Links Page – Connecting you to our friends and allies!

The Bronx Community Pride Center is proud to be associated with a wide and diverse group of organizations who also serve the LGBTQ community of the Bronx and Northern Manhattan. Below are links to many of our friends and collaborators and we encourage you to check out their sites.

First, we work with the NYC LGBT Center, located at 208 West 13th Street – http://www.gaycenter.org/

We collaborate daily with 9 social service agencies:

BCPC is proud to be partnering with the NYC Anti-Violence Project and be one of the two sites for their Transgender Outreach Program in the Bronx – check out their site at http://www.avp.org/

BCPC is working closely with SAGE – Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders and is helping them with their outreach in the Bronx. http://www.sageusa.org/index.cfm

BCPC co-sponsors events and coordinates training with our sister organization, Hispanic AIDS Forum – http://www.hafnyc.org/

The leading HIV/AIDS Services agency in the Borough, Bronx AIDS Services, has been one of our closest collaborators for over a decade – http://www.basnyc.org/

In addition, BCPC works very closely with the Adolescent AIDS Program at Montefiore (providing care and support for HIV+ and at-risk youth) – http://www.adolescentaids.org

BCPC partners very closely with the Neighborhood and Family Health Center Clinics of the Narco Freedom network – http://www.narcofreedom.com/family_healthcenter_clinics.html

http://www.chnnyc.org/ – Community Healthcare Network – who works very closely with us to provide medical services and testing and with whom we collaborate on our transgender programming.

http://www.citiwidehr.org/ – Citiwide Harm Reduction – one of the leading harm reduction programs in the city and one of BCPC’s close collaborators in needle exchange and Hepatitis C testing.

http://www.sachr.org/ – St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction – an amazing and dynamic harm reduction organization and the pioneer syringe exchange agency in NYC and the Bronx with whom we work closely on mental health and substance abuse issues. Their core mission is to save lives by reducing injection-related HIV/AIDS.

Additional close partners include:

The Montefiore Medical Group – http://www.montefiore.org/services/mmg/- CICERO Program (the HIV care program of the Montefiore Medical Group) and have particularly close ties to physicians at the Comprehensive Health Care Center and the South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families – http://www.montekids.org/programs/sbhccf/

Union Community Health – http://www.uchcbronx.org/

Callen Lorde Health Center – http://www.callen-lorde.org/

The Bronx Community Pride Center is a proud member of the Connect 2 Protect Coalition – http://connect2protect.org/coalitions/bronx/

and the Bronx Knows Campaign – http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/ah/bronx_test.shtml

Albert Einstein College of Medicine – http://www.einstein.yu.edu/dfsm/page.aspx

Business and Networking Groups with whom BCPC partners regularly:

http://www.nyclgbtcc.com/ – New York City LBGT Chamber of Commerce

http://www.nglccny.org/ - The New York Chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Chamber of Commerce.

http://www.outprofessionals.org/-Out Professionals – The leading LGBT networking organization, and a close ally of the Bronx Community Pride Center.

Other LGBT Centers and Youth/Family Programs:

www.loftgaycenter - The Loft - Our sister Center to the North.

www.centerlaneny.org – Centerlane – A collaborator in youth services to the YMCSM population in Yonkers.

PFLAG NYC – now with a Bronx meeting on the Second Monday of every month at HAF – http://www.pflagnyc.org/

Elected Officials:

http://bronxboropres.nyc.gov/- Our Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. – We are honored to have the Bronx Borough President as an ex officio member of the Bronx Community Pride Center board and are especially grateful to his designated representative Tracy McDermott!

http://council.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml – Our NYC Council – lead by NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn. We are proud to be located in the 17th Council District represented by Councilmember Maria del Carmen Arroyo!

RESOURCES AND LISTINGS:

One of the best resources for information on LGBTQ and allied events: http://www.nycupandout.com/

NYC’s Gay Weekly – Next Magazine – BCPC is proud to be the distribution site for Next in the Bronx – http://www.nextmagazine.com/

Three of the top LGBT Cultural Institutions in the Bronx!

BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance) – http://bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/

Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre – http://www.arthuravilestypicaltheatre.org/

Pregones Theatre – http://www.pregones.org/

Additional Resources:

Gay and Lesbian Dominican Empowerment

LUNY – Latinos/Latinas Unidos de Nueva York – http://www.latinosunidosnyc.org/

PRIDE – Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment - http://www.prideny.org/

Marriage Equality New York – http://www.meny.us/action

Human Rights Campaign – http://www.hrc.org/

Empire State Pride Agenda – http://www.prideagenda.org/

HIV Law Project – http://hivlawproject.org/

Hetrick Martin Institute – HMI – http://www.hmi.org/

TLDEF – Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund – http://www.transgenderlegal.org/

LCOA – Latino Commission on AIDS – http://www.latinoaids.org/

Sylvia Rivera Law Project – http://srlp.org/

Urban Justice Center – http://www.urbanjustice.org/

Ali Forney Center – http://www.aliforneycenter.org/

Green Chimneys – http://www.greenchimneys.org/

Harlem United – http://www.harlemunited.org/

GHMC (Gay Mens Health Crisis) – http://www.gmhc.org/

New York Harm Reduction Educators – http://www.nyhre.org/

Harm Reduction Coalition – http://www.harmreduction.org/

Queers for Economic Justice – http://q4ej.org/

Lambda Legal Defense Education Fund – http://www.lambdalegal.org/

Immigration Equality – http://www.immigrationequality.org/

International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Campaign – http://www.iglhrc.org

GLSEN – Gay Straight Lesbian Education Network – http://www.glsen.org

Retail Wholesale Department Store Union – http://rwdsu.info/

1199 – http://www.1199seiu.org/

Lincoln Hospital – http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/lincoln/html/home/home.shtml

Hostos Community College – http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/

Two of our new programs at Bronx Pride are also on facebook:

Out Riverdale – https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157715497657560#!/groups/251862988188055/

Out Morris Park – https://www.facebook.com/groups/282144258486815/