Sidebar With John Duran

FIRST SEGMENT – JOHN GILE – He was the first Executive Director of Project Angel Food. He is a professional fundraiser and has raised more money for AIDS and LGBT causes than probably anyone else in the nation.He has literally raised tens of millions of dollars for charities ranging from the Center, APLA, the AIDS Monument, the Gay Mens Chorus of LA, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the Point Foundation, Project Angel Food, Trevor, etc. What motivated him to be the rain maker for so many LGBT causes and charities across the nation? SECOND SEGMENT – AL BALLESTEROS – President of John Wesley Health Center.  Also the founder and publisher of ADELANTE Magazine for LGBT Latinos.He has served on the boards of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights commission, Being Alive, the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV/AIDS, the Ryan White Planning Council. He now runs a $90 million organization helping provide medical care to homeless, immigrant and indigent patients. An Extraordinary Life! THIRD SEGMENT – CURTIS GALLOWAY – President of Conversion Therapy Dropouts.   A support group for LGBT people who “dropped out” or “failed” conversion therapy. He will talk about the trauma these therapies inflict on LGBT people and why they should be outlawed as California did.