LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Wtern Rerve Universy

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND
• LAMBERT HOE EMPOWERS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG YOUTH THROUGH THE VELOPMENT OF LEARSHIP, SOCIAL, AND LIFE SKILLS.
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

The LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND was rporated by Arthur G.

LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND

Ericksen on 8 May 1975 as the GEAR (Gay Edutnal and Awarens Rourc) Foundatn, Cleveland's first lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny anizatn.

Its missn was to nduct rearch and tnal activi the area of human sexualy, to provi facili and rehabilative servic for the homophile muny the areas of mental and physil health and social alternativ, and to provi endowment fundg for qualifyg homophile anizatns, persons, and events. And was publishg Oh's first gay newspaper, HIGH GEAR (t. In 1988 s name changed to the Lbian/Gay Communy Service Center of Greater Cleveland.

LAMBERT HOE EMPOWERS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG YOUTH THROUGH THE VELOPMENT OF LEARSHIP, SOCIAL, AND LIFE SKILLS.

This crease fundg and membership donatns allowed the Center to support a wi variety of programs the 1980s and 1990s, cludg a telephone hotle program, a lendar of events of tert to the gay/lbian muny, and outreach programs signed to bat homophobia the larger muny. In 1988 the center also opened the Livg Room program, which provid support to persons the HIV spectm, and began the novative PRYSM (Prence and Rpect for Youth Sexual Mory) which provis a fom and social support group for young gay and lbian people.

In 1991 the center, njunctn wh the WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, workg wh Aubrey Wertheim, then the director, tablished the Northeast Oh Lbian/Gay Archiv to llect and prerve the rerds of the lbian/gay muny.

Fdg aid for the Lbian/Gay Communy Service Center of Greater Cleveland Rerds, WRHS. In January 2016, the Commissn and The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center lnched a shared effort to te New Yorkers about the history and rights of the transgenr muny. Lambert Hoe is a safe place for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng (LGBTQ) youth ag 10-22.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

However, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by ath the Gulf state where he will now play football.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER

”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

"Earlier this month, acrdg to Pennsylvania Gay News – a lol outlet verg LGBTQ issu the cy – William Way was alloted $2 ln Philalphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s cy FY 2024 operatg budget. "The event, acrdg to the Philly Gay Calendar, highlighted "drag performers, who share cultural, environmental, queer and lonial visns of a future, " and "the way lonialism affected both land and people.