Welcome to the brand-new Houston GLBT Community Center website! Check back for regular updates on Center happenings and the tremendous community volunteers who make the Center run.
We couldn’t imagine a better way to inaugurate our website than quoting the great Harvey Milk (1930-1978), the San Francisco city supervisor and gay hero, who was murdered in 1978 (as was the mayor, George Moscone) by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor:
“And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvania’s and the Richmond, Minnesota’s who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant on television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.”
— Harvey Milk
This is REALLY exciting! What a great web site! Thanks to Rob Alfieri and the folks at AIR Houston!