The Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s Board of Directors elected new officers effective January 1, 2022 and celebrated two outgoing Board members for their years of service at the conclusion of 2021. The Center bid farewell to two extraordinary people who have served the Board of Directors with great passion, [...]
Join Aaron Armer and Elizah Claborne as they Discuss trans women throughout history to connect their experiences to the present by having a casual, cross-generational conversation between to people of the Black, Trans experience and to recap Trans Family Day and the importance of chosen family. This workshop will [...]
You may have noticed that Lavender Heights got a nice surprise Thursday morning! As part of a partnership between the Midtown Association and Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce & Foundation, 10 vibrant new banners are on proud display on 20th street between [...]
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center has joined over a hundred organizations in calling for the Biden Administration to create a national Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) grant program to increase awareness and access to PrEP and related services. PrEP (a medicine people at risk for HIV take to prevent getting [...]
Mental health should be an ongoing discussion in the Black community. Often times, issues are not taken seriously because of the shame and stigma associated with mental health. Also, feelings are often invalidated or not taken seriously by family members leaving many people, especially youth, afraid to have this [...]
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center is honoring Black excellence, culture, and experiences with its Celebrating Black Evolution: Past, Present, & Future series all February long. Tune in as we share stories, have conversations, and resource share with community. Every Thursday, we will be connecting with community to have discussions, [...]
2021. What a year for our Youth Programs! We started this year fully virtual, providing youth an online space via discord to meet up, hang out, and do activities. Fast forward to December, we’ve now transitioned to hybrid physical/virtual programming ensuring that we can continue to engage both youth [...]
2021 marks 40 years since AIDS was discovered in 1981. "Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome" (or commonly known as AIDS) is a chronic and potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (or commonly known as HIV). We dedicate every December 1 to raising awareness of the global AIDS pandemic [...]
Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s most influential founder, Jerry Sloan, passes away Jerry Sloan, one of the Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s most Influential founders, passed away Monday, November 15. Most famously, Jerry is known for his successful 1984 lawsuit for breach of an oral contract against the late televangelist Reverend [...]
Dear Friend: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all our lives in unimaginable ways. Our work, schools, relationships, and our individual well-being have all suffered. I’m very proud that at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center we have not only persevered through these challenges, but thrived. We adapted services like offering [...]
