there a place area. Just over four years ago, the Center opened a mini service center, a gathering place for all to go in this [South L.A.] neighborhood?’” Mi Centro in Boyle Heights in partnership with LGBT people in the area. So we’ve been raising Programs and services at the 5,500-square- the Latino Equality Alliance, and in 2018, opened money to add to what the county is giving us so foot facility near Leimert Park will include HIV the Trans Wellness Center in Koreatown with a we could get a bigger space and create this testing, access to PrEP and PEP services, housing handful of partners. wonderful location.” the Center’s community engagement manager for Health Services. “There are out, proud queer people in these communities who have amazing lives, and now they have something here that they can adopt and make their own—a safe space for queer people of color.” Center South is housed in a space once owned by actress Marla Gibbs (The Jeffersons, 227) who for nearly 20 years operated a jazz supper club called Marla’s Memory Lane. “[This was a] place where [Gibbs] trained African American actors, writers, and directors to go on,” Los Angeles City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson said. “It is the spirit of activism that is in the very bones and the cement and all the wood and all the materials—activism and resistance is in the very essence of where you are Mario J. Pérez, director of the Los Angeles “I saw my first patient in 1979,” he said after today.” County Department of Public Health – Division of receiving commendations from the Center and Jeanette Bronson, who lives in the neighbor- HIV and STD Programs, was credited by Jean as the City. “I didn’t know what he had. I think the hood and is chair of Black Lesbians United, was a longtime ally who worked hard to steer money hardest thing was seeing a young man in the 80s among the volunteers giving tours at the opening. and resources to the area and to the Center and 90s because, in my mind, I would wonder, “This is Marla Gibbs’ old place and that South project. ‘What is he going to look like a year from now?’ makes it even better,” she said. “I was so sad and ‘Will he still be alive two years from now?’ “I grew up a mile and a half from here so when it closed, but I’m so happy to see it repur- So we have come a long way.” this is a homecoming for me in many ways,” posed. It’s a huge occasion and truly exciting. Perez said from the podium. “This opening is a Jordan pointed out that patients once had to It makes you feel not only represented, but also culmination of visioning, planning, negotiating, take dozens of pills a day to stay alive and now feel the general community cares for us as well. physical reshaping, and rebuilding.” a single dose of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) People were always running off to Hollywood daily can help prevent infection. Dr. Wilbert C. Jordan, founder of the Oasis or West Hollywood to get services—or not Clinic, was recognized at the opening for his Center staff member Paul Chavez could going at all.” • four decades of work on the frontlines of HIV barely contain his emotions as festivities for the and AIDS in South L.A. before the epidemic was opening got underway. Center South is located at 2313 W. Martin Luther identified by the Centers for Disease Control in “I’m from L.A., and I’ve been waiting my King Jr. Blvd. 1981. whole life to see something like this,” said Chavez,

• APRIL 2020 • WE ARE AN ORGANIZATION THAT KNOWS HOW TO REINVENT ITSELF

he COVID-19 outbreak may be changing said Center Chief of Staff Darrel Cummings During the call, Cummings connected the the way the Los Angeles LGBT Center during a recent town hall meeting with the organization’s responsive shift to COVID-19 to Toffers many of its services and programs, organization’s sustaining donors. lessons learned during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 90s. but the Center remains open and committed to Precautions are being taken for clients serving those in need. coming to Center locations for health, senior, “I am drawing on those experiences every “It’s extremely important for those who rely and youth services. Many other programs and day. We had to learn day by day, hour by on our services every single day that we stay services, including Senior Services activities, hour, and adjust the kinds of programs we were open, but we knew we were going to have to Trans* Lounge groups, and youth mentoring are doing and add new ones to meet the commu- reinvent how we deliver a lot of our services,” now happening virtually. nity’s changing needs,” Cummings said. “We ment for youth without housing have moved from the Youth Center to The Village at Ed Gould Plaza’s courtyard located across the street. They can get something to eat there, use the restrooms, charge their devices, and connect with one another from a safe distance. The Youth Center is now only used by the 100 or so youth in the Center’s residential programs to spend time, have meals, and participate in socially distanced activities. “The young people we work with have adjusted to this new reality in ways that we think helps protect everybody. Everyone is in masks, and we are taking all the precautions that [the county department of]public health would suggest that we do,” Cummings said.

FUNDRAISING GOES VIRTUAL AIDS/LifeCycle—the seven-day, 545-mile event scheduled for May 31 to June 6—raises critical support for the Center’s HIV and AIDS- are an organization that knows how to reinvent MEALS AND WELLNESS related services along with the San Francisco itself. As a community, we will get through this CHECKS FOR SENIORS AIDS Foundation has been canceled. and get to a better time.” In the past year, senior clients were served In order to maintain the current level of HIV a hot lunch provided by the Center’s Culinary and AIDS services provided to the community, TELEHEALTH TECHNOLOGY Arts program and could participate in other both organizations have set a joint fundraising STRENGTHENS HEALTH SERVICES’ programs and activities at the Harry & Jeanette goal of $13 million—of which more than $6.5 PRE-COVID-19 CAPACITY Weinberg Senior Center on the Anita May million has already been raised by the ride’s Rosenstein Campus. participants through the innovative My 545 The Center is one of the nation’s few challenge. Instead of actually riding a bike The Senior Center is now closed for activities, Federally Qualified Health Centers with provid- outdoors, the virtual campaign gives people but boxed lunches are available for pickup each ers who specialize in care for LGBTQ people. the opportunity to take on a different physical day. Several classes are now also available Normally, hundreds of people a day get health challenge of their choosing within the parame- online, and staff members and volunteers are care inside the organization’s bustling four-story ters of social distancing and sheltering in place. McDonald/Wright Building, which includes a calling clients at home to find out if the Center can pharmacy. help them with any special needs. “We really need to keep people fundrais- ing to provide for the services,” Cummings said. “For our seniors, isolation is one of the In order to reduce that number under “AIDS/LifeCycle is a multimillion-dollar event. worst things that they can experience,” COVID-19, the Center’s Health Services and We’re trying to do the best we can to recover Cummings pointed out. “They have been really Information Technology teams collaborated to as much of the fundraising dollars as possible appreciative of receiving that phone call and put in place a telehealth platform that allows and help people feel connected to the cause.” a vast majority of routine appointments to take getting the help we’re able to provide.” The Center has also set up a CARE Fund place via telephone or online. Less traffic in the Meal service at the Center’s Triangle to streamline donations to the Center’s critical building helps keep everyone safe. Square affordable senior housing is now de- programs and services. Support for the CARE livered to the residents’ apartments daily. Staff “Telehealth options are helping ensure that Fund is coming through direct donations as and volunteers are also picking up groceries we can stay open for those people who need well as several virtual mini-events listed on the and medications. to see a care provider in person,” Cummings Center’s calendar. said. HELPING YOUTH CLIENTS Despite all of the Center’s fundamental All clients must make an appointment to changes, cancellations, and postponements enter the building; walk-ins are no longer Before COVID-19, the youth drop-in center due to the pandemic, Cummings assured allowed. The Center’s pharmacy remains at the Campus could sometimes have as many donors of one major revelation at the end of open Monday through Saturday for in-person as 120 youth inside at one time having meals, his hourlong address: “We are here for our transactions, but clients are encouraged to use meeting with case managers, or just hanging out. community. We will be here for our community. the Center’s free delivery service. Now, drop-in services and case