Karen Foley is a Lancaster based therapist who has worked with members of the local gay community since moving to the area nine years ago. Through advocacy work for her clients and her leadership in the community around events like Pride Week and weekly Trans/Queer Yoga gatherings, the idea was born for the Lancaster LGBTQ+ Coalition, a group that is focused on LGBTQ+ issues in Lancaster County.
The Coalition has now opened Lancaster County’s very first LGBTQ+ center, here at the Candy Factory in our new Studio building at the Candy Factory Community Campus.This physical location will serve as a hub for the LGBTQ+ community, where people can gather, connect with each other, and find information about available resources all in one central location. The Coalition is also committed to addressing deeper issues like improving access to dignified healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community, offering cultural competency training to organizations and businesses in the area, and working toward statewide non-discrimination legislation. Learn more here:
Web: https://lgbtlancaster.org/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/lancasterlgbtqcoalition/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lgbtqcoalition/
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Thanks for this interesting interview and window into the LGBTQ coalition. It’s a funny thing, but proximity helps to break down barriers. Here is a diverse group of people coming together to have safe places, healthcare, recognition, judgement free dignity, opportunity, comradery, fun, support and all the other pieces of the puzzle that we all want. Proximity at The Candy Factory creates nice opportunities. When it’s lunchtime the lawyer next to you might be the tech wizard creating for a church next to you, might be the sound technician next to you might be the mathematician circus acrobat next to you might be the dog owner next to you might be the good desert recipe next to you might be the triathlete LGBTQ accountant next o you might be the father of two incubating a startup and please pass the salt person next to you. Preconceived notions and definitions blur and start to dissolve and people start to emerge. It’s nice having this new coalition in proximity. I bet they have some good recipes…
Thanks for checking it out, Tony! Yeah, having a diverse membership is one of the awesome things about our space.
Id like to chat sometime about additional groups organizations and people working on Queer concerns in and about Lancaster
Reach out any time, Barry (jmundok@gmail.com). Love to catch up with you.