Our Survey of 42 LGBT Groups and Their Leaders' Salaries
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Also, members of the House Courts of Justice Subcommittee tabled Senate Bill 1211 that would have added gender-neutral language to Virginia’s marriage laws. “The realities of 2015 are here, like it or not,” said gay state Sen. Adam Ebbin during Thursday’s hearing on SB 1211 before the House Courts of Justice Subcommittee. “We owe the Virginians who are legally married couples recognition under the law.” MAYOR BOWSER’s Offi ce of LGBT Aff airs has announced a new health survey MICHAEL K. LAVERS initiative aimed at the LGBT community. WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY D.C. senior services group reaches out to elders One of the D.C. area’s most prominent private organizations that provides services to D.C. conducting ‘fi rst-ever’ senior citizens has recently reached out to LGBT seniors to help it better serve the LGBT community, according to gay activist and LGBT seniors advocate Ron Swanda. health survey to include trans data Swanda said IONA Senior Services, which is located at Wisconsin Avenue and Albermarle Street, N.W., invited him and other LGBT seniors to meet with its offi cials to The Mayor’s Offi ce of GLBT Aff airs, the D.C. Department of Health, and a discuss issues of importance to LGBT seniors. private research organization are teaming up to conduct a comprehensive health “To ensure visitors and clients can readily identify it as a LGBTQ-friendly and survey “for LGBT individuals living in the District of Columbia,” according to a welcoming organization, IONA Senior Services recently began displaying ‘Rainbow letter urging LGBT residents to take the survey. Colors’ at its main entrance,” Swanda said. “One of eight ‘lead agencies’ in D.C.’s senior- The letter is co-signed by Sheila Alexander-Reid, director of the Offi ce of GLBT service network, IONA is the fi rst such organization to specifi cally communicate the Aff airs, and Jeff rey Poirier, an offi cial with the American Institutes for Research availability of services to older LGBTQ individuals, and to develop programs that meet (AIR), an international not-for-profi t organization that the D.C. government has specifi c needs of LGBTQ clients,” he said. retained to carry out the survey. IONA, which receives some of its funding from the D.C. government’s Offi ce on “As you may know, there has been very little research on the LGBT community Aging, provides a variety of services for seniors, including care management, caregiver in the District of Columbia, and the 2015 GLBT Health Survey is greatly needed consultation and assistance, home help for seniors, home-delivered meals, counseling to inform health advocacy initiatives targeting the LGBT community,” Alexander- and support groups, exercise and fi tness programs, and a drop-in senior center located Reid and Poirier said in their letter, which is undated. at the St. Albans School near the National Cathedral. “The survey results will be used to inform organizations that develop initiatives LOU CHIBBARO JR. to address specifi c health needs of the LGBT community, develop targeted prevention and care strategies, and form health policy priorities within the GLAA blasts prostitution crackdown Mayor’s Offi ce of GLBT Aff airs,” the letter says. The latest survey follows a 2010 health survey prepared jointly by the DOH and the GLBT Aff airs Offi ce under Mayor Adrian Fenty that included data limited The president of the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington characterized to gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. The 2010 survey drew criticism from as “scandalous” and “absurd” a D.C. police sting operation in which police are placing transgender activists, who questioned why data on the trans community was ads on websites inviting people to hotel rooms to engage in sex for money and then omitted from the survey. arresting them for solicitation for prostitution when they show up. Gay activist Christopher Dyer, who headed the GLBT Aff airs offi ce at the time, The Washington Post reported that police have arrested more than 50 unwitting apologized for the omission of trans data. He told activists the report at the time customers on prostitution-related charges in the past several weeks at hotels at or near only had access to data collected by the DOH, which was limited to a standard, Thomas Circle, including the upscale Donovan Hotel. “scientifi cally” developed health questionnaire provided to the city by the U.S. Police have said they initiated the sting in response to complaints by nearby residents, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That questionnaire covered only businesses and clergy affi liated with churches in the area. “sexual orientation” and not gender identity and expression. “GLAA’s position is that the law should be changed, and that alternatives to The current survey being conducted by DOH, the GLBT Aff airs Offi ce and incarceration should be pursued in the meantime,” said GLAA President Rick Rosendall. AIR was initiated by Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration under then GLBT “Criminalizing sex work helps no one, and is an absurd waste of police resources.” Aff airs Offi ce director Sterling Washington. It represents the fi rst such study in Over the past several years GLAA has released detailed position papers pointing out D.C. that will collect health-related data on transgender residents. that transgender women are sometimes forced into sex work to survive after being According to the letter by Alexander-Reid and Poirier, the identity of those denied more traditional employment due to discrimination. The group has said that taking the survey by answering an online questionnaire will be kept strictly arresting LGBT people and others in that situation makes it more diffi cult for them to confi dential.