The Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland

condially invites you to attend the

Grand Opening

of its new office on

1418 West 29h Street Tuesday the Eleventh of October

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Eight National Coming Out Day.

522-1999 (office)

Ribbon-cutting & press conference

11:00 am

Annual Membership Meeting

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7:00 p.m. Open House

Tours and refreshments

8:00-11:00 p.m.

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781-6736 (hotfire)

Task force news

The next training for the Buddy Program of the Health Issues Taskforce (HIT) is scheduled for October 21-23. volunteers spaces are still available for the October training.

If you would like to offer friendship and support to a person with AIDS, call the Taskforce at 621-0766. The services committee is also looking for volunteers who can assist PWAS (Persons with AIDS) in completing forms for SSI and SSD.

Services has opened a walk-in clothing center for people within the HIV spectrum at the Taskforce office. There are plenty of winter supplies, ranging from winter outwear to electric blankets. Call the Taskforce for more information.

The Taskforce has hired a full-time minority outreach coordinator to develop AIDS education and prevention programs for the Cleveland Black community. Walta DeLemosBrown joined the staff in midSeptember.

Also in September, the opening of a Spanish-speaking AIDS information line (621-5696) debuted.

As part of this education work, Executive Director Gary Reynolds and other staff and volunteers attended the National Conference on AIDS in

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Washington, D.C., in August. Reynolds and Services Committee Chair Mark Lehman will attend the National AIDS Network Skills Building Conference in New Orleans this month.

Bartenders! The Taskforce and the Ohio Department of Health will cosponsor a gay men's safer sex training program for gay bartenders on Oct. 15 from noon to 4 pm at the Lakeside Holiday Inn. To attend, register with your bar's owner or manager. The information committee is looking for volunteers to be part of an ongoing, creative, sexpositive education program for the gay community.

Gay and bisexual men who would like to explore the possibilities of safer sex in a safe, intimate environment (at home with friends) should contact the Taskforce to arrange a Safer Sex House Party.

Although the Taskforce is not a participating agency of the United Way, we are eligible for designations. You must write in "Health Issues Taskforce of Cleveland" on your United Way pledge card. HIT doesn't receive a list of such contributors, but your support is appreciated.

Center reports

John Carroll University's counseling program has approved student placement in the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center's intern program. If you are interested in receiving college credit for working at the center (whatever your school), there are many fields of study available, including history, social work, AIDS, administration, and so on.

United Way's Management Assistance Program has secured the involvement of Jeff Comfort, the Director of the City Health Department, to help the center in administering its many services. Comfort already has been instrumental in securing a Leading Edge computer system, and volunteer programmers now are desperately needed.

Gabriel's is generously contributing part of its Oct. 1st cover to the renovation fund of The Living Room, the center's drop-in recreational & holistic center for people with HIV infections. Friends of People with AIDS and The NAMES Project also have made gracious contributions.

MEN IN TOUCH, the center's new support group for men struggling with safe versus unsafe sexual activities, will be starting soon. Volunteers are needed to assist facilitating groups as well as assist behind-the-scenes. interested volunteering participating, please call 522-1999.

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Hotline training begins the first week of October. New volunteers (especially women) are greatly needed and latecomers (second week) can be accommodated. For more information, call 522-1999.

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The annual membership campaign kicked off with the Lynn Lavner concert Sept. 24th. This year's goal is to double the membership to 300. Members receive the new center newsletter, notices of events and functions and the satisfaction of helping build a thriving, prideworthy home for Cleveland's lesbian/gay family.

Everyone is welcome to the new center's Open House at 1418 W.29th St., Tuesday, Oct. 11th. at 9:00 p.m. Come and celebrate community. ▼

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