because arthritis is very painful, but now i do not feel like i have got it because i have got a place to go. open house will help us and give you less work. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors but i am with a senior action network. i am one of the baby boomers that supervisor campos was talking about earlier. i am the youngest one in the bunch. i want to speak on two issues. we need to educate our paramedics. i am living with hiv/aids. i wrap myself a real tight to catch two buses to kaiser permanente 80 stand up in the cold and rain to deal with the repair and maintenance to deal with the paramedics that are not generous. as a transgender woman of color at 80, it is hard to work with people who cannot identify, nor tolerate, someone who is different than they are. another issue, and director, resource guide, that guides seniors to where senior services are. that needs to be upgraded to include the areas that serve the seniors and that they are lgbt senior-friendly. i
them, i would be in my home, in my closet, and diving slowly, because arthritis is very painful, but now i do not feel like i have got it because i have got a place to go. open house will help us and give you less work. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors but i am with a senior action network. i am one of the baby boomers that supervisor campos was talking about earlier. i am the youngest one in the bunch. i want to speak on two issues. we need to educate our paramedics. i am living with hiv/aids. i wrap myself a real tight to catch two buses to kaiser permanente 80 stand up in the cold and rain to deal with the repair and maintenance to deal with the paramedics that are not generous. as a transgender woman of color at 80, it is hard to work with people who cannot identify, nor tolerate, someone who is different than they are. another issue, and director, resource guide, that guides seniors to where senior services are. that needs to be upgraded to include the areas th
i am a board member at senior action network. thank you very much for having this hearing, which is very important. as supervisor olague mentioned, prior to being called to duty by the mayor, she was a staff person that senior action network. in fact, she was our program manager for housing advocacy. and i know, i pretty clear for seniors and persons with disabilities, i know how frustrated she was, as well as the rest of us, when people would come in and call and ask about low-income housing, and all we could do was show them a list so that they could be put on a waiting list. the key word being waiting. it is not easy when you are a senior and you really need housing, particularly as people that we spoke to prior and as this film show, the vulnerability of lgbt seniors in looking for housing. the other issue we have recently been taking up, and again, when supervisor olague was with senior action network, she lit our program for seniors and persons with disabilities at sro
good morning, good afternoon peter i am pam. i am 55. and i love my city. that is why we are here. we love our city, and we want to stay. we want to be safe in our city. we have worked here, paid rent, you know, did all this that heterosexuals do, and you all know that already. i just want to say that all of us have been through a lot already, and we re just asking for help, so help us to live the rest of our lives more gentle, more loving. some of these people that i know have been through a lot. i have a friend in a hotel that has been raped and abused because she was a lesbian, the mission hotel. and i lost a friend because she had to move away. she lost her support here. she lost open house, which was very great. and i want to say, open house is a very, very special to me and to my friends, because without them, i would be in my home, in my closet, and diving slowly, because arthritis is very painful, but now i do not feel like i have got it because i have got a place t
give to lgbt people, from children to seniors. i am worried about lgbt seniors been part of what is happening to seniors in general. hundreds of thousands of seniors have parkinson s and other diseases from having thorazine and other drugs forced down their throats. 90% of people who get electroshock treatments are seniors, mostly women. [bell rings] that is not independent living. that is not human dignity. i am sorry, that video made me not very steady today. i hope we get housing and health care that does not discriminate. i hope we get health care that is not a disguise for torturing us again. so thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is sneaky. i came up here from southern california. it was supposed to be my partner, and his name was in it. but we live in a community with that was a very conservative area, and we faced discrimination. he was sick. when he got worse, i cannot visit him in the hospital. when i said he w