manage- We will stay open.” • been highjacked by people capitalizing on the unrest for their own ends. We know that some of these individuals, in fact, hope to stoke racist beliefs and actions precisely to undermine the efforts to achieve justice for African Americans and other marginalized people. In light of all this, we want to underscore how important it is that we take care of each other. And while these are difficult days for all of us, we should all be especially mindful of the pain and stress African Americans are experiencing during this time. In this moment, we need to see beyond our own pain and put ourselves in the shoes of those who are most • June 2020 • deeply affected. Our community has faced brutal repression BLACK LIVES MATTER and injustice in the past, and we have survived, in part, by the kindness and care we have shown he institutional racism and violence that law enforcement against people of color, and to one another. We should all be especially kind we’ve seen over the last few weeks is in particular African Americans. Others of you and caring to each other in the coming days. not new, but the brazen way it has been have raised your voices to elected leaders, T At the same time, the Center calls on all of exposed has no doubt taken a toll on all of us. friends, and family members. us in the LGBTQ community and our allies to Many of you have participated in And yet, in spite of these efforts, we find continue the fight for an end to the systems of demonstrations over the weekend that brought ourselves no less troubled today, in part be- oppression and inequality that have such a cruel attention to this systemic use of violence by cause these legitimate, peaceful protests have and dehumanizing impact on every one of us. •

• AUGUST 2020 • COFFEE, TEA, AND LIBERATION! THE CENTER’S CAFÉ OPENS ITS DOORS TO AN ENTHUSIASTIC PUBLIC

delighted Lina Noel happened upon one hand and a bag with sandwiches and chips take it back home.” Liberation Coffee House on the northeast in the other. “It’s a very easy way to help. That’s Located at the Center’s flagship Anita May Acorner of Santa Monica Boulevard and how you build more community, and that’s how Rosenstein Campus, the 1,600-square-foot coffee McCadden Place completely by random—on the you help people who need help. I will be back house is a unique social enterprise that will have café’s grand opening day. all the time.” its revenue reinvested into the Center’s life-chang- “We were looking for coffee, thought Another customer, Rick Llanos, heard about ing and life-saving programs and services. A this place looked great, and just walked in,” the opening and decided to head over from Lake socially-distanced line funnels customers through explained Noel, who moved to Los Angeles from Hollywood to check things out. He walked out one door and out another, giving them a good New York just weeks ago. with a bag filled with sandwiches, croissants, and look at the vibrant interior space which they will cookies. be able to fully enjoy once it is safe to do so. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandem- ic, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new retail café “I got a little bit of everything so I’ll be happy “We want to showcase the space and have opened its doors on August 17 with little fanfare for awhile,” he said, smiling. “A friend of mine told people see it as opposed to just serving them at yet the first-day customers were enthusiastic about me about it and said, if I need some lunch and the door,” said Center Manager of Café and the food and the cause. want to come out and support the cause, to come Catering Erin Muscatelli. on down. So, I did. It’s a good way to support “They told me this benefits the Center, and The café serves Verve Coffee, Rishi Tea, and the Center, a nice way to help out. It will be even I’m so happy to hear that. So happy to help in pastries from locally-owned Bakers Kneaded. The nicer when (post-pandemic) you can sit down this way,” Noel said as she held a cappuccino in menu of hot and cold sandwiches, flatbreads, and actually enjoy the lunch instead of having to and face coverings are being enforced for all café team members and customers. “We want to keep the space open despite the challenges and circumstances, keep our staff employed, and serve the community as best we can,” said Muscatelli. After purchasing a chocolate croissant and an iced caffè macchiato, customer Steven Halling took a moment to take in the café’s décor, a palette of red, orange, yellow, and green. “It’s super cute—I love all the plants,” Halling said. “I think it will be a nice place for people to hang out. And it’s connected to the Center with all its other cool things.” salads, breakfast burritos, various bowls, and it as “breathtaking” to be working each day in other gourmet grab-and-go food items are made an atmosphere that is diverse and welcoming. Historical black and white photographs entirely by students of the Center’s intergeneration- In just three years, the 24-year-old went from adorn the walls of the café including the first al Culinary Arts program, a three-month training experiencing homelessness to getting into the “Liberation House” opened in 1971 by the program launched last year to prepare the Center’s Transitional Living Program to renting his Center, known then as the Gay Community Center’s LGBTQ youth and seniors for employ- own apartment and graduating from the Culinary Services Center. ment in the restaurant and hospitality industries. Arts program in July. Liberation Houses provided room and board Liberation Coffee House is staffed and “When I got the job offer, I was shocked,” for $1.50 a day for homeless LGBTQ youth operated by graduates of the program including he admitted. “I was working really hard to prove and adults. It was the nation’s first facility of its 56-year-old Gio Bertuccelli who could not hide not only to myself but to the teachers and to the kind. By 1972, six Liberation Houses were open her joy over being a part of the new venture. Center that their time invested in me was well throughout Los Angeles. worth it. For me to actually be working for the “I am a middle-aged trans woman, and “It’s liberation for a new generation at the Center instead of using their resources, it proves I the opportunity to be on the ground level at the Center,” said Nick Panepinto, the Center’s took heed to what people were saying and did opening of this amazing new experience was like director of culinary training and operations. the best I could to make the right decisions.” a eureka moment,” Bertuccelli said. “The coffee “Everyone has been wondering what this emp- house is more than a great place to get great For now, food and beverage items are only ty space was going to transformed into, and coffee and pastries. It’s a hub. It’s a beam of available “to go” due to the pandemic. Safety the vision has finally been realized. It’s the first beauty and love coming out of our community like precautions have been implemented, such as time the community is able to interact with the open arms stretching out. I grew up around coffee plexiglass windows at the ordering counter, Center on a daily basis—actually just coming houses in Italy, we call them café bars. I just love hand sanitizers and disinfecting wipes, cashless in for your morning coffee. We’re excited that the environment.” payments by way of credit and debit cards, and this brings our Center into the community on a the closure of indoor seating. Social distancing whole new level!” • Another café team member, Tryron, described

• AUGUST 2020 • HOW ‘ANGELS’ ARE TAKING CARE OF LOCAL SENIORS re-pandemic, the community room of the filling bags with groceries and other supplies that being personally dropped off to those in need. Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Triangle Square were to be delivered to senior clients. “I was looking for ways to remind myself Psenior housing complex would typically be “Did you ever work in a grocery store?” that there’s a community out here while we’re all filled with residents sharing a meal, watching a Driscoll asked Utzman. “I’m trying to pack bags in quarantine,” she says. “It can be easy to stay movie, or playing a game. like you would at a grocery store.” in your own bubble when there’s a lot of need out here. It’s really rewarding to have a hand in On a recent weekday morning, the only They are among the 60-plus volunteers who feeding people and making their day and week people inside the large room—now headquarters are the backbone of the Center’s Senior Angels a little easier.” for Senior Pride Pantry—were volunteers Patrick program, an emergency delivery system that has Driscoll and Morgyn Utzman who were busy been responsible for more than 1,000 packages Tables inside the community room are stacked Volunteer Barbara Friend praises the safe way the program is operated: “You call them at a social distance, pack groceries at a social distance, you drop off the groceries at a social distance. I love that there are so many opportu- nities to help in a safe and healthy way. You can just tell every time you drop groceries off that you have made someone’s day.”

