LGBTQ homeless youth are under attack. CBST is fighting back. In November, Mayor Bloomberg cut $1.7M from city funding for LGBTQ homeless youth. CBST fought back by speaking at a public hearing, attending rallies, creating an online petition with hundreds of signatures, and holding a meeting with the mayor’s office to tell them that CBST would not stand for these cuts.
More recently, Gov. Cuomo, despite his support of marriage equality, cut funding to services for LGBTQ homeless youth by 50%, a violently disproportionate cut. As Carl Siciliano , Executive Director the Ali Forney Center writes:
“In 2007, $6.8 million ...
Act now to support LGBTQ youth in New York City!
While CBST helped stop the city's budget cuts to LGBTQ youth homeless services at the end of 2010, Now the state has proposed to eliminate all financial support for beds for LGBTQ homeless youth. Stand up with CBST and tell Albany this is unacceptable!
Call Gov. Andrew Cuomo: (518) 474-8390, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: (518) 455-3791, and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos: (518) 455-3171
"Hi, my name is _____ and I'm a member of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. As a member of the adult LGBTQ community and as a Jew, it is unacceptable to me that their ...
This Tuesday, I joined Koleinu members on the steps of City Hall in solidarity with the Ali Forney Center and LGBTQ homeless youth to protest Mayor Bloomberg’s announced budget cuts to runaway and homeless youth services by $1.6 million -- an action that flies in the face of everything we as Jews believe in .
New York City has an estimated 3800 homeless youth, with approximately 40% of them identifying as identify as transgender, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or queer. There are currently just 75 shelter beds for LGBTQ youth in this city, and that number is about to drop.
Under these cuts, ...
We thought you might want to see the message we're sending directly to the Mayor...
To Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Mullgrav,
We, the undersigned members of the Commission on LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless
Youth, are writing to express our concern and alarm at the recently announced
cuts in DYCD support of Street Outreach and Drop-In Centers in FY11 and FY12 -
cuts that have followed shortly on the heels of previous cuts made to Out of
School Time (OST) funding that effectively ended DYCD funding for to LGBT
youth-serving
...
