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CENTER SUPPORT
SOCIAL GROUPS

Center Support Social Groups empower community members to lead healthy and successful lives, celebrate our diversity, and advocate for justice, equity, and opportunity. These groups provide a safe and affirming opportunity to meet and make connections, find support systems, and take advantage of our many resources.

Please complete an intake to participate in any of our Center Support Social Groups. 

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For assistance or questions, email us at socialgroups@gaycenter.org or centersupport@gaycenter.org, call 212.620.7310, or chat with us.

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Social Groups

CONEXIÓN POSITIVA
SEGUNDO Y CUARTO MARTES DE CADA MES, 6-7:30 P.M. ET (EN PERSONA)

Este grupo de apoyo entre pares en español, contribuye a mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas LGBTQIA+ que viven con VIH, mediante intervenciones de prevención y promoción de la salud a través de las experiencias personales y aprendizaje.

Facilitadores: Wendell Oviedo (Cualquier pronombre) & Yonatan Matheus (Cualquier pronombre) 

ESL CONVERSATIONAL PROGRAM
MONDAY, 5-6:30 P.M. ET (IN-PERSON)
WEDNESDAY, 6:30-8 P.M. ET (IN-PERSON)

This interactive program focused on spontaneous conversational, writing, reading, and listening activities is designed to deliver ESL classes to the immigrant LGBTQIA+ communities and offer a space to learn English where community members can connect and be themselves eliminating linguistic barriers in achieving their personal goals and gaining the linguistic and cultural knowledge necessary to advance and manage everyday situations.

Facilitator: Victor Navas (He/Him)

EXPRESIÓN LATINX LGBTQIA+
JUEVES, 6-7:30 P.M. ET (HÍBRIDO)

Este grupo de discusión híbrido está dirigido para todes las personas LGBTQIA+ latines en el cual se podrán compartir diferentes puntos de vista sobre los diversos temas que se viven en nuestra comunidad. En este espacio de socialización en Español se favorecen los vínculos sociales basados en el respeto mutuo y la construcción colectiva. Se trabajará desde el debate, la recreación, la formación y otras técnicas que promuevan la enseñanza, la reflexión y la motivación.

Facilitadores: Wendell Oviedo (Cualquier pronombre) & Yonatan Matheus (Cualquier pronombre) 

HARMONIES
THURSDAY, 7:30-9 P.M ET (HYBRID)

This peer-support group allows community members, who are seeking community and social support, to openly discuss their experiences as trans, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, genderqueer, and/or gender-expansive individuals. This social space provides an opportunity to share their ideas on various topics related to the self and the environments queer people find themselves in.

Facilitator: Ace Sutherland (They/Them)

INMIGRANTES LGBTQIA+
PRIMER Y TERCER MARTES DE CADA MES, 6-7:30 P.M. ET (EN PERSONA)

Este grupo de apoyo es un espacio de reunión, información y solidaridad para personas LGBTQIA+ migrantes en Español, donde se podrán intercambiar experiencias, estrechar lazos de solidaridad y conocer recursos que les permitan responder a los retos propios del proceso migratorio. En este grupo social se promoverá la educación, información y guía para personas inmigrantes de las comunidades LGBTQIA+.

Facilitadores: Wendell Oviedo (Cualquier pronombre) & Yonatan Matheus (Cualquier pronombre) 

LGBTQIA+ IMMIGRANTS UNITED
SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY OF EACH MONTH, 6:30-8 P.M. ET (IN-PERSON)

This peer-support group is a safe space for LGBTQIA+ immigrants from different ethnicities and cultures to create self-awareness, and develop positive educational networks. This space offers opportunities for LGBTQIA+ immigrants to socialize and create a sense of unity, in which community members can share resources and personal experiences.

Facilitators: Sunny Ramsingh (Just my name please) & Felipe Alvear (He/Him)

RHYTHMS
FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH, 7:30-9 P.M. ET (IN-PERSON)

This peer-support group for trans and gender non-conforming Black, Indigenous, and People of Color will allow TGNC BIPOC community members to create a mutual support environment for explorations and engagement around identity, gender, race, and life experiences. Also, this group will generate discussions on livelihood and resilience in navigating against racism, discrimination, systematic oppression, etc., while providing a space to speak and celebrate respective cultures.