SENIOR CLIENTS ARE GRATEFUL When the pandemic began, senior client Shannon Gosch couldn’t leave her apartment with cans of pantry staples including tuna, soup, Senior Angels works in concert with the even if she wanted to. She had recently had an beans, tomato sauce, and fruit cocktail as well as Center’s Hello Club in which an army of operation and was out of commission. jars of peanut butter, bottles of Ensure and Boost volunteers regularly call a roster of more than “I got a call from a volunteer who wanted nutritional shakes, cartons of almond milk, and 2,600 seniors to check in on them and to assess to know if I needed anything. Then, the next cups of instant ramen noodles. their needs. day a fellow called to go over my requests. He There is also an assortment of pet food, bars Both programs were launched by the ended the call by saying, ‘Have a beautiful day, of soap, laundry detergent, toilet paper, paper Center’s Volunteer Resources and Senior Shannon,’” she recalls. “There are lovely people towels, and disposable masks. Services staff in the early days of the pandemic running the whole program—it’s just amazing. after in-person programs and activities had to be They are very attentive.” “The Angels are driving to Triangle Square suspended. and packaging items, which often include Gosch said “a sweet delivery guy” dropped handwritten notes, and baked goods and then “I was thinking all night, every night, about off the food and supplies a few days later. The deliver those packages within 48 hours of a our seniors,” shares Kiera Pollock, director of box included some things she did not expect: requested need,” explains the Center’s Director of Senior Services. “Seniors in general are very homemade cookies, a mask, and a “Love is Community Engagement Rani DeMesme-Anders. isolated. Our seniors are even more isolated and Universal” bumper sticker. “These are volunteers who have really stepped typically don’t reach out to non-LGBT organiza- “I live in Alhambra, and it is amazing they up as first responders.” tions. Unless we jumped in, they weren’t going to will bring me things—even food for my cats Bala have other kinds of connection.” Among the dedicated volunteers making and Rama,” she shares. “I was so blown away deliveries each week is Andy Perez whose public Pollock points out that 21% of seniors were to also get a handwritten note that said ‘We’re relations work dried up during the pandemic. experiencing food insecurity before the pandemic. all in this together.’” “The Center pulled this together so quickly “Folks have far less resources than they did Another senior, Martha Avalos, has been and is right there with a lifeline for the senior citi- before, and the cost of food has not gone down,” housebound in her North Hollywood duplex zens—getting fresh produce, dry goods, toiletries, she explains. “Many of our seniors were living during the pandemic. She’s disabled with cleaning supplies,” Perez says. “When you meet week-to-week with groceries. They were running diabetes and is hesitant to go out. these people and bring them their groceries, they around to discount stores and farmers markets to “The deliveries have been really good,” are awash with relief because they are being get the best deals, and they can’t do that right she says. “I’ve received bags filled with things cared for.” now. It’s really important that we supplement like beans, canned food, fresh produce, and these things as we are moving toward what is He adds: “This is a point in our history where orange juice, as well as supplies I really needed looking to be a much longer pandemic.” we all need to come together, especially for including toilet paper, masks, and soap. It was the most vulnerable in our community, so getting Stephanie Harris, Senior Services activities really, really good. They have been really, really involved with Senior Angels was a no-brainer for coordinator and manager of the pantry, has en- nice and very helpful.” me. To be able to talk to people and see what countered seniors crying on the phone because In a thank you letter to Senior Services, a kinds of things they need—groceries, cleaning they are stressed at the prospect of having to go grateful Sydney Bristow uses adjectives like supplies, or toiletries—and bringing them to their out into the world to shop. “uplifting” and “life-affirming” to describe his doors is just an amazing experience.” “They are acutely aware of their risk level feelings about the Senior Angels program. during this time,” she says. “We really want peo- “The e-mail exchanges, seeing these volun- SAFETY IS PRIORITY ple to stay home and stay safe, especially since teers, and receiving a small note which more so many folks whom we serve are in that high risk or less says ‘you matter’ can do wonders for Contactless delivery has helped to keep category to become immunocompromised. It’s someone who lives alone and gets really lonely Center clients safe during the COVID-19 really imperative that they stay home. We want and depressed. I am more than grateful.” • pandemic and has offset some of their financial to help make that as easy for them as possible.” burden during this difficult time. • SEPTEMBER 2020 • CENTER’S STAR-STUDDED “LOVE IN ACTION” TELETHON NEARING $1.3 MILLION IN COVID-19 RESPONSE SUPPORT idway through the September 12 KTLA 5 News anchor Cher Calvin, who shared alum Shangela, and Star Trek: Discovery co-stars Love in Action telethon benefiting the with viewers that her father Roger Calvin, a former Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz, who portray a MLos Angeles LGBT Center, co-host movie star in the Philippines, came out as a gay gay couple on the hit science-fiction show. Jane Lynch told KTLA 5 and livestream viewers man when she was 18. Although her father was a Appearing from Canada, lang joked with worldwide that she had a feeling in her bones. big fan, it was her mother who insisted on naming the co-hosts about how her concerts during the her Cher after the famous singer and actress. “I just know we’re going to exceed our $1 1990s “were the first Tinder.” She also spoke million goal tonight,” predicted the five-time Emmy Then that Cher (the Oscar-Grammy- about coming out publicly then and continuing to winning actress and TV game show host. Emmy-winning icon) helped kick things off by raise awareness today. asking people to donate, calling the Center “an Lynch was absolutely correct. “I think it’s important that we don’t go unstoppable force in fighting bigotry for a better backwards. It’s important that we stay focused,” By the end of the incredible two-hour show world. We need this desperately right now.” lang said. “I think that’s why the Center is so very a total of $1,273,063 had been raised for the Love in Action was presented by The Ariadne important because it is an extremely eclectic Center’s vital programs and services which have Getty Foundation. community—senior and youth and everything in been in more demand since the start of the between. It really is the vortex of the community COVID-19 