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the lgbt elders. im an elder law attorney and my focus for a good 50% of my clients is on lgbt issues, financial, health, estate planning, et cetera. and what i see there is a great deal of focus on aids, on invisibility, questions on living alone or together, outliving a partner, on illness and death within our community, on housing and the lack thereof past a certain point if youre not gainfully employed or have a very huge pension from something that you did when you were gainfully ...

enhance -- open house that includes best practices for working with the lgbt older adult community called from isolation to inclusion. the curriculum engages staff at all levels, including front line direct care workers, caregivers, clinical staff, administrators and ceos so i have an acute understanding of the barriers senior service providers experience as they begin to implement the best practices for working with lgbt seniors. for the past three years ive cochaired the lgbt communi...

facilitator with sanityi, director at under one roof, a multi-year aids leader, numerous clinics, a member of glide and spent three years on the board of new leaf where i was -- on the elders program. like the others im interested in the data we can analyze to establish new policies and programs. thank you. >> chair kim: thank you. next we have michael smith and michelle alcedo. >> hello. thank you for the opportunity to speak and be considered for this position. im going to kind of sp...

stakeholder responsibility. im a big picture guy who can look across issues and find major issues. two last things. one is i understand finance and budget. whatever we propose has to be both fundable and sustainable. and i think we need expertise -- >> chair kim: i need to have you wrap up faster than that. >> thank you very much. >> chair kim: thank you. i was actually -- your center today, and as always am appreciative of the work you do no our community. >> thanks very much. >> chai...

hit and people were being evicted. i was part of a defense team that helped defend these folks from their evictions. i helped set up three shelters, a food program and shower project for homeless queer youth who were victims of the dotcome boom. i worked among low income tenants in san francisco including a number of lgbt seniors who are my regular clients. i also worked extensively on 55 laguna in it terms of helping keep that affordable. finally i think my vision for such a task forc...

opportunity, based on my experience as a disabled man with liv to talk all these programs, all this immense outreach, and convert that into the services that our senior community needs. ive presented a possible idea to bevan dufty last month about cooling housing income, that seniors get in this city. i think that the shanti model could be used for peer support for our seniors. we have so many resources, i think that this committee has the opportunity to bring some of these resources t...

>> i was born in san francisco. i was born in the haight, and i spent my early years in the mission, and i live in the castro, and i live in district two right now. ive been an activist for over 40 years, and do have my résume. what i didnt include on there is that im a father, and a grandfather at this point, and im very proud of that. and i was excited about the task force because i feel that its an issue that i feel very strongly about. im 75, and alive and active at this point. an...

human beings. i think that in order to make sense of the enormous differences between human beings including the qualitative differences, the good ones, the bad ones, the mediocre ones, you have you have to accept that most people give direction to their intelligence. their intelligence is an instrument and not an end in itself. >> host: well, as we close out here weve shown a lot of your books. and we talked about your difference methods of communication. but youre blogging regularly ...

in america to craft its own mythology and its own image. the panel of people up here, all of them are experts in what it is were talking about today. the work of william deverell, you know extensively. he can tell you anything about southern california history backwards and forwards. im often glad to welcome him on my radio program. thank you for being here. >> thank you. [applause] [applause] the latest book of his, a companion to los angeles. it will be out with all the other books a...