WINTER GEAR FOR A HOMELESS GAY MARRIED COUPLE

NOTE: This campaign ended at midnight on 10/31/22 to give our donors a break before Orthodoxy in Dialogue's 7th annual Nativity Fast campaign to provide meals for the homeless on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Please keep watch for the beginning of this fundraiser on November 15.

Giacomo Sanfilippo here, founding editor of the world-renowned Orthodoxy in Dialogue.

I've befriended a homeless gay married couple here in Toronto, Bobby and Lawrence (not them in the photo), and their dogs Parker and Ritz. I buy them coffee and a sandwich as my limited resources allow. I've offered, once the weather turns cold, to have them stay over once a week, do their laundry, shower and shave, enjoy a home-cooked supper, sleep in my queen-size bed while I sleep on the daybed in the living room, and start the next day with a hot breakfast in the morning.

My reason for turning to you is that my friends are approaching our frigid Canadian winter months wearing little more than spring jackets and crocs. I need your help getting them into boots, parkas, mittens, toques, and sleeping bags of a quality as good as we more fortunate people buy for ourselves. Any money left over after we provide these basic needs will be handed to them as cash to be used at their discretion.

I can't do this alone. Please help.