pandemic. As of Tuesday, the Center “Because both of my children, Nats and and has been for 51 years. It is immeasurably confirms donations were still coming in with a final August, are part of the LGBT community, it should important to offer a community for the disenfran- total that could exceed the $1.3 million mark. surprise no one that much of my work focuses on chised.” LGBT causes,” Getty told viewers. “I’ve been a Lynch, a former member of the Center’s strong supporter of the Center for the past five During his segment with Rapp, Cruz echoed Board of Directors, described the organization as years. The Center has continued to be a safe that sentiment: “I feel the Center is like a starship. “the model for centers around the world. It’s an haven for all those who show up at its doorstep It is inhabited by these amazing, genius people amazing place which is why I love it so much. The and call out for help.” who come together to save a community, and depth and the breadth of programs and services I’m inspired by the work that the Center has done really blows me away. It’s like 12 non-profits Throughout the show, Lynch and Calvin throughout my entire life as an inhabitant of L.A. under one roof.” conducted live interviews with Center CEO Lorri They have been here for me my entire adult life, L. Jean, singer k.d. lang, RuPaul’s Drag Race The Glee alum co-hosted the live show with and I couldn’t love them more.” DJ Pierce, aka Shangela, recalled how clients, included Sia, Alexandra Billings, Billy tough, and uncompromising telephone operator actress Jenifer Lewis introduced him to the Center Porter, Billy Eichner, Frankie Grande, Meredith Ernestine. when he was working as her assistant. Vieira, Carla Gugino, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, According to the skit, Ernestine had left the Margaret Cho, Peter Paige, Gigi Gorgeous, Nats “I saw the dedication she had to the Center telephone company and was an out lesbian Getty, August Getty, Coco Peru, Jay Leno, Bruce and the belief she had in what they were doing,” helping out at the Center nowadays. Vilanch, RuPaul, Pauley Perrette, Tyler Oakley, and said Pierce, who video conferenced from Texas. “I Andrew Rannells. “A gracious hello. This is the LGBT Center. took a stand-up comedy class at the Center. It led We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it,” chuckled me to the Comedy Store on Sunset to all around Leno told a touching story from his childhood Ernestine with her classic snort. “No, I don’t usu- the world.” about why his father would always insist he wear ally answer the phones here. I heard the Center a jacket and tie whenever the family went out to U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, the first openly was in additional need during the pandemic so, dinner. LGBT woman elected to the nation’s Senate, heroically, I stepped forward to man the boards. called the Center’s work “pivotal in changing the “My dad would always say, ‘We want to … Yes, I’m out and proud … spoken with pride world around us.” show that we’re proud,’” Leno recalled. “To this and nothing to hide.” day, whenever I watch a civil rights march or a “Right now, in the challenging times that we Love in Action also featured powerful musical gay pride parade or any kind of protest, I always face with COVID,-19 we recognize that the need performances by Leslie Odom Jr., Trans Chorus of look at the faces of people and see that same for the Center’s services are only growing,” she Los Angeles, Tonality, and Jenifer Lewis. expression my dad had when he talked about pointed out. “I want to thank the Center for a being proud. Fight the good fight my dad used to Grammy Award-winner Cyndi Lauper half-century of advocacy, support, and resources say. Do what you can to help out.” appeared in the show’s first half-hour to perform for the LGBTQ community, and I look forward one of her biggest hits “True Colors.” She shared to seeing all of the transformative work you’ll Queer as Folk alum Paige shared with a story explaining how it became one of her continue to do in the years to come.” viewers how the Center was there for him when signature songs. he first arrived in Los Angeles 27 years ago. Trans actor Brian Michael Smith of TV’s “I first sang this song in 1986 for a friend of 9-1-1: Lone Star and Queen Sugar reminded “I was scared and alone and broke,” Paige mine who was an LGBT youth who experienced viewers that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, said. “Someone suggested that I check out the homelessness when he was thrown out of his the Center’s Trans Wellness Center located in Center to get some help. I did. I found a therapist home at the age of 12,” Lauper explained. “For Koreatown has remained open for essential there for $10 a week. It changed my life and it decades, when it comes to youth services, the services like food and hormone therapy. changed what I believed was possible for me. LGBT Center has been giving young people, who There’s a direct line from that scared boy to the “Whether most people recognize it or not, have nowhere else to go, a home. In this age of man you see before you and it goes right through the people representing the T in LGBT are some COVID-19, we need the Center more than ever.” the Los Angeles LGBT Center. I am forever of the most at-risk members of our community,” grateful.” Melissa Etheridge performed her classic hit Smith said. “Come to My Window,” which she released in Lily Tomlin, a staunch Center supporter, used Other famous faces who shared their person- 1993 soon after coming out as lesbian. the telethon to step back into the hairdo of one al experiences with the Center, or who introduced of her most famous iconic characters: the brash, “The generation before me didn’t always segments highlighting various programs and have the luxury of coming out and being accept- “Non-profits all over town have been closing. Our Center has been determined to keep going. A third of our staff are essential first responders, and they have courageously been on the job every day providing medical care, mental health counseling, services for seniors and homeless youth, affordable housing, and more. We couldn’t stop those services—not when our community needs us more than ever.” She added: “We’ve had to develop brand new programs to respond to the pandemic at a time when we’ve had to cancel every fundraising event this year.” When asked what’s next for the Center, Jean ed and even celebrated,” she shared. “So, they telethon, Center CEO Jean explained how responded: “We just have to keep on keeping turned to the Center for support. Tonight, I sing for the pandemic impacted the Center, which has on. More people are coming to us every day the countless doors and windows the Center has continued feeding and housing people and for help.” • kept open for all the LGBT people of all stripes for providing medical care and social and education- more than five decades.” al programming. In her remarks near the beginning of the “It’s been really tough,” she admitted.

