Out100 list: Leader of Chicago LGBTQ+ community center in Hyde Park, Channyn Lynne Parker, honored by Out Magazine [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — An LGBTQ+ community center in the Hyde Park neighborhood is known for helping Chicago’s transgender and gender-nonconforming community.

Its leader, Channyn Lynne Parker, is now in the national spotlight. She’s being honored by OUT Magazine as one of this year’s “Out100.”

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It is big month for the local woman who leads an organization which helps people who are often marginalized.

Parker leads the “Brave Space Alliance” in Hyde Park. She calls it an organization for the “T” LGBQ Plus community.

“We say ‘T’ LGBQ Plus because we know that the LGBTQ community, trans folks experienced the most marginalization and are experiencing the most emergency and crisis,” Parker said.

Brave Space Alliance also provides, food, health services, housing and clothing for transgender people and gender-nonconforming people in need.

“[At] our walk-in clothing closet… individuals are able to access gender affirming clothes,” …