Description
Correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, organizational lists, publicity releases, flyers, bylaws, event schedules, financial
records, project proposals, real estate contract, and other material documenting the founding and subsequent activities of
the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center (LGCSC) in New York City, 1983-1998. Founded in 1983, the LGCSC began as a coalition
of lesbian and gay charitable organizations who negotiated the purchase of a municipal building to serve as a centralized
site for provision of health care, counseling, as well as cultural and social services to New York's lesbian and gay community.
Background
Founded in 1983, the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center (New York) began as the AIDS crisis impelled a coalition of
gay and lesbian charitable organizations to negotiate the purchase of a municipal building (a former trade high school located
in Greenwich Village) to serve as a centralized site for provision of health care and counseling, as well as cultural and
social services to New York's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Steve Ault is among the Center's founding
members.