• NOVEMBER 2020 • CENTER CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT HARRIS

oday the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the Today we take a moment to celebrate, to Despite the ongoing attacks of the last four entire LGBTQ community stand with millions take a deep breath and imagine a new, more years, the Center and our community never Tof Americans—people fighting for racial hopeful chapter in our ongoing struggle for full stopped fighting. We continued to oppose the equity and justice, feminists, immigrants, youth, and equality and humanity. The election of Joe Biden assaults by the Trump Administration at every turn. other people of good conscience—to congratulate and Kamala Harris does not mean those struggles We fought to affirm the principle that we deserve President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President- no less than full equality and equal justice elect Kamala Harris. and that no President, no Cabinet member, no Senator, can take that from us. In particular, we celebrate the election of our fellow Californian, Kamala Harris, to the We are right to celebrate today, but we office of vice president. Senator Harris will also know that many LGBTQ people still suffer become the first Black woman—indeed, the first the pain of racism and anti-Blackness and live woman—and the first Indian-American elected under the shadow of deportation, harassment, to one of the two highest offices in the land. The and discrimination. Transgender women of historic significance and symbolic magnitude of color still live in fear of brutal violence and her election and what it represents to all people daily assaults on their very identity. Queer who have lived in the shadow of discrimination youth are still disowned by their families and and inequity cannot be overstated. bullied at school. There is still so much to be done. The Center looks forward to working For four years, the LGBTQ community have ended, nor does their election end the with the new Biden-Harris Administration and has faced hundreds of attacks against our deep divisions we have experienced as a nation leaders at the local, state, and federal levels to collective and individual rights from the Trump over the last four years. But it does mean that our create a world in which LGBTQ people thrive as Administration—assaults that included attempts to leaders in the White House share a vision of a healthy, equal, and complete members of society. take away our health care, remove legal protec- nation that includes our community as full and tions, and threaten the safety and well-being of equal participants. From that starting point, we can Today we celebrate the possibilities and our youth. Indeed, we have experienced nothing continue to build a better, more inclusive, and just embrace the dream of full equality. Tomorrow, we less than a concerted effort to delegitimize our world for all. go back to work. • existence and strip us of our humanity. • DECEMBER 2020 • CENTER ADMINISTERS FIRST BATCH OF COVID-19 VACCINES TO FRONTLINE WORKERS n December 29 the Los Angeles LGBT opportunity—because it is the only way to defeat the same. Getting vaccinated is essential to our Center began to administer the first this highly-contagious virus, to save lives, and to wellbeing and our future.” Obatch of the Moderna COVID-19 bring normalcy and joy back to our lives.” There is no live virus in the vaccine, according vaccine to its frontline workers, including Health The Center—the world’s largest provider of to health professionals, and it is not possible to Services staff members and the Security and programs and services to LGBTQ people—se- contract COVID-19 from the vaccine. People Facilities workers who support the Center’s cured refrigeration units required to effectively may experience a sore arm, fatigue, headache, various health care sites. store the vaccine and was approved earlier muscle and joint pains, and body chills lasting The Center followed the requirements from this month to serve as a vaccine distribution site. two days on average. the Los Angeles Department of Public Health in Adhering to all guidelines, the Center then began “The pandemic has killed more than 9,000 administering vaccines to frontline health care planning the vaccination rollout with first priority Angelenos already and sickened more than workers during Phase 1 of the vaccine rollout given to frontline workers. 700,000,” said Dr. Carpenter. “While some of in Los Angeles. The Center received 400 total The vaccines were delivered to the Center on us may be uneasy about receiving the vaccine, it vaccine doses in this first batch and will continue Monday morning. is our only way back to the life we all remember: to follow all requirements for future dissemination to holidays with family, to working side-by-side, to “I’m extremely hopeful that we are on the of vaccines. hugs, and to so many other things that make life path to end the pandemic. As a Black man living worth living. This is our chance.” “This is a momentous day—a pivotal time for in America, I have seen my community dispropor- us to help combat the deadly surge of COVID-19 tionately impacted by COVID-19,” said Health The vaccine does not provide full protection cases in Los Angeles and beyond. Since the Services Quality Coordinator Keith Leach, the first until after the second dose is administered 28 pandemic began, our dedicated frontline workers Center employee to receive the vaccine. “I know days after the first dose. Additionally, it is not helped to keep our Center open for those in firsthand just how dangerous COVID-19 can be. yet known how effective the vaccines are in our community who rely on us. This vaccine will People whom I care about have been affected preventing asymptomatic spreading of COVID-19. help us in that fight,” said Center Health Services by the virus—it’s hit me very close to home. I knew Everyone, including vaccinated staff, should Co-Director Dr. Ward Carpenter. “I strongly I needed to get the vaccine to protect myself continue to maintain social distancing, wear face encourage everyone to educate themselves and and, hopefully, to show others that they should do coverings, and practice frequent hand washing. • consider taking the vaccine—when given the STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES & CHANGES IN NET ASSETS 2020 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION GIVING

