Black Pride Champions of Equality Reception
Date: 5/25/2011 Time: 6:30-8:30 PM
Axum Ethiopian Restaurant
1934 9th Street NW
Washington, DC
Join the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club for our 2011 Black Pride Reception Honoring the Wanda Alston House and Transgender Health Empowerment. The Stein Club will present the Wanda Alston House with a check from the Black History Month theatre fundraiser at the event.
Suggested Donation: $20. Light fare will be provided.
To join the host committee: Email president@steindemocrats.org.
The Wanda Alston House honors the life and work of Wanda Alston, an LGBT activist, mayoral appointee, and dedicated resident of Washington, D.C. whose untimely death in her home in 2005, shortened her mission to empower and strengthen the GLBT community. The Wanda Alston House seeks to carry on her work and empower young people while providing them a safe place to live free from harm and danger.
The Wanda Alston House is the first and only housing program in Washington D.C. that is solely dedicated to offering pre independent living services to homeless GLBTQ youth ages 16-24. Each young person is assigned a life skills counselor who works each day on issues related to employment/vocational training, housing, and other issues as needed. Each young person is housed in their own room and reside in a house with a advocate with extensive experience with housing and GLBTQ youth issues.
The mission of T.H.E. Inc. is to enhance the quality of life of the diverse transgender populations we serve by advocating for and supporting a continuum of health and social services. In fulfilling our mission, we seek to unify and empower the transgender, lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities.
Washington DC Gay and Lesbian Black Pride is one of the nation's largest African-American Pride events, DC Black Pride takes place in Washington, DC in late May - the dates for this year are place May 26 to May 29, 2011. This is also Memorial Day Weekend, and a beautiful time to be in the nation's capital.