Brooklyn Community Pride Center

Brooklyn Community Pride Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit LGBTQ+ community center in Brooklyn, New York. Incorporated in 2008, it was the first LGBTQ+ center in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[1]

Brooklyn Community Pride Center
Formation2008 (2008)
TypeCommunity center
Legal statusNon-profit organization
PurposeLGBTQ services
Location
President of the Board
Deborah Brennan
CEO
Floyd Rumohr
Websitehttps://lgbtbrooklyn.org

History

The Brooklyn Community Pride Center was the first LGBTQ+ center in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. As of 2020, it remains the only LGBTQ+ center there.[1][2]

Erin Drinkwater served as Executive Director of the center from 2012 through 2014.[3] During this time, the center moved from its 600-square-foot walk-up quarters to a 1,600 square-foot facility.[3] In 2014, Deborah Brennan joined the center's Board of Directors and in 2015 became President of the Board.[4] She then recruited Floyd Rumohr as the center's new Chief Executive Officer.[4][5]

In 2020, the center signed a 30-year lease for a new headquarters, to be located inside a section of the Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights.[1] The new space is to contain Brooklyn's "first dedicated mental health LGBTQ clinic", while the old space will be retained and dedicated to youth programming and services.[1]

Projects

Services

Services and programs provided by the center include:

  • Health and wellness services for youth, the elderly, and transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals,[7] as well as Brooklyn's first clinic devoted to LGBTQ mental health[1][8]
  • A laundry facility for use by LGBTQ homeless persons[8]
  • Arts programs
  • Social programs

References

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