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Care Health Plan Lucky Brand Jeans May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust $25,000-$49,999 ANNUALLY Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Wells Fargo Activision Blizzard Foundation Alberstons Companies Foundation MUFG Union Bank American Apparel, Gildan Brands $100,000-$199,999 ANNUALLY Mythical Entertainment American Hotel & Lodging Foundation Ahmanson Foundation Nordstrom AT&T Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation Oaktree Capital Management Center for Care Innovation Citi Community Development OneWest Bank David Bohnett Foundation Delta Dental Community Care Orly International David Geffen Foundation Foundation Pacific Federal, LLC The Eisner Foundation Draper Family Foundation Pacific Life Foundation The Ariadne Getty Foundation Edison International Ruby’s Barbershop Health Net Employees Community Fund of Boeing San Manuel Casino Open Society Foundations Felice Samuel Greene Scholarship Fund Sanofi U.S. QueensCare Happy Hippie Foundation SCAN Health Plan S. Mark Taper Foundation Hollywood Forever Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund Joseph and Fiora Stone Foundation Toyota Southern California Gas Company Lionsgate Sprinkles Los Angeles County Arts Commission $50,000-$99,000 ANNUALLY The Bouqs Company Morgan Stanley The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Amazon Studios Nike, Charities Aid Foundation Foundation Amy Phillips Charitable Foundation NYX Professonal Makeup The Rite Aid Foundation Bank of America PhRMA Comcast NBCUniversal United Talent Agency Hollywood Foreign Press Association VANS $10,000-$24,000 ANNUALLY Jewish Community Foundation, Warner Media Los Angeles Ares Management William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Kaiser Permanente BlueCity Holdings Limited MAC Aids Fund Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS OFFICIAL AIRLINE PARTNER Max Factor Family Foundation Citi Private Bank American Airlines Target Glamnetics The Ahmanson Foundation H&M The Change Reaction Hollywood Foreign Press Association Trust Sustaining Donors Alison Smith* Michael Mueller and Nick Bode* Brad Springer and Neil Hedin Susan M. 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Maule Alejandro Villageliu Daniel McCaffrey Tyson Ward Daryl McCullough James Wetmore Timothy and Brad McNeal Jeannie Wilkinson and Tamara Becher Danielle McPherson Tom Willhite and Celeste Willhite Gary Meade and Rummel Bautista Scott Williams and Peter Ray Richard Mehlman and David Eichman Steven Wright and Michael Vilkin Robert Meza Melissa Wylie Barry Miguel Shawn S. Zahedi and Xun Du Dan Monick *Membership level is inclusive of donations Brandon Monk to the Love in Action Telethon. Kate Motonaga Gregory Mueller and Greg Turnbul Erin and Windy O’Malley John Oden and Mark Dizik Calen D. B. Ouellette Kari Pacheco and Shelby Ilan-Pacheco Cesar Palana and Timothy Horth Eric Pallotta Byron K. Patel Bradford Pollard Dimitri Portnoi and Landon Hughes Kevin T. Powers Steve Rabkin Bob Rademacher and Paul Pappajohn Francisco Ramos and Christopher Etscheid Jonathan Reeves Leslie Rosen, PhD and Kim Hayashi David Ryu and Virginia Yoon Peter Sadowski Robert Saltzman Janelle Sanchez Robert Schatz Mark Schuster and Jeffrey F. Webb Beth Sherman and Amanda McAulay The Shine Project Sean Sobottka and Luke Abbott Jules Sohn and Krystal Young Named Funds CIRCLE OF LIFE MEMBERS Barbara Boruff Bruce M. Abrams, Esq. James Bowers $3,000,000 AND UP Lane Adams and Richard Savage LuAnn Boylan Duke Comegy’s Leadership Endowment Fund David Adelman J. Lynne Boylan Donald Beavis Charitable Trust for Youth Kenneth M. Alford Danny W. Bozarth Bernard F. Alfs Don Bozick $1,500,000 Claire N. Alger Robert Emslie Bracken Gil Garfield Fund for the Creative and George Thomas Applegate Elenore Alickman & Performing Arts R. David Bradshaw John McDonald and Robert Wright Pat Allen Paul Brewer Charitable Trust Denise C. Alpine and Katherine Wolfe Joyce L. Briscoe and Shirley A. Hill Arlen H. Andelson and Michele W. Andelson Benjamin Britt $1,000,000 James M. Andre and Paul A. Kellogg Alex Brod Michael Becker Charitable Trust Michael D. Arden Mark R. Brower Bill Shaw/Dennis Lynch Endowed Chair for Youth Tess Ayers and Jane A. Anderson Josh Brown Gwendolyn H. Baba $500,000 Leo Brown W. Lee L. Bailey, M.D. Martin Burley Fund for L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Tad Brown and Jonathan Daillak Fred Balch Martin and Wilma Burley Youth Fund Richard M. Bryant J. Douglas Elliot Fund Paris Barclay and Christopher Mason Bernard Buchanan, M.D. Julian Alexander Smariga Fund Amanda Barge and John Barge Jordan N. Budd M. Richard Sousa/Geri Pranger Fund David M. Barrett and Mark Peters Orin L. Burgess and Robert J. Brehler Dianne Barrett-Elfering, R.N. $100,000 and Margaret Barrett-Elfering, M.D. Sue Burnside R. David Bradshaw Fund for Youth Lewis S. Baskerville Edward J. Butorac and Paul R. Kaiser Gary S. Meade/John Dentinger Fund Greg Basser and Kiera O’Neill Denis R. Cagna and Carlos Medina Bill Shaw/Dennis Lynch Fund for Ed Gould Plaza David E. Beaulieu James B. Cain and Tom Teves Joseph Becci and Mark Denton Robert J. Campbell and Webb Huang Circle of Life David L. Beckerman and David D. Wexler Thomas Carmichael (As of December 31, 2020) Neil Beecher Gary A. Carnow and Barry I. Soroka In recognition of their commitment to the ongoing Stuart H. Bell and Allen Bell Eleazar Carrasco, M.D. work of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, we honor the Ernie Benson Wayne Case Founders and Members of the Circle of Life. Robert J. Bentley and Gary A. Rado Kerry Castillo In planning their estates, these men and women James J. Castranova have joined together to create a living legacy of David M. Benz hope for coming generations of LGBT people. Victoria Berck and Joan Denson Ronald A. Cavallo Tommy Chambers and Todd Kusy Founders have made commitments of $1,000,000 Rhona J. Berens and Jennifer Berens or more. Robert P. Bergstein and Raul C. Cobian John Chaney Stacy A. Berlin, Psy.D. Tek Chong CIRCLE OF LIFE FOUNDERS and Theresa A. Fitzgerald, D.C. John Christofferson James T. Clarkson Michael Becker Arthur H. Bernstein Pamela A. Clifford and J. Lorrie Webb John S. McDonald and Robert W. Wright David Beugen Helen J. Cohen Alan J. Paull Neil A. Big Ruben Colazzo William H. Shaw Scott W. Binder, M.D. and Jeffrey S. Seeger, Ph.D. Richard B. Colbert and Kenny Taylor Ed Slough William H. Bingham Ronald Comer and Darryl Ingram Barry Solof, M.D. and David Salyer Malcolm J. Blue Ken Coon and Michael L. Miller Stephen R. Warner and Vincent A. Turano Steven