New local LGBTQ support services group debuts
More than two dozen people turned out July 28 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the official opening of D.C. Safe Haven, an LGBTQ community services organization, including a drop-in center, located at 331 H St., N.E.
Transgender rights advocate Iya Dammons, the founder and executive director of Baltimore Safe Haven, has been working for the past year to lay the groundwork and set up the infrastructure for D.C.
Safe Haven, she told the Washington Blade. Dammons said she would serve as interim executive director of the D.C. Safe Haven and continue as CEO of both the Baltimore and D.C.
groups after a permanent executive director is named for the D.C. Safe Haven. Among other things, D.C. Safe Haven will provide many of the important services offered by the D.C.
