Tue Jun 26, 2012 at 10:09 AM PDT
Girls just wanna help homeless LGBT youth
by rserven
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/26/1103302/-Girls-just-wanna-help-homeless-LGBT-youthBack in the day...back when I finished transitioning from male to female...I set myself a task of ensuring that someday nobody would be treated as I had been. In some ways, that's an impossible task to perform. In other ways I discovered that I really hadn't had it so bad.
After all I didn't grow up living on the street, did I?
So I have added the work of educating people to the point that they might actually care about homeless youth...especially homeless LGBT youth. I do what I can do.
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Today marks the launch of Cyndi Lauper's Forty to None project, as part of her True Colors Fund. Lauper was Grand Marshall of this year's New York City Pride Parade. Last August she opened the True Colors Residence for LGBT youth.