Lorri Jean, CEO of the L.A. LGBT Center, announced Tuesday a name and logo change for the organization in addition to a $25 million expansion plan that will create an all-encompassing LGBT campus in the heart of Hollywood.
Frontiers LA.com reported that Jean, with longtime Center supporters Lily Tomlin and philanthropist Anita May Rosenstein, announced that the Center—under its new name the Los Angeles LGBT Center—launched a $25-million fundraising campaign to build a facility across the street from The Village at Ed Gould Plaza that will house 100 beds for homeless LGBT youth and more than 100 units of affordable housing for young adults and low-income seniors. Recently, the Center announced that it is taking over the operation of Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing at Triangle Square, a process that is still in the works.
Jean announced that $19 million of the $25 million campaign has already been pledged by donors, including a lead gift of $6.5 million from Rosenstein, Wilbur May and Anita & Arnold Rosenstein Family Foundations. “This is the largest gift ever given by a living person to an LGBT organization,” the Center says in a press release. The project is expected to break ground in 2016, with construction taking two years.
