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. Michael Lombardo INNOVATION 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. MILESTONES THANK YOU! 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- Los Angeles. | Lionsgate presented a drive-in 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.