Talk show host names Cristan Williams one of "Jenny's Heroes"

[Allamakee]

Talk show host names Cristan Williams one of "Jenny's Heroes"
OutSmart Magazine
by Nancy Ford
January 2010

http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/cms-this_issue/201001--News+Briefs.html?PHPSESSID=84ba1dc495e8d1f9de7d130f74b674d9

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 )

[Suzy]

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. 

Kristi

[Allamakee]

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

[Suzy]

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.

Kristi