Fearful of LGBTQ Backlash? Let CenterLink Help You Find Your People!
LGBTQ community centers can help you find and create support even in the worst of times. I should know.
LGBTQ community centers collectively serve over 58,700 people each week, or over 3 million people per year. Further, they refer nearly 14,800 individuals per week, or about 770,000 people per year, to other agencies or providers, such as LGBTQ-friendly medical providers, lawyers, or businesses.
Are you scared today? Lots of queer people are, especially transgender people. As an older cisgender gay man, I’m scared. I live in a very rural, very conservative part of the United States, just a quick hop from a town where taxpayers voted to eliminate their public library rather than let it shelve queer-positive books like Heartstopper. You should have seen the newspaper editorials! Since the election, anti-queer sentiment has become louder, and I feel even more like a stranger in a strange land.
But after a phone call the other day with CenterLink, I reached out to a local group, and I might already have found community I didn’t know existed. I bet you can too.
At 62 years old, I’ve been here before, so let me tell you a story about how wonderful…