Facilitators: Ace Sutherland (They/Them)

LGBTQIA+ & DISABILITY PRIDE
MONDAY, 7-8 P.M. ET (HYBRID)

This peer-support group is focused on those who identify with both the LGBTQIA+ and disability communities. This space will build pride in disability—destigmatizing and demystifying disability. Community members will be able to create an uplifting and joyful environment, instill pride and a sense of belonging within disability, celebrate disability, learn from one another to create lasting networks, and learn about disability history and culture. 

Facilitator: Liliana Valvano (She/Her)

OASIS
WEDNESDAY, 7-8:30 P.M. ET (VIRTUAL)
SKIPS THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

This discussion group is a space for community members self-identifying on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum to come together to gain support from one another, and experience connection within the greater LGBTQIA+ community. This space seeks to raise awareness, reduce stigma, share experiences, form a sense of community, provide and receive peer support, and explore concerns around society and identity.

Facilitators: Stella Jendrzejewski (Ze/Zir) & Sunanda Jalote (She/They)

STORIES
MONDAY, 6:30-8 P.M. ET (IN-PERSON)

A peer-support group for transfeminine binary and non-binary individuals from all backgrounds in which community members can share information on subjects relevant to their gender identity, health care and gender-affirming care, legal services, and more. This space also provides a confidential and supportive environment to vent and make social connections with other transfeminine members and build a deeper understanding of the community.

Facilitadora: Librada Gonzalez Fernandez (She/Her/Ella)

THRIVING TOGETHER (STARTING IN JUNE)
SECOND AND FOURTH THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH, 7-8:30 P.M. ET (IN PERSON)

A peer-support group seeking to improve the quality of life of LGBTQIA+ people living with HIV offering an opportunity to meet and connect with others who are going through similar experiences. This group will provide a safe and supportive environment promoting awareness and guidance on how to live a healthy life, reducing HIV stigma, and increasing knowledge of HIV transmission, treatment, and care.

Facilitator: Riqi Velez (He/They)

TRANSMASC SHOW & TELL (STARTING IN JULY)
LAST THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH, 6:30-8 P.M. ET (IN-PERSON)

This once-a-month educational-based workshop will provide an opportunity for transmasculine, nonbinary, and binary trans men members to learn about products and navigate services that can be complex to access and understand such as surgeries, HRT processes, dating, and social connections. This space will be a direct place where the transmasculine community can ask questions and receive information and find support within their community.

Facilitator: Sam Mateo (He/Him)

TRANSVISIBILIDAD
SEGUNDO Y CUARTO JUEVES DE CADA MES, 6:30-8 P.M. ET (EN-PERSONA)

Este grupo de apoyo entre pares es un espacio en español para personas transfemeninas Indigenas, Negras o de color con identidades binarias y no binarias que buscan conexión y apoyo creando empoderamiento y visibilidad. Este grupo no solo ayudará a los participantes a ser parte de las diferentes formas de acceder a los servicios de afirmación de género, sino que también contribuirá a las transformaciones socioculturales que experimenta la comunidad Trans en su diario vivir.

Facilitadora: Elizabeth Chavez (She/Her)

VOICES
MONDAY, 6:30-8 P.M. ET (HYBRID)

This group is a peer-facilitated space for transmasculine community members. This group will provide a space for transmasculine people from different backgrounds to listen to and support each other through their lives; form community and social circles; share their experiences, challenges, and questions; and vent.

Facilitator: Sam Mateo (He/Him)

