Bea Arthur leaves 300K to homeless LGBT youth

[ccharles000]

Just when thought you couldn't miss this woman more, we find that Bea Arthur has left $300,000 to the Ali Forney Center in New York, an organization that supports homeless LGBT youth.

The center supplies a number of services to youth around the city, including food, emergency housing, medical treatment and HIV testing. The announcement of Bea's donation came with the center's plans to build a house that will shelter 12 homeless youth and name the building in her honor. Executive director Carl Siciliano said they were "overwhelmed with gratitude that Bea saw that LGBT youth deserve as much love and support as any other young person and that she placed so much value in the work we do to protect them and to help them rebuild lives." Thank you, Bea.

The Ali Forney Center was named after a homeless queer teen who dedicated his life to helping other homeless queer youth, was an HIV prevention worker, and advocated for the NYPD to investigate a series of murders of homeless queer youth in New York City. In December of 1997, Ali was murdered.

Check out more about the org here. http://www.aliforneycenter.org/about.html

http://www.feministing.com/archives/018597.html

:cry: God I miss her.

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. She is even more terrific than I thought,

and I thought she was one of the best!

[Mrs. Overall]

2. I loved Bea Arthur. Now that's a humanitarian.

[supernova]

Dammit. Missed her

on our list of famous funny ladies yesterday.

Miss you, Bea!

:loveya:

[Captain Hilts]

4. Go put her on there!

[supernova]

8. Done!

:D

[Captain Hilts]

3. A truly golden girl...nt

[glinda]

5. She was top notch all the way. Miss her also.

[wicket]

6. Bless her

O8)

[Spazito]

7. Wonderful, wonderful woman....

This makes me respect her even more.

Thanks for posting this, it is much appreciated.

Recommended.

[closeupready]

9. Then there's Maude, the exceptional.

God bless her. :)

[Soylent Brice]

10. that's awesome!!

[DainBramaged]

11. She shames those who claim to be working for the public good even after her death

like Joe FUCKING ASSHOLE LIEberman. Or John "call me Banner" Bonner.

Brought a tear to this jaundiced old eye yes it did.

:cry:

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Bea was a great lady

And this wonderful news does not surprise me one bit. One of a kind.

[keroro gunsou]

18. truly

one of a kind, a broad of the old school who had her priorities in order.

[felinetta]

13. Just heard the Republicans want to pass resolution immediately to honor the 9/12

patriots. (They even say that there were up to 1.7 million in
Washington DC). If we are going to
have Congress honoring people, Bea Arthur would be perfect.

[LynneSin]

16. Honor them for what - LYING about how many showed up

:eyes:

Republicans have no shame.

Bea Arthur - class all the way. Bea has more class in her lil pinky than all those teabaggers out there!

[Heidi]

14. Thank you for this thread, ccharles.

Recommended.

:kick:

[redqueen]

15. That is so touching.

Thanks for posting this.

[Vidar]

17. She always was a class act.

[tekisui]

19. That is beautiful. Thank you, Bea Arthur.

[ccharles000]

20. kick

[Echo In Light]

21. Rec

[donheld]

22. That's Maude!

[donheld]

23. That's Maude!

[Toasterlad]

24. Thank You, Bea! We Miss You!

[Autonomy]

25. She was damn funny

I've seen a few episodes of Golden Girls recently, and I was surprised at how funny it actually was. Bea Arthur with her GLBT support, and Betty White with her animal rights support, the cast was a truly amazing group.