Today we went down to The DC Center. It's an LGBT Resource center located on U street (just exit on the 13th street side and walk down one block). We met there with David Mariner who is their Director to make safe-sex kits. As mentioned before, 1 in 20 people in DC has HIV/AIDS and so we wanted to do our part to help out the community. These kits, through a program called FuKit, provide free condoms, lube and education to the local clubs and venues for gay men and women. We had to have stuffed at least 1000 kits to send out to the clubs this week.
We had 9 people come including 4 new people which was great. It was really nice to see some new faces. Also there was a man named Bob (not sure of his last name). Bob has spent the last ten years of his life working to gain marriage rights for LGBT people and he finally did so this past year. It's because of his work that we all have the same rights in that respect.
I think we had a great time and it was a lot of fun once again to learn about new people, to bond over something fun, to learn a little more about our community and to learn about a new resource just down the road.
More information is available at www.thedccenter.org
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