M. Boggs Michelle C. Bonilla Andrae Corrigan and Tigerlily Rosen David M. Booher and Steven Milam Clive R. Costley Gary Booher Angela M. Courtin The Honorable Scott R. Crawford Joshua David Fielstra Edward Grant and Jon Hall Mykel and Jeffrey Crerie Lillene Fifield John Green and Chris Spry Alva L. Crist Richard E. Fiock and Diego Castrejon Raymond B. Gregory and Eric Ornelas Luis Cruz Christopher Q. Fink Harold Gunn and Kelly Strader David B. Cruz and Steven B. Greene Jeffrey A. Fischer and James G. Van Beek Kennth P. Hahn and Louis Mangual Bryan L. Dahlgren Wendy Fischler James P. Haley Bruce Davidson, Ph.D. and Quang Nguyen Mike Fish G. Scott Halloran and Peter J. Rusch Rick Davis and Barry Ward Robin Fish Clark Hallren and Kenneth R. Wilson Kristopher Davis Alan Fisher, M.D. Will Halm, Esq. and Marcellin Simard, M.D. Gil Dawson and Philip Zurfluh Regan Fisher Nicolas Hamatake and Kenneth Mariash Jennifer L. Dawson Van Fletcher and Charles S. Paul James Hamilton and Ray Paolantonio Peter Day Michael Fleming Roy Hamilton Christine A. Dean and Rose C. Veniegas, Ph.D. Suzanne Flores Robert W. Hanna, Ph.D. Daryl Dean and David Woodard Gabriel Flores, Ed.D. The Honorable Dean Hansell James Thomas Deighton Anna M. Flynn Holly Hanson and Sophie Hanson Kenneth delAlcazar John Frenzel Karen Harbaugh Brian C. Dent Tomas Fuller and William D. Kelly, M.D. Rodger F. Hargear Martin L. DeWitt David W. Gajda and Jose Malagon Steven R. Hawkins and Charles Snell Diane Digenova Mark Galanty Peter A. Hayashida and Michael Olman Mark Dizik, Ph.D. and John R. Oden Frank Galassi Randall J. Hayden Stephen H. Dolainski Gilbert T. Galvan Robert Mark Hemphill and Scott Schrader Patrick L. Dominguez Joseph T. Garcia Alan Heppel and Michael Lyons Ann M. Donahue David H. Gardner Alan S. Hergott and Curtis F. Shepard Patrick T. Doonan and Paul Thompson Robin and James Gardner Librada Hernandez and Mary R. Power Arlene Drake, Ph.D. Rick Garman Ramon Hinman Paul Drooks Patricia A. Gasior and Trisha Yamato Ron Hitchcock Matthew E. DuBois Oscar R. Gaspar Todd K. Holland and Scotch E. Loring George A. V. Dunning and Robert M. Marino Lisa L. Gates and Elenore J. Alickman Kevin T. Holliday and John F. Dilazzaro M. Max Eckert and Robert Amarante Alvan R. Gendein, M.D. Mike J. Holtzman Jennifer D. Ehrman and Faith Ehrman Phillip Gerson Leslie Ann Hope Robert P. Elliott Russ Gething Adele and Jennifer Hoppe-House Melinda Elmer Raymond C. Geyer and John B. Welch Michael Horn, M.D. Travis Emery Thomas A. Giancoli II Michaeljohn Horne and Tom E. Jones Keith William Endersen Irene Girgis Scott D. Hunt Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer Garrett N. Glaser and Bill Schneider John Hurter William J. Escalera and Francisco George Frances L. Glenn Michael Hyman Ray Espino Leslie Glick Robert G. Jacobsen Christopher M. Evans Alexandra Glickman and Gayle Whittemore Kenneth W. Jamison Kathryn E. Falberg and Monique Predovich Terry S. Gock, M.D. Peter Jandula-Hudson and Michael V. Hudson William Dirk Farasey Robert Gomez Daniel J. Jbara William D. Farnum and J. A. Benitez George A. Gonzalez and Michael Schidlowski Lorri L. Jean and Gina M. Calvelli Julian Cervantes Farrar Eric A. Gordon Frank M. Johnson Daniel E. Fast, M.D. and Thomas E. O’Brien Ronald L. Gordon Jack A. Jones William G. Feaster Stanley S. Gordon, M.D. Thomas Jones Gary Felgemaker and Jim Hill Bob Gotham and Mike Manuel Robert K. Jurkowski and Steven C. Carnine Robert J. Ficklin Andrea K. Goto and Kelly P. Lynch Denny B. Kagasoff Stephen Fields and Sims Brannon Rodney Gott David A. Kale Eugene Kapaloski Thomas E. Madigan Kenneth L. Navran Laurence M. Kaplan Fred Madjar and Arthur E. Dennis Randall Neece and Joe Timko Teri Kaplan and Barbara Marx Susan M. Maher and Carolyn D. Norman Frederick O. Nelson Barry Karas and Bruce Green Sunne Mahood Charles Nicholson Fred S. Karger Richard M. Manion and William R. Coleman Nicholas E. Nicoletti Hilmar S. Karlsson and Jose G. Camacho Robert Margouleff Kenneth Norman Laura A. Karpman and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum Fred C. Martin, M.D. Barth Z. Norton and Tim Ferguson Jonathan A. Kaufman and John Rail Eric Marvel Terrence K. O’Brien Keith G. Kauhanen, M.D. and Jim Petrone Ronald H. Matsen-Wing, M.D. and Bruce Matsen- Quentin O’Brien and Kenneth G. Blakeley Adam Z. Kawalek, M.D. Wing Michael Oard and Ron Attrell Steven J. Kay Ella Matthes Dennis R. Odums James S. Keagy Roy M. Maule Jay Olson Kevin M. Kennard Stephen Seiferheld May and Edward B. Casson Peter O’Neill and Humberto Gonzalez Jim Key Mark McAlister Dan Ortiz Roger G. Keys Barry McCabe Loren Ostrow, Esq. and Brian Newkirk Robert H. King Norman C. McClelland Vicki Pacifico Chad Kiengsiri Garrett McClure George Y. Pao and George A. Schulman Danielle F. Knight William J. McDermott Peter Parisi Marki J. Knox, M.D. and Suzanne C. Brown Edward F. McKitrick James Parker David Kobosa and Frank Maurer Gary S. Meade and Rummel Bautista John Parker Kwock Koe, M.D. Bill Melamed Jr. Rick Parks Neil Koenigsberg Jeff Melnick Spero Pastos Kevin Kolanowski Mark M. Meltzer Russell L. Patrick Alexander Koleszar Jorge D. Mendez Alan J. Paull Dino Koutsolioutsos Nicholas Mendoza Michael Love Peace Barbara Kroll and Ruth Spielman Norman Merino Rob Peralta Nicolas J. Labedz Paul J. Merrill Robert Perdue and John Zimmerman Linda Lack, Ph.D. W. B. Messinger Ernesto Perez Andrea Laguni Sharen Metz Robert Perkins Chris Laib David Meyers Mark S. Perzely Brad D. Lamm and Scott G. Sanders Robert Meza Brent M. Petersen Elisa Laris William Mir James A. Phillips and Gerald Orcholski Charles A. Larson, Esq. Marcy Miranda Patricia D. Phillips John T. Latimer and Benjamin Squire David B. Mixner Barbara Pierce, Ph.D. Jim Lawrence David Mizener and Arturo Carrillo Philip Pierce, Ph.D. Bernard “Marc” Leger and Neil Williamson Kelley Mobley and Maureen Gant Douglas Pollock Carol E. Leifer and Lori J. Wolf Anil Mohin, M.D. and John A. Scholz Michael Popwell Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis William P. Moore Brenda R. Potter Scott E. Lewis Tony Moore and Jerry Gaudlitz Mark Z. Powell, M.D. and Ike Mendoza Ron Lieber Ben Morisch Bernard S. Prosise Andrew Z. Linsky Gordon S. Morris Arturo Puertos, M.D. James Lipsett, M.D. Zach Mullaney Lynn A. Rabin Robert Loos and John Ventantonio Michael D. Mullen Michael W. Rabkin and Chan B. Tom Robert A. Loving Jonathan Murray and Harvey Reese Jim Rayton Cary A. Lowe and Allan Ames Alice J. Myers Ian Renner Arthur E. Macbeth Robert G. Nankin, M.D. Medel Reyes Valerie Madden Peter