My Life on Purpose - Jack Castiglione
Jack Castiglione is a heroic gay man and advocate who risked his life to help others by stopping gay bashing and murders in his community of Long Beach, CA. As a gay Catholic, he worked with the Church to stop the demeaning and harmful policies of the Church. For six years, he visited people dying of AIDS to comfort them and assist them with their needs. Most impactful, he presents a plan for gay communities (and other communities) to work with local law enforcement to stop hate crimes.
GENRE: Biography
Blurb:
Jack Castiglione has been an LGBTQ rights advocate since the 1970s and had a major impact on stopping hate crimes. In 1986, he teamed up with the new Police Chief in Long Beach. CA and worked to stop gay bashing. Remarkably, the first step was to establish a hate crime reporting hotline in his home because the police were not taking these gay-bashing crimes seriously. And second, he helped train police officers on gay and lesbian sensitivity and to take crime reports from assaulted victims.
