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• ABOUT GAY CY
• LGBTQ+ TREATMENT CENTERS SEATTLE, WA
• ABOUT GAY CY

ABOUT GAY CY

Gay, Lbian, Trans*, and those patients between often have signifint distst of the medil muny - the rult of an abily of provirs to relate to or unrstand them, the fear of beg judged, and the worst s, outright discrimatn. Gay Cy celebrat more than 25 years of buildg rilience and joy our LGBTQ muni. In 1995, a group of muny activists lnched Gay Cy wh a bold visn of buildg a muny stronger than HIV while centerg queer voic.

LGBTQ+ TREATMENT CENTERS SEATTLE, WA

Today, Gay Cy remas the leadg HIV/STI tter Kg County, home to several LGBTQ-affirmg servic, and provis accs to several diverse rourc. Gay Cy Podst. If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place.

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ABOUT GAY CY

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Seattle Gay Clic, Seattle-Kg County Public Health AIDS Preventn Project. He tght at Shorter College, a historilly Black llege North Ltle Rock, Arkansas begng 1970, and 1972, he moved back to Seattle orr to live more openly as a gay man.

At the time, Burak was the only openly gay man workg at the Health Department, and he beme terted gay men’s health issu after havg had some unfortunate experienc his own partment’s venereal disease clic. Clic was hoed the same buildg as the Seattle Police Department headquarters, and there was still a great al of mistst between the gay muny and the health partment, gog back to the 1940’s when venereal disease trackg was done g methods that blurred the l between disease preventn and police actns.

When a group of muny activists started the Seattle Gay Clic 1979, to provi an alternative to the Health Department’s V. In the early 1980’s, when volunteers at the clic began to see patients who showed signs and symptoms of what would later bee known as AIDS, Burak worked to rolve tensns between the Health Department and the gay muny orr fd ways to llaborate and ensure that gay men would feel safe when seekg re lol medil and public health stutns.

The Seattle Gay Clic created a Directory of Gay-Sensive Physicians, and enlisted a work of health re provirs, many of whom would bee lears the muny rponse as lol AIDS s creased later the 1980’s. Burak nceived and was a -founr of the Chicken Soup Briga, a sp-off of Seattle Gay Clic’s outreach mtee, which provid supportive servic for people livg wh AIDS.

Fally, a facily was found, and the AIDS Preventn Project was able to beg s work and to expand s purview to clu providg and evaluatg tn mpaigns and servic for populatns beyond the gay muny that were at risk for HIV fectn, cludg jectn dg ers, sex-dtry workers, muni of lor, women at risk, and street youth. People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr have a variety of health needs.

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