Helping Our Trans Sister Maci Jane

This is my friend Maci Jane. She doesn’t have COVID-19. But she is in Pasadena’s Huntington Beach Hospital with a serious, as yet undiagnosed immune-suppressing complication related to her ongoing battle with Diverticulitis. Many of my trans sisters and brothers will know Maci. She is a legend not only as a former rock guitarist and the long-time manager of the Viper Room but most of all as a champion trans woman who has been knocked down and beaten over the past few years and shaken herself off with humor and raw guts. Now she’s up against financial and medical issues she can’t beat with shere guts. She lives really frugally but has no reserves and when she gets out of the hospital she has to choose between doing her food delivery job or not making rent. Yes, she has eviction protections for a time but she has been homeless before and the reality is that she doesn’t have the earning power, or the physical strength or health to make that money back. She told me she was going to try to do this GoFundMe herself and she was embarrassed about saying she was only going to goal-out $2,500 to $3000 so she could take a month off and make rent. But I asked her if I could do it and if we could try to raise $6000 for her, two months of being at home and meeting her medical copayments. I am only giving a $100 myself but if all her many friends and admirers, especially folks in the LGBT community, can do a little we can raise this easily for her and save someone that is really, really worthy of our love and care. So that’s what I’m asking. Give a few bucks, what you can, to help my friend stay home and stay safe. I really believe her life depends on that help. Thank you for caring!