M. Nardi, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Chernin Matthew Michael Rhodes John H. Richette Stephanie B. Small Len Wechsler Curtis Ringness and Barry Ralph Barbara E. Smallwood and Maura Geoghegan Dan S. Weinstein Thomas G. Rogillio II Julian A. Smariga Gary Weinstein David L. Rose Christopher A. Smith and James K. Zimmerman James D. Weinstein Marion Rosenberg George D. Smith and Leston C. Buell Steven J. Weissman, Esq. Michael A. Ross Steven C. Smith and Daniel H. Bowers, M.D. Amy A. Ross Zachary D. Smith and Virginia L. Thorson Wes Wheadon, O.D. Gregory A. Ross and John P. Schuning Barry S. Solof, M.D. and David A. Salyer James Blair White Anita May Rosenstein Mason A. Sommers, Ph.D. Robert A. White Sheila F. Roth Alan Spano John B. Whitley Stephanie Roth Richard Stanley James C. Whitten Joel Rothschild Gregory Stanton Christopher Wienke Jim Rudolph and Gonzalo Herrara-Rudolph Frank D. Stasio Doris Williams Marilyn A. Ruebling Greg Steele Frank H. Williams John H. Ruggles Jack Stellato Scott E. Williams and Peter Ray Jeffrey W. Russell John F. Stephens Beverly Winters Larry R. Ryan, M.D. and Jay Singer Jean Stephenson David R. Wood Joel Safranek Dennis Strum Mike Worner and Marc Harnly Ken Saft Timothy L. Sulka Kenneth Wright Robert M. Saltzman Jim Sutton Richard L. Wulfsberg, M.D. Dakota Sands, M.S.W. Bert Swartz and Glenn Wagner Steve Yeager Arlene Sanford and Devra Lieb Richard Tadeo Harriet Zaretsky Jason L. Sanford Charles J. Taylor Mary Zeiser Dennis H. Sapire, Ph.D. and Tarwin Onketpon Hannah Theile, Ph.D. and Kenna Love Chris Zeller Steven T. Schleier Sara J. Thomas Mark A. Zellers Neil Schram, M.D. and David Taylor James Thommes, M.D. George P. Ziemer James A. Schultz and Mitchell Matsey Daniel Tietz CIRCLE OF LIFE FOUNDERS, Robert D. Schwartz, M.D. and Herluf Kanstrup James C. Torrance, Jr. and Ian G. de Freitas IN MEMORIAM Arthur Scotti Patricia Trocino Clarence E. Anderson Neil Scuram Kevin Trudgeon and Stuart Ross Donald Beavis John Sealy, M.D. Bridget Trumpet Lubelle Boice Brad W. Seiling Kevin Tvedt Martin D. Burley Lowell R. Selvin and Gilbert C. Winebar Alberto Uribe Wilma E. Burley Elliott R. Sernel and Larry Falconio Ron C. Vacchina Kennith H. Burns Alan M. Shafer and David J. Doyle Gary P. Venet John S. Cambouris Duke Comegys, Founder of Circle of Life William H. Shaw The Verdon Haight Trust Gilbert Garfield W. Donald Shaw The Vergona and DeLoretta Trust Emily L. Gochis Paul J. Sheehan and Larry Sprenger Bruce Vilanch Edward S. Gould S. Shepherd Stephen Gerard Volz Dennis J. Lynch Cindy Shopoff and William Shopoff Park W. Wagers, M.D. John E. Milbauer Eric M. Shore and Charles F. Paul Lee Wallace M. Richard Sousa Gordon D. Strube Paul Simon Kevin D. Walter Lisa Simonetti and Robin Jenkins Adam Waring and Don Cummings Susan A. Simons James L. Watson and Ike Llioputaife Nellie A. Sims Sam Watters Karen Siteman Conrad E. Webb, Jr. and Gilles C. Wheeler Ed Slough Tad R. Webster CIRCLE OF LIFE, IN MEMORIAM Frederick T. Guckenberger Ralph E. Moore Carl R. Gustafson Ralph Moritz Jonathan Ahearn Jack Hale Samuel H. Morris Raymond Aleman and George Cooper Robert H. Halff Ronald Morrison Leon Alexander Scott Hamilton Donald H. Moseley Howard J. Amsterdam Edwin A. Handler Alan Needham Steven M. Apfelbaum James Hanshumaker Owen D. Neighbour Ray Barker Gordon Hanson James B. Newton Robert F. Barron Kermit E. Hartley Florian Novak Sheila S. Becker Ronald L. Hawkins, Ph.D. Robert P. O’Connor Ester F. Bentley Thomas M. Herrera Paul Odebrecht Richard Berger Frances Blain D. Hightower Rodney Page Joseph Block, M.D. Ron Hills John L. Parks Richard M. Bobb R. Scott Hitt, M.D. Kenneth Pavlick John-Kelly Bray M. Dale Holland James L. Peatross Albert Busendorfer Martin J. Holmes Frank J. Pfizenmayer Jerome C. Byrne Steven L. Hughes Charles R. Pollock John Cambouris Richard L. Jackman Geri Pranger Kenneth Carmichael Marc Janvier David H. Presser Luke W. Chang Gary Kalkin James Prideaux Robert L. Clark Robert K. Keagy Reid T. Rasmussen, M.D. Jeff E. Cohen Carl E. Kelly, Ph.D Kevin P. Reilly Michael P. Colefax Marshall L. Kendzy Daniel H. Renberg June Cooper Frank G. Ker Vern Richards Edward V. Costanzo Daniel S. Kerr W. J. Richardson Raymond D. Cox James A. Kimball Victor Robinson William R. Dawson William Kitchen Eric Rofes Paul E. Des Marais Fred Klemz Michael Rogers Ernest R. Dewsnap Karl Kleinz Robert B. Sampliner Paul E. Diener Steven R. Kolzak Keith Schaeffer E.H. Duncan Donovan Robert Krasnow, M.D. Henry Louis Schlarman Bud Douglas Gabe W. Kruks Grenville M. Scott Patrick K. Doyle Nicholas Labedz Bert Sexton David Eidenberg Lucille Lemmon Charles Shackelford J. Douglas Elliott, Ph.D. Joseph A. Levy Arthur W. Shepherd Darryl Farrar Charles H. Lewis Robert “Cal” Shively Edward A. Feilbert Ralph Renard Lewis Angel Silva Michael Filerman Lionel B. Levin, M.D. and Gale Lee Reynolds Jeffrey Skorneck Michael R. Filippone Ernest Lieblich Bob R. Smith Paul Findlay Lawrence Linn Ruth W. Spiegel Art Flores John J. Lipsky Robert Stacey, M.D. Walter Franks J.D. Lydick Edma C. Stage Gregory Ganci John L. Lyons Irving Stein Peter E. Geissler Royd J. Mahowald Jean Stephenson Walter Goldstein Harry R. Major James M. Stern James S. Gordon Que Mars Clay Stevens Robert C. Gould Edward J. Mausser, Jr. David W. Streets Shirley H. Gould Theodore L. McEvoy, Ph.D. Harry E. Strider Donald Grandy C. Pete McKenney Richard A. Stulgaitis William Graysen, Esq. Robert McQueen Ken Stump Jered E. Green Michael P. McShane John Stuteville Thomas E. Greenan Paul Menke Henry G. Supka Rose I. Greene Brian J. Miller, Ph.D. David Susky Michael Greenstein Daniel A. Moeller Linda Swenson Jeff Griffith Swen Swenson Aaron Tallent Benjamin E. Teller, M.D. Robert N. Tenney Deborah A. Thompson Mark Thompson and Malcolm Boyd Richard Tirrell Thomas C. Towse Edward L. Troth Philo W. Van Wagoner Richard P. Wagner, M.D. George R. Walker Leroy S. Walker Robert B. Ward Earl David Wasserman Donald E. Watson Dorothy J. Watson Eric D. Weber Jay G. Wehrfritz, M.D. Frederick R. Weisman James L. Welch Alex B. Wexler Lon Weyland Orlin Wheeler Charles L. White Robert S. White Charles H. Whitebread Kenneth L. Wiederhold Bernard P. Wiesen and Don Roberts George R. Wilcox Gregory H. Willenborg William G. Wilkins Donald L. Williams Christopher John Williams Ethel Wisner Raymond B. Zelenka Stuart A. Zinn Government & Public Support The programs and services of the Los Angeles LGBT Center are also made possible in part because of generous grants from:

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