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Facilitators

  • Felipe Alvear (He/Him)Felipe is a Colombian advocate who has collaborated and volunteered with different non-profit organizations focused on LGBTQIA+ immigrants, youth, and HIV/AIDS services. Felipe has an engineering background and in the last seven years he has found a great passion for social justice, equity, and social work. Felipe is currently working at The LGBT Community Center providing leadership and management for a variety of groups for the LGBTQIA+ communities.
    Felipe Alvear (He/Him)
  • Elizabeth Chavez (She/Her)Elizabeth es una mujer Trans Mexicana quien emigró a los Estados Unidos buscando una mejor calidad de vida. Desde el año 2017 ha colaborado de lleno en distintas organizaciones LGBTQIA+, siempre apoyada y respaldada por Lorena Borjas, quien fue activista por los derechos de la comunidad transgenero e inmigrante. Elizabeth es Co-Fundadora del proyecto HOPE FOR TGNC NY, proyecto que inició en el 2018 y que apoya particularmente a mujeres transgénero que son liberadas de centros de detención migratorios. Su forma de lucha y pasión es organizar eventos de visualización para comunidad liderando espacios seguros para mujeres transgénero latinas inmigrantes de color, inidigena y negras, y sobrevivientes de VIH.
    Elizabeth Chavez (She/Her)
  • Librada González Fernández (She/Her)Librada is a trans researcher and archivist born in Cuba. In 2019 she created Archivo Cubanecuir, a collection dedicated to recovering and preserving historical documents about the Cuban LGBTI+ experiences. As an independent archivist, Librada strives to prioritize the most marginalized queer narratives that remain ignored by institutional archives. She is currently working on a book which will document the history of trans and gender non-conforming Cubans in burlesque and drag.
    Librada González Fernández (She/Her)
  • Victor Navas (He/Him)Victor was born in Venezuela, and has been a languages teacher for 12 years instructing English and Spanish as a second language. He has taught languages in North Carolina for 5 years, and currently works designing strategies to create cultural diversity activities to teach languages in a meaningful way. Victor is eager to welcome students into a classroom that fosters a caring environment for learning, where they can feel safe and also challenged to grow in knowledge of the language and the culture behind it.
    Victor Navas (He/Him)
  • Yonatan Matheus (Cualquier pronombre)Yonatan es un exiliado gay venezolano, defensor de derechos humanos y trabajador social que huyó de Venezuela en 2016 luego de sufrir persecución, y violencia por parte del crimen organizado y miembros de la dictadura venezolana. Es voluntario desde 2016 en Venezuelans & Immigrants Aid, organización comunitaria que trabaja por la población venezolana migrante forzada en New York City. Fundador y Directivo de América Diversa Inc, organización comprometida con la promoción de los Derechos Humanos, la educación y el empoderamiento de las personas LGBTQ+ latinas refugiadas, solicitantes de asilo e inmigrantes en la ciudad de Nueva York.
    Yonatan Matheus (Cualquier pronombre)
  • Wendell Oviedo (Cualquier pronombre)Soy Wendell, activista LGBTQIA+, miembro de la Directiva de Venezuela Diversa desde el 2014, trabajando temas relacionados con la educación para la no discriminación por orientación sexual e identidad de género, campañas de prevención en el área de la salud sexual, y organización de actividades públicas para visibilizar los derechos LGBTQIA+. Integrante de Venezuelans and Immigrants Aid desde 2016 y parte del equipo fundacional y directivo de América Diversa Inc, que desde 2020 trabaja para promover derechos LGBTQIA+ de personas Latinas refugiadas, solicitantes de asilo y migrantes en New York City.
    Wendell Oviedo (Cualquier pronombre)
  • Harinauth “Sunny” Ramsingh Harinauth, also known as Sunny, is a Guyanese activist who has been working on providing a safe and friendly space for LGBTQIA+ Immigrants. In the last few years, Sunny has worked as a health educator increasing awareness within the LGBTQIA+ immigrant community to develop positive networks of support.
    Harinauth “Sunny” Ramsingh
  • Ace Sutherland (They/Them)Ace is a Black queer activist and content creator who focuses on a variety of social justice issues with an emphasis on the equality of Black & TGNC communities. Ace is a full-time Senior Policy Analyst at a NYC think tank that advocates for immigration rights across the nation. Also, Ace likes and enjoys playing video games with their friends in their free time.
    Ace Sutherland (They/Them)
  • Liliana Valvano (She/Her)Liliana is a queer & autistic social worker (in-training!), community organizer, community care facilitator, and author who focuses on the intersections of liberatory disability justice, autistic culture, queerness, and coalation building amongst oppressed peoples. Her work includes using zines, published or unpublished writing, community-building, and one-on-one care to deconstruct ableism and all other (often intersecting) oppressive forces while also empowering a proud, joyful, and self-sustaining disabled community.
    Liliana Valvano (She/Her)
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