BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Associate Editor
A group of HIV/AIDS advocates will hold a drag fundraiser in Worcester on April 19 to raise money for a new fund designed to help transgender people facing financial distress.
Jesse Pack, founder of the Transgender Emergency Fund and a staff member at AIDS Project Worcester, said that the fund will help low-income transgender people pay vital expenses like healthcare co-pays and utility bills. Pack created the fund as a response to the hardships that he has seen his clients at AIDS Project Worcester face. He said as a result of discrimination many of his clients have lost their jobs and their housing, and without legal protections against discrimination his clients have few options for protecting themselves.