"We lesbians had to march in the gay pride parade together with the guys who were dragging a twenty-foot papier-mâché penis down Hollywood Boulevard!"
[7][8] It was at first based in the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center in Hollywood, but soon became a separate nonprofit and found its own space at a pair of historic houses in the city's Pico-Union neighborhood.
In her last job, she was executive director of WomenShelter in Long Beach, which offered emergency housing to women who were escaping domestic violence.
Weathers died from lung cancer in 2005, at the age of 68, at her home in Long Beach, California.
[4] In 2012 she received a posthumous Rainbow Key Award from the Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board of the Los Angeles City Council.