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“I dream of a day where every gay youth in our country will have access to safe spaces, where no gay kid will live more than 100 miles from a space where LGBT youth can go to find community and support. But the creation of these life-saving spaces will require the passionate commitment and attention of the adult LGBT community. …

True Blood’s Denis O’Hare hosts the Ali Forney Center’s “A Place At The Table” fundraising dinner gala this Thursday in New York City, where the honorees include furniture mogul/activist Mitchell Gold and a certain “perverted atheist leatherman blogger.” Get tickets here. If you can’t attend, please consider making a contribution to the Ali Forney Center’s desperately needed work for homeless …

The Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth, will be holding their annual “A Place At The Table” benefit gala dinner on October 7th at 91 Horatio Street in the West Village. Get tickets here. This year’s host is openly gay Tony winning actor Denis O’Hare, whom you may best know as True Blood’s vicious vampire, Russell Edgington. …

Georgia teen Derrick Martin has partnered with the Trevor Project and other groups to create Project Life Vest, an organization meant to assist LGBT youth facing discrimination after they come out. You may recall that Martin was kicked out of his home in March after attending his high school prom with his boyfriend. “My situation and the attention it has …

On Wednesday July 21st, the Ali Forney Center will hold a summer benefit party at Hudson Terrace. Get tickets here and help support AFC’s vital work for NYC’s homeless LGBT youth. Facebook event page here. RELATED: Visit Frank And Gabe today for a great interview with AFC’s mega-hunky executive director Carl Siciliano.

Several hundred activists rallied in New York City’s Union Square last night in support of homeless LGBT youth. The rally, which was sponsored by the Ali Forney Center, featured speeches from Lt. Dan Choi and actress Sandra Bernhard among others. Frank And Gabe reports: One of the event’s prominent speakers was Lt. Dan Choi, who brought an incredible emotional resonance …

A just-opened Queens residence for clients of the Ali Forney Center, which serves the city’s homeless LGBT youth, was defaced with anti-gay graffiti yesterday. Via press release: The Ali Forney Center’s newly opened shelter for homeless LGBT youth in Astoria Queens was defaced last night with anti-gay graffiti. At 6am this morning, two of the residents of the shelter discovered …

The Ali Forney Center will hold a rally in support of LGBT youth on June 14th at NYC’s Union Square. As LGBT youth find the courage to come out of the closet at younger ages, thousands are being rejected by their families and forced out of their homes. As many as 40% of the homeless youth in the United States …

On last night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice, Cyndi Lauper’s team won their makeover challenge, netting $20K for Lauper’s True Colors homeless shelter for LGBT youth. The subject of Lauper’s makeover, rising country star Emily West, then announced that she was donating 100% of the iTunes sales for her new single (below) to True Colors. Get it here.

The Ali Forney Center’s annual Broadway Beauty Pageant takes place Monday, April 19th at Symphony Space in Manhattan. The Ali Forney Center serves NYC’s homeless LGBT youth. Handsome hunks from your favorite Broadway shows competing to raise money for the Ali Forney Center, an organization that provides shelter and services to homeless LGBT youth in New York City. Join host …

Another homeless charity is suffering the wrath of the Catholic Church for having the audacity to support equal rights for gays. This time it’s in Portland, Maine. A social service agency’s support for same-sex marriage has cost it local and national funding from the Catholic Church’s anti-poverty program. Preble Street’s Homeless Voices for Justice program has lost $17,400 this year …

“Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth living on the streets and in foster care need our support more than ever. In New York City, the True Colors Residence is going to play a big role in providing these young people with the leg up and encouragement they need. I am thrilled that construction has already begun and I am honored …

I get very angry at the hell so many LGBT teens are put through. A few months ago a man named Anthony reached out to me to tell me a terrible story. He knew of a teen in upstate New York whose family learned he was gay and threw him out. A few days later the boy tried to return …

Three Kalamazoo churches will stop providing meals to the homeless because of the city’s recent approval of a law protecting gays from discrimination. Martha’s Table, through which eight churches have provided Sunday afternoon worship and meals for the needy at First Congregational Church, is losing three of the churches because of the issue of homosexuality, even though the ecumenical ministry …

Broadway Speaks OUT’s holiday concert to benefit the Ali Forney Center is tomorrow (Monday). Get tickets here.

This has been a brutal year for LGBT youth. From the vicious murder last week of Jorge Mercado, to the deadly attack on the LGBT Youth Center in Tel Aviv, to the two thirteen year old boys who committed suicide in the spring because of anti-gay bullying in their schools, we see that youth are increasingly under attack by the …

One of my first days on the job at my office on E.42nd Street, back in 2001, one of my co-workers saw me stuff a dollar into the jar of the “volunteer” for the United Homeless Organization that was outside our building every day, next door to Grand Central. “Hey, that’s a scam,” he confided. “Those guys rent the table …

Next Monday, November 30th, Broadway Speaks OUT hosts A Very MARY Holiday concert to benefit the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless LGBT youth center. WHEN: November 30, 2009, 8 p.m.-10 p.m. VIP Afterparty: 10 p.m.-11 p.m.WHERE: Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street, NYCTICKET INFO: $25 mezzanine seating, $50 orchestra seating (includes passes to VIP after party) HOSTED BY: Martin Gould Cummings …

DC’s Catholic Charities is pushing forward with its threat to close its soup kitchens and homeless shelters should the city legalize same-sex marriage. A double-speaking church spokesman tells Wolf Blitzer that Catholic Charities has “no intention” of ending its help to the poor, but a moment later says that “we can’t represent something that goes against our core beliefs.”

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC has issued an ultimatum to Washington DC, saying if marriage equality is approved without an exemption for them, they will end all their social service programs including food and shelter for the homeless, adoption programs, and public health services. Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not …