CenterLink is heartbroken by last night’s deadly shooting at an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs. We mourn for those whose lives were taken, and our hearts are with their families and friends, those who survived the attack, and the Colorado community. 

Please see the statement from One Colorado here and follow One Colorado for more information.

It was a long night, and we still don't know all of the election results, but here's what we do know:  the LGBTQ+ community showed up at the polls and on the ballots! 

According to a recent report by the Human Rights Campaign, in the 2022 Midterm election, LGBTQ+ identified people accounted for one-in ten (11.3%) people in the voting eligible population in the United States. By 2030 approximately one-in-seven voters will identify as LGBTQ+. 

For the first time in the nation's history, Americans from all 50…

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers extends congratulations to Adrian Shanker, executive director of the Spahr Center in Marin County, California, who has been appointed as Senior Adviser on LGBTQI+ Health Equity in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, currently led by Dr. Rachel Levine. 

Adrian previously served the current administration as a volunteer member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He became the executive…

August 2nd, 2022

Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

1600 Clifton Road 

Atlanta, GA 30329-4027 

Dear Dr. Walensky, 

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers and the member centers signed below are writing to request assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the rise of the hMPXV virus is of immediate concern to the LGBTQ+ community. 

We request that the CDC supports our community and our varied efforts to combat this virus by: 

• …

June 24th, 2022 

Media Contact: Denise Spivak, CEO 

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers 

Phone: 954-765-6024 

Email: denise@lgbtcenters.org

CenterLink’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Decision: 

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization 

Ft. Lauderdale, FL - We should all be able to make the personal health care decisions that impact our lives, health, and futures. But today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a shattering blow to the right to access abortion in the U.S., leaving even more people…

June 15th, 2022

Media Contact: Denise Spivak, CEO 

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers 

Phone: 954-765-6024 

Email: denise@lgbtcenters.org 

CenterLink Applauds Pride Month Executive Order

Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Today President Biden signed a historic Executive Order advancing LGBTQ+ rights during Pride Month. This Order directs federal agencies to take new steps to protect and support LGBTQ+ individuals and their families, including: 

• Addressing harmful state legislative attacks against children…

According to our partners at the Equality Federation, there are 240 anti-LGBTQ+ bills active in 37 states across the country so far in 2022, with about half of them targeting transgender people specifically.

The barrage of legislation includes bills that would restrict LGBTQ+ issues in school curriculums, permit religious exemptions to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, and limit trans people’s ability to play sports, use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, and receive gender-affirming…

February 25, 2022

Media Contact: Denise Spivak, CEO

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers

Phone: 954-765-6024

Email: denise@lgbtcenters.org

For Immediate Release

CenterLink Applauds President Biden’s Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - President Joe Biden today announced his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

A top jurist with strong experience on the…

STATEMENT BY LGBTQI+ ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF

IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF A ROBUST BUILD BACK BETTER LAW

Released by: Family Equality, Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research, CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers, Equality California, the Equality Federation, FORGE, Inc., GLSEN, the Hispanic Federation, the Modern Military Association of America, the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund, Oasis Legal Services, and Silver State Equality

Today the White House released its Build Back Better framework…

Media Contact:  Denise Spivak, CEO 

CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers 

Phone: 954-765-6024 

Email: Denise@lgbtcenters.org 

CenterLink Submits Amicus Letter in Support of California LGBTQ Elders Case

Ft. Lauderdale - Today CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers along with the undersigned [California LGBTQ] organizations submitted this letter in support of the petition for review of the decision in Taking Offense v. State of California.

Review of this decision is necessary to ensure the health…