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In December 1983, the New York City Board of Estimates approved the sale of the former Food and Maritime Trades High School, located at 208 West 13th Street, to the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, Inc. for $1.5 million.
LGBTQ community centers are safe meeting places for all people. Prior to the gay liberation movement, there were no LGBTQ community centers in the United States. They became popular in the 1980s following activism to combat HIV/AIDS in the LGBTQ community.
This is a list of gay villages, areas with generally recognized boundaries that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people. [1] They tend to contain a number of gay lodgings, B&Bs, bars, clubs and pubs, restaurants, cafés, and other similar businesses. Some may be gay getaways, such as Provincetown or Guerneville.
Ali Forney Center marchers in 2011. AFC has served homeless LGBTQ youth in New York since 2002. [7] The organization was founded by Carl Siciliano. [3] When AFC first opened, it had only six beds. [8] Siciliano, who knew and respected Forney, recalls that it was a challenge to secure funding for the first two years of the organization's ...
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community centers in the United States. Pages in category "LGBTQ community centers in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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The Bureau of General Services – Queer Division (BGSQD) is a queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space hosted by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. [97] Bluestockings is a cooperatively-owned queer bookstore, community space, and café operating on the Lower East Side since 1999. [98] [99]
In 1985, with funding from the New York City Department of Education, HMI established the Harvey Milk High School, the first high school in the United States that specifically catered to LGBT students. [3] HMI directly managed the school until 2002/3, when it became a fully accredited public school managed by the New York Department of Education.