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long-term care coordinating council in san francisco and i have a deep commitment to making sure that services are available to our community. thank you. thank you. any questions? seeing none, thank you very much. thank you. next person is nikos diaman. ray rudolph. richard appleby. rick crane. robert connors. valerie agostino. veronika fimbres. william kirkpatrick. william lipsky. so, i didn t call several of the names that there were indications they wouldn t be here. so, i didn t want to miss anybody. is there anybody on this list that i did not call, just in case you are here? seeing none, okay. are there any public comments for this item? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. supervisor cohen. i have a question for the city attorney. i was wondering if you can tell me what is the makeup of this body? maybe the clerk of the board, i m not quite sure. so, the task force is made up of how many people and particularly want to know how many men, ho ....
the boardshire fellow in law and aging at bay area legal aid where i started the project for glbt senior advocacy in september and the project is basically concerned with providing legal representation and advice concerning public benefits for lgbt seniors. the project is trying to ensure that lgbt seniors do not low-income lgbt seniors do not disappear from our community if something goes wrong with their benefits. and so far we ve had some successes and we had some challenges. but the project will continue for the rest of this year and i have made this my last career. i suffered a period of illness and disability with hiv/aids. i recognize that as well as the doctors helped me, the lawyers helped me, too. i decided there was something i could do to repay the community that had supported me when i was in need and when i was vulnerable. so, i went to law school at the age of 53. i m now 57. i m enjoying very much working with seniors. they ve got great stories to tell ....
regardless of hiv status, regardless of income, and it has a broad range of men in fact, we offer two groups. it s been a very popular outreach. in addition, i developed a training on the mental health needs which has been provided locally for various community organizations as well as graduate programs as well as nationally and next month i will be in australia at the melbourne health and difference conference which is a national conference on lgbt mental health issues, health issues and i will be presenting on mental health issues at that conference. i am an active member of the community partnership and also a member of the hiv and aging policy. what i bring, i hope, is the unique perspective to mental health to the committee and i would be honored to be selected as one of the members. thank you. thank you. any questions? seeing none, thank you very much. next person is moll steinert. good afternoon, my name is mollie steinert. i have both a personal and prof ....
the lgbt elders. i m 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 you re not gainfully employed or have a very huge pension from something that you did when you were gainfully employed, you might be out on the streets in san francisco. i have not done much political work here. i have been this is a mid-life career change for me. i was a college professor. i was [speaker not understood] at san francisco state when it was largely lesbian. i ve been on the aids legal referral panel. in fact, the first work i did as an attorney was at my tree when it was still on henry street. i ve worked at the [speaker not understood] nclr elder love forum. i m past president ....