HOUSTON — Life has thrown a lot of roadblocks at Dina Jacobs, a transgender woman, for trying to live authentically. But now, she can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
“Look, everything comes through eventually. Five million no’s and one yes, and this is it. This is my yes!” says Jacobs, who spent her 57-year career on stage as a drag performer.
Jacobs, a Hawaiian native, is showing a reporter the modest one-bedroom apartment she is now able to rent for less than $500 a month in the first residence in the southern United States exclusively for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) people.
Formally inaugurated on Thursday, the Law Harrington cen…
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