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Queer homeless youth Ali Forney was murdered on the streets of New York in 1997. A campaign
for the center named in his honor launched during the Big Apple's Pride Week.
“Forcing event organizers to allow contrary
messages within the event area violates the First
Amendment,” said Becky Steele, director of the
ACLU of Florida’s West Central Office.
Additionally, the St. Pete Pride permit require
ment forbids people from carrying signs, banners or
using bullhorns along closed-street areas unless
they arejnside a “designated area.” Not only could
this condition unconstitutionally ban speech from
public areas near and around the street festival area,
but it criminalizes parade participants if they were
to enter the street festival area still carrying their
signs or banners.
“The streets and sidewalks of the entire city
should be a free speech zone for everyone,” Steele
said.
NEW YORK
Ads Target Queer Homeless Youth
The Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest
and most comprehensive program dedicated to
helping homeless queer youth become independ
ent as they move from adolescence to adulthixid,
announced June 19 a second advertising campaign
to combat the epidemic of homelessness in the
queer community.
The ads, both video and print, were produced
by youth clients and were seen in Hoy, H'X, Next,
Blade and Out of Home in conjunction with New
York’s Gay Pride celebration. The video ads will
roll out during the coming month on a variety of
outlets to be determined. This ambitious campaign
commemorates the fifth anniversary of the center’s
opening and marks 10 years since the murder of the
facility’s namesake.
Last year, the center produced a provocative
and moving bilingual print advertising campaign
directed at parents and families of queer youth.
“The impact of last year’s campaign was
extremely gratifying,” said Carl Siciliano, the
center’s executive director and founder. “Parents
called us from New York City and from as far away
as Peru to simply talk to them about their child
being LGBT. Based on that experience, our staff
felt very strongly that this year we should give the
camera and microphones to our clients and try to
reach kids on the streets or in unsafe homes.”
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YOU
Politicians Donate to Expand
Queer Center
The Garden Party, the annual kickoff for New
York Pride Week and a fund-raiser for the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center,
brought a welcome announcement. City Council
speaker Christine Quinn and Manhattan Borough
president Scott Stringer vowed June 20 to allot
major capital funding totaling $9 million: $4 mil
lion each from the mayor’s office and New York
City Council and $1 million from Stringer’s office.
The money will go toward the center’s capital
expansion plan, with a goal of raising $50 million.
The campaign will allow the center to expand its
capacity to serve an increasingly diverse sexual
minorities community and will help create an
endowment to ensure the center’s presence for
future generations of queer New Yorkers.
“This funding is an exciting beginning to our
capital expansion plan and will help ensure a future
of service to New York’s LGBT community,” said
Richard Bums, the center’s executive director. “We
hope that this impressive commitment by the city
of New York will inspire additional donations that
will enable us to reach our expansion goal.”
The center’s capital campaign—which will be
launched officially in 2008, its 25th anniversary
year—will result in a new five-story facility to be
built on the underused western portion of its
property, along with a significant endowment to
ensure the organization’s future. ©
City Council speaker Christine Quinn has pledged
$4 million to the Now York Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.
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