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Do You Know a Great LGBTQ+ Ally? Nominate Them for an Award

Please help Avenidas Rainbow Collective (ARC) recognize a local business, organization, or agency that you believe has demonstrated their support for the LGBTQ+ Community.

Equality and equity for the LGBTQ+ community are not possible without support from the greater community. Business, organizations, and agencies should be recognized for what they have done and appreciated for their efforts in expanding inclusive and affirming spaces for members of the LGBTQ+ community in society.

How It Works

Fill out our nomination form on SurveyMonkey, which asks the following questions about your nominee:

  • Which local business, organization, or agency do you think have proven to be a strong Ally for the LGBTQ+ Community?
  • What is the contact info for your nomination? (ie, contact person, phone, email)
  • What is it that your nomination has done to make you believe that they are a strong ally to the LGBTQ+ Community?

Thank you for your nomination. We hope to see you at our Ally Appreciation Day event on Tuesday, January 12th, at 2 pm.

Nominate an Ally

Note: this form is only for nominating ally organizations. It will not register you for the event. To attend the Ally Appreciation Day event, visit our event page.

LGBTQ Ally Appreciation Day

Avenidas Rainbow Collective (ARC) realizes that members of the LGBTQ community, and the community, truly benefit from the support of individual and professional allies in our local environments.

Without this support, members of the LGBTQ+ community would not be able to marry, have a family, enjoy job security, or feel accepted and valued both within their homes and outside in the community. Allies are an essential part of achieving total equality and inclusion in our society.

For those reasons ARC invites you to recognize and show appreciation for the support that these allies have shown for the LGBTQ+ community on January 12th.

Nominate an Ally

Take this opportunity to recognize your personal ally and allow us to send them an award of appreciation from Avenidas Rainbow Collective and you. Fill out the LGBTQ Community Ally Award Nomination form on SurveyMonkey.

How to Attend

Registration is required. Click the button below to register online via SurveyMonkey. Registered participants will receive Zoom meeting information via email.

Contact Thomas Kingery (tkingery@avenidas.org) with any questions about the event.

Register Online

Addiction Resources for the Transgender Community from Sunshine Behavioral Health

Sunshine Behavioral Health operates four rehab centers: two in Orange County, one in Colