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Sunday, October 3, 2010

A question that didn't get asked yesterday

I submitted a couple of questions to the forum yesterday, but one that didn't get asked was the one that I'd hoped would be. Here it is.

In 2008, D10 saw the highest overall vote in San Francisco in favor of Prop 8, upwards of 65% 61% in some precincts in Visitacion Valley. In 2010, a Federal Court deemed Prop 8 to be unconstitutional, and its passage to have been fed by voter animosity toward the LGBT community. D10 has the highest density number of youth in the city, and by extension, likely the highest density number of LGBT youth. However, no services targeted at those youth exist in D10, leaving them to grow up in a district that is hostile to them and that makes them vulnerable to taunting, abuse, thoughts of running away, and suicide. The effects of growing up in an unsupportive environment have been born out by several gay teen suicides over the past couple of weeks across the country. What as supervisor can you do to help change attitudes and to bring social services for at-risk LGBT youth to D10, and especially to those areas of D10 in which they are most at risk, such as Bayview and Visitacion Valley.