Bronx Community Pride Center

Website: 

http://www.bronxpride.org

Mission: 
<b>The Bronx Community Pride Center is committed to nurturing and empowering members of our community to enjoy and realize their full potential. We provide direct social services, cultural sensitivity trainings, community education and a home to promote the health, education, social growth and well-being of the Bronx LGBT community.</b>

In 1995 a group of seasoned Bronx LGBT activists,
community leaders, residents and health care practitioners mobilized to
address the lack of sensitive and informed medical and social services
available to the Bronx LGBT community. The Bronx Community Pride Center
began as a referral hotline and training source to link LGBT people to
appropriate care and train medical and social service providers, staff
and medical students to understand the unique needs of the LGBT
population in the Bronx. During this time the organization was known as
The Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium.After
incorporating in 1996, the Consortium operated out of a small office in
the South Bronx, which attracted local LGBT teens looking for a safe
space, emotional support and services. Before long there were many LGBT
people living in the Bronx advocating to build the Consortium into a
thriving organization to serve the community for years to come, not
just to serve the needs of LGBT teens, but to create a necessary
resource for seniors, and the LGBT community in general. Ten years
later, the Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium has
literally served as a lifeline for many of NYC’s most vulnerable
citizens. Historically, a large population of LGBT residents have been
excluded from social services, disenfranchised, verbally harassed and
endured bias related violence. The lack of a safe space in the Bronx
has driven most organizing projects that dared to form, to extinction.
In 2004, Lisa Winters was hired as the Executive Director and has
presided over a whirlwind of activity and exciting growth. The
organization has expanded dramatically. In its new expanded role, it
has been renamed, The Bronx Community Pride Center. The significant
growth affirms how essential The Bronx Community Pride Center is and
has become for LGBT people in the Bronx. The Bronx Community Pride
Center is providing the community critical direct services, skills
building and programming to empower the Bronx LGBT community.

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