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Berkeley — Pacific Center for Human Growth; Los Angeles — Los Angeles LGBT Center; San Diego — The San Diego LGBT Community Center; Oakland — Oakland LGBTQ Community Center; San Francisco — SF LGBT Center; San Francisco — Queer Cultural Center; San Jose — Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
List of LGBTQ medical organizations, consisting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer medical professionals, promoting LGBTQ health, or supportive and affirming of the LGBTQ community. International
[7] [8] The Center became a social and political focus for the gay community known now as The San Diego LGBT Community Center. [9] In June 1974 the Center hosted a gay pride event which included a yard sale and potluck dinner at the Center as well as an informal parade to Balboa Park and back. Marchers had to walk on the sidewalk since they had ...
In 1996 the San Francisco LGBT Community Center was incorporated, and it opened its solar-powered, 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) facility in 2002. Its mission is "to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies."
Various issues in medicine relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. According to the US Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), besides HIV/AIDS, issues related to LGBTQ health include breast and cervical cancer, hepatitis, mental health, substance use disorders, alcohol use, tobacco use, depression, access to care for transgender persons, issues surrounding ...
The Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center opened on March 1, 1981, in a two-room storefront on Keyes St. in south downtown San Jose, a year after Santa Clara County residents voted to repeal ordinances extending housing and employment protections to lesbians and gay men. The new DeFrank Center emerged from a desire to respond to that ...
In August 2021, San Francisco became the first jurisdictional city in the world by proclamation and executive order to officially legally recognize Transgender History Month. [125] Later, in 2023, the California State Assembly approved House Resolution 57, establishing August as Transgender History Month throughout California beginning in ...
CenterLink is an American LGBT organization which was founded in 1994 as a member-based coalition to support the development of strong, sustainable, LGBTQ community centers. CenterLink produces an annual Leadership Summit for executive directors and board leaders of LGBTQ community centers and provides technical assistance and support to over ...