The document discusses the importance of an LGBT community center. It provides community development and a safe space for the LGBT community. It also works to preserve the history of the LGBT rights movement through its archives and library. The center has grown in importance over time as a meeting place for advocacy groups and support networks. It argues that such community centers are still needed to continue the struggle for equality.

1. LGBT community center
By Jason McLeod

2. The importance of the center
• Community development
• Safe community
• Preservation of history
• https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/_ALS39jn_vdqLg
• https://gaycenter.org/about/history

3. trends
• Community and togetherness
• Struggle for equality
• Ingenuity
• "NYC Lesbian & Gay Center Hosts Hudson Valley Event." In The Life: The Mid Hudson Valley's Monthly Lesbian &
Gay Newspaper, July 1998, 6. Archives of Sexuality & Gender (accessed April 2, 2017).
http://tinyurl.galegroup.com.ezproxy.trincoll.edu/tinyurl/4dCEm8.
• Moore, Mignon R. 2006. “Lipstick or Timberlands? Meaning of gender presentation in black lesbian communities.”_Signs:
Journal of women in culture and society_32(1): 113-139
• George Chauncey, Privacy could only be had in public: Gay uses of the streets Princeton architecture press, 2006

4. research
• Jstor, google scholar, NYT

5. argument
• Need
• Meeting place

6. Argument cont.
• Act-UP, Lesbian avengers, GLAAD, Queer
Nation
• Support groups and 12 step
• Archive
• Library
• https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/_ALS39jn_vdqLg
• https://gaycenter.org/archives
• "New York Lesbian & Gay Community Center Creates National Museum of Lesbian & Gay History." Equal Times: The
Community's Best Friend, June 1, 1989, 13. Archives of Sexuality & Gender (accessed April 2, 2017).
http://tinyurl.galegroup.com.ezproxy.trincoll.edu/tinyurl/4dAk33.

7. In class
• Lipstick or timberlands
• Moore, Mignon R. 2006. “Lipstick or Timberlands? Meaning of gender presentation in black lesbian communities.”_Signs:
Journal of women in culture and society_32(1): 113-139

8. Out of class
• Hudson valley
• Phillip morris
• "NYC Lesbian & Gay Center Hosts Hudson Valley Event." In The Life: The Mid Hudson Valley's Monthly Lesbian & Gay Newspaper, July
1998, 6. Archives of Sexuality & Gender (accessed April 2, 2017). http://tinyurl.galegroup.com.ezproxy.trincoll.edu/tinyurl/4dCEm8.
• Offen, N., E. A. Smith, and R. E. Malone. "From Adversary to Target Market: The ACT-UP Boycott of Philip Morris." Tobacco Control 12,
no. 2 (2003): 203-07. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20208127.

9. Plaque
• Describes the significance of the center

10. Conclusion
• Growing importance
• Historical significance