Author: David Hyman

LGBTQ+ Black Lives Matter
Unity Town Hall

October 17th & October 18th, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

We live in a period where social contradictions have been laid bare by the racism in our communities: ongoing murder of black people by police, mass incarceration, high unemployment, lack of access to health care, climate crisis, voter suppression, a broken system of education, and COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous and POC communities. As same-gender-loving and LGBTQ+ community members let’s unite to make things right.

In this virtual town hall panelists and participants, will break out in small groups to explore:

• • • Where does it hurt? The injury to the individual and community from racism, internalized oppression and unconscious/implicit bias.
    • How addressing anti-black bias will benefit all people. Who benefits from crises if unchecked? Who benefits when we “other” each other?

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Organized by Openhouse’s Leadership Council on Queerness, Race, and Privilege – a member-initiated working group
Openhouse

Members of LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area have formed a Friends of the Lyon-Martin House group to preserve the longtime home of pioneering lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon on Duncan Street in San Francisco, which recently sold for $2.25M. Lyon and Martin purchased the property in 1955 and lived there together until Del Martin’s death; Phyllis Lyon lived on in the house until her passing earlier this year.

A “Friends of the Lyon-Martin House” team has been created, including Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the GLBT Historical Society, and San Francisco Heritage, to ensure that this property is designated a San Francisco Landmark and preserved as one of San Francisco’s most iconic cultural sites.

Check out the new website for the Friends of the Lyon-Martin House: https://www.friends-of-the-lyon-martin-house.com/.

While on the site, you can sign a letter to the Board of Supervisors and Historic Preservation Commission, which will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors in advance of their 10/19 hearing.

Please share the website and letter — created by Grete Miller — with your communities.  Thank you.

This page is about TWO opportunities:

Get tested for COVID-19

get a temporary job as a COVID-19 Community Health Outreach Worker (CHOW)

 

1.

This materialized fast but we are organizing with UCSF to provide space on the 100 block for Mobile COVID Testing for the TL, the weekend of October 10th and 11th.

 

Wanted to share that the UCSF team is looking for Outreach workers, I attached the job description. They would love to hire from the community and the going rate is $24 dollars an hour (4-6 week opportunity beyond the 2 day event on our block). JD attached!

 

Feel free to share! It is a fast hire process, I believe 6-8 folks by Monday, FYI. We have connected the UCSF Team to Glide, Code TL, CARE Team, AIDS Foundation and TLCBD.

 

Please send any interested parties to Cynthia Nagendra, Executive Director, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative:

Cynthia.Nagendra@ucsf.edu

 

More info about the activation will be provided but here is a snap shot:

 

“We are conducting a mobile testing event where we will be sending care teams out that include Community Health Outreach Workers (CHOWs) hired from the neighborhood, a testing team, and our staff into all parts of District 6 (Tenderloin, SOMA, nearby areas), to provide testing to people living unsheltered in various locations on October 10-11.  We will be offering a gift card incentive as well.

 

Since this is very much a community-led effort with us, and we know the expertise is on the ground, we would very much like to be hire CHOWs from the neighborhood on a temporary, full-time basis from October 5th – November 2nd. We are looking for people who can dedicate that time to this project, who are willing to get trained, don’t need much supervision, and that are familiar with doing outreach or working with people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in District 6 (TL, SOMA, surrounding areas).  I am attaching a job description here in the hopes that you might have some candidates that could be hired quickly (by the end of this week on 10/2 or by early next week).”

 

FREE MOBILE COVID TESTING  

FOR ALL UNHOUSED RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT 6 

 

WHERE: Tenderloin, SOMA, Surrounding Areas 

 

WHEN: October 10-11 

 

HOW: WE WILL BRING THE TESTING TO YOU 

 

BOTTOM RIGHT: 

• How do I get tested? 

• • Mobile teams will come to you to provide free COVID -19 testing  
  • Limited testing will be available at St. Anthony’s

• What will I get? 

• • Information about how to safe from COVID 
  • Free gift card and gift bag  
  • Testing for the people near you if they choose to get tested 

• How do I get my results? 

• • You can see a staff person at St. Anthony’s, call a hotline, or check the website 

• What happens if I test positive? 

• • You will be given the results by a care team wherever you are staying 
  • You will be offered options for healthcare, meals, and support services  
  • You can either stay in temporary housing during illness, if you choose, OR 
  • You can also stay where you are and receive support services to help you through the illness