Talk show host names Cristan Williams one of "Jenny's Heroes"
OutSmart Magazine
by Nancy Ford
January 2010
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Talk show host Jenny Jones has selected Houstonian Cristan Williams to receive a "Jenny's Heroes" grant. Williams, director of Transgender Foundation of America, requested $5,000 to expand the TG Center library with transgender biographies, medical journals, and other nonfiction books.
(NB: More information at: http://www.jennysheroes.com/heroes_20091207_cristanw.shtml (http://www.jennysheroes.com/heroes_20091207_cristanw.shtml) )
I know Cristan and this is very well deserved. Unfortunately, right after the award was given, the TG Center was evicted from its home. So now they are scrambling to find a new place.
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Kristi, thank you for that update. What a terrible situation! It sounds as if the Center has been mistreated by their former landlord, who evicted them with less than minimal warning, after a long period of escalating demands. The website of the Center's parent organization says that the Center now has a temporary location, but a permanent home won't be announced for months.
More about the situation can be read here:
http://tgctr.org/center.shtml (http://tgctr.org/center.shtml)
It is indeed a long complicated story, and a very sad one about people who differ in trans-related things. It is not merely an eviction, more of a parting of the ways which has saddened many of us. That being said, let's hope the new location works out and/or a permanent home can soon be found.
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