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Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
Formerly the Pennsylvania Diversity Network, the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center serves the lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender community of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Berks County.
LGBT Center of Greater Reading
The LGBT Center of Greater Reading provides services fancy educational programs and support groups for members of the lesbian, gay, pansexual, and transgender collective of the Greater Reading area.
Planned Parenthood LGBTQ+ Youth Programs
Planned Parenthood provides 3 diverse groups located around central/eastern PA for LGBTQ+ youths. The Spectrum is held in Reading, The Rainbow Room is held in Doylestown, and The Curve is in York. These programs are for LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 14 and 21.
Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley
The Pride in the Park festival has been held every year for the past 25 years in Allentown to celebrate the Lehigh Valley's Pride.
Reading Pride
Reading's yearly Pride Celebration has been celebrating LGBTQ pride for 13 years.
Giovanni's Room
Giovanni's Room stands as the oldest
Artist Inhwan Oh has memorialized Philly’s rich history of queer bars in an installation that highlights their importance as well as their fleeting ephemerality.
Titled “Where He Meets Him in Philadelphia,” the site-specific work is part of the featured exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989.“
It features the names of 36 queer bars and clubs that have existed in the city (find a partial list below). The names are layered atop one another on the floor in powder incense. They were also burned according to centuries-old rituals and meditative practices, though due to flame hazard restrictions, that action is displayed on a small monitor beside the piece.
“I focus on the relationship between my operate and the audience,” Oh, who is based in Seoul, told Billy Penn. “I hope that through my work they can sense and think of the history, memories, emotions, and sensations of the gay community.”
For Bob Skiba, curator at the Williams Way LGBT Community Center and author of the Gayborhood Guru blog, the burning process spotlights the short-lived existence of many of Philly’s queer cultural spaces.
“Although we think of them as signposts in
Reading Gay Bars
Reading is a large town in the county of Berkshire. It has one gay-popular venue. Reading has a major university, it's well acknowledged for Reading Festival and it has numerous historic attractions.
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Last updated on: 3 Nov 2023
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LGBTQ+ Spiritual and Social Support
What is Community?
Community is a hard thing to define but an important thing to be a part of. Community can be brought together by many things, including geographical proximity, shared values, and identities, as adv as a mutual appreciation and affinity for like things and ideas. Social and spiritual connection is often a way into collective. Whether it is through church, sports clubs, after-school activities, or social gatherings, connecting to people and community is vital to living a healthy and well life.
For Homosexual people, finding collective has been a life-saving practice. Group can be a response to discrimination, stigma, trauma, and social isolation, which all disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ people.
Where to Go for Community
The form of a community is less significant than the individuals who comprise it and ideals that motivate it. Be it online or on-the-ground, sustainable communities have been forged through the collective labor and love of those who consider themselves to be a part of them, even in the face of transforming and challenging political, economic, and cultural forces. These contexts can provide opportu