Tried to helpPeople in the Castro had reached out to help Zero, to no avail. Billy Lemon, executive director of the Castro Country Club, a clean and sober space, wrote in an email to the Bay Area Reporter: "Both Brandon [Stanton, assistant director] and I tried for about six months to help Zero ...
trying to direct him to treatment, as we know it is an important first step for healing." Lemon said that like many other locals, Zero knew the country club was a space that was safe."I think Zero needs supportive care.
I'm not a social worker so I can't say for sure what that would look like. I can say that folks living on the street (as he did at the time) suffer from events that make it hard to ask for help.