Many homeless are veterans or victims of domestic abuse. In addition, Austin school district ... Somewhere atop that great shopping cart in the sky, Leslie is smoking a bummed cigarette and ...

Some kid pointed out his big bike cart and near-naked body. Someone else responded with, “Oh, that’s Leslie ... homeless man to the list of new things I was learning about Austin (including ...

“It’s a thing of the past,” Leslie Cochran says in the ... publicly protesting the Austin Police Department’s treatment of the homeless in the city. “He would literally print out on ...

Leslie was a vocal advocate for the rights of the city’s homeless population following several run-ins with the Austin Police Department. “It’s important to remember that his spirit was ...

the man who dared to campaign for Mayor of Austin, Texas while walking down busy streets in an exposed thong. Leslie Cochran was a homeless man who became an activist, celebrity and finally was ...

Impact Link On a sunny Thursday morning in Austin, Robin Draper is scurrying across Community First Village preparing tiny homes for their soon-to-be-formerly-homeless tenants. The 27-acre village ...

When news broke in Austin last month that Leslie, the cross-dressing homeless man, mayoral candidate, and symbol of “weird” Austin, would be leaving town for Colorado, the metaphorical ...