As the coordinator of The One Project, I am always nervous to see who is going to show up to our events. This is the first year of The One Project and it's hard to gauge right now what is working and what is not working. What is definitely working though is that students are showing up! Every time we hold an event, we have a few people who are regulars and then there are always a few new people who attend as well. This is great news!!
Last night we held our first educational event, Drugs, Sex and Rock n' Roll, a discussion on the role that drugs, sex and partying have in the LGBTQA community. I think it was a great discussion that brought up issues of the most common drugs found in specific populations (gay v. lesbian) and differences in straight v. gay social life. The role that HIV plays in our community and how people are experiencing that epidemic.
Did you know that 1 in 20 people in DC has HIV/AIDs? That's a high number!!
Keving Nunley from the Speaker's Bureau at The DC Center, a LGBT resource center, in Washington, DC came out to facilitate our discussion and provided us with a lot of great information to talk about and discuss outside of this venue.
I hope that the students who attended got some great information, met some new people and will begin to talk with their friends about safe choices the next time they decide to go out and party.
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