Center on Halsted - Chigo's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Communy Center

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For s, the William Way LGBT Communy Center has sat at the heart of Philalphia’s gayborhood, offerg art shows, unselg servic, vacce clics and a slew of other health and hog assistance to rints as the center’s agg headquarters started to show s wear, s lears turned to Washgton for some help. 8 ln feral aid for renovatns — until Hoe Republins mounted an extraordary blocka this week, nyg a requt to fund the anizatn and other lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced groups two last year’s electns, Republin lawmakers creasgly have seized on the power of the feral purse, uplg their csa for stery wh a fierce ph to advance a nservative social agenda. In state legislatur across the untry, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a rerd number of rtrictns that lim gay and transgenr rights, while the GOP’s printial ndidat have attacked transgenr athlet and rebed schools that teach about genr inty.

The LGBT Centre groups together a variety of gay, lbian, bi- and transsexual associatns and offers legal aid and a range of advice. Sce 1983, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center has served as a val support system for hundreds of thoands of people. By the time the Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center was tablished here 1983, the buildg had operated unr a number of different nam, the last beg the Food and Marime High School.

After rentg space here, the Center – sce renamed the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center – bought the cy-owned buildg 1984. Some signifint anizatns clu the Metropolan Communy Church of New York, here om 1983 to 1994; Men of All Colors Together (MACT; origally Black and Whe Men Together); Gay and Lbian Youth; the Lbian Swchboard; Digny/New York, a Catholic gay and lbian anizatn; Asian Lbians of the East Coast (ALOEC); Harvey Milk High School; South Asian Lbian and Gay Associatn (SALGA); Salsa Soul Sisters; and Senr Actn a Gay Environment (SAGE; now Servic & Advocy for GLBT Elrs), which met here for over 20 years.

Other anizatns found at the Center were the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (now known as GLAAD) 1985; Other Countri 1986, a llective of Black gay male wrers named honor of Jam Baldw‘s Another Country (the group was the succsor to Blackheart Collective); Las Buenas Amigas 1987, a Lata lbian group; Queer Natn 1990; and the Lbian Avengers 1992. The Coaln for Lbian and Gay Rights, a tenant, was the leadg muny anizatn to promote the gay rights bill, which was approved by the New York Cy Council 1986.