Love Defines A Family Every day, members of the LGBTQ community challenge traditional definitions of what it means to be a family. With recent strides in marriage equality, the definition of ‘family’ continues to evolve, weaving new, diverse threads into our nation’s social fabric. Coastal Virginia is home to many LGBTQ families and for the…
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Reduce HIV Stress: The Healthy Living Project
What is the Healthy Living Project? After an HIV-positive diagnosis, looking forward can be a nearly impossible task. The Healthy Living Project at LGBT Life Center can help with understanding what a diagnosis means today. Even if you have been living with HIV for many years, stress still happens and learning to handle stress can…
New Staff Intros: Lorraine Reichert
As our agency has grown over the past months, so has our staff of wonderful, unique and hard-working individuals. We’re proud of our family and want to share some of their stories with you. #LGBTLifeTeam Welcomes Lorraine Reichert! Job Title: Senior Community Health Navigator Nickname: Raine Past experience: After being medically retired from the Navy, I found myself…
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2017 (TDOR)
LGBT Life Center honors the 26 trans individuals lost in 2017 Sunday was an emotional evening for the community as we all came together at New Life MCC Church in Norfolk to remember the transgender individuals killed in 2017. With trans violence at an alarming record high, the TDOR ceremony stands to not only pay…
National Coming Out Day 2017
October 11th was National Coming Out Day, and to commemorate, staff members at LGBT Life Center shared their own coming out experiences through a social media campaign called #LifeTeamComingOut. Throughout the day, many different inspiring and emotional stories were shared from both people who identify as LGBTQ+ or as an Ally. While some of us…
LGBT Life Center Library Intern Needed
We Need You! Calling all bookworms, library dwellers, and gurus of organization–LGBT Life Center Library needs your help! Our extensive library of books is a wonderful space for both leisure and education but needs to be properly categorized. That’s where you come in. If you have experience in library sciences or just have an interest…
Transgender Conference in Richmond
TIES conference brings transgender community and allies together for workshops The 2017 Transgender Information and Empowerment Summit (TIES) is just around the corner on October 21, 2017. We’ve put together some useful information about what the conference means and what you can do there! Q & A Q: Who puts the event on, and who…
Register to Vote, it Matters
Join Us in Celebrating National Voter Registration Day! LGBT Life Center is excited to once again participate in a national effort to engage and mobilize Americans in our political process by helping to register over a hundred thousand voters across the country on September 26, 2017, National Voter Registration Day. First held in 2012 for that…
Trump Reinstates Transgender Military Ban
Norfolk, VA – When Trump stood in front of the Republican Party – and America – to accept his party’s nomination, he held up a rainbow flag and said that he would protect LGBTQ Americans. Day after day and week after week, the Trump administration has worked to eliminate LGBTQ Americans from the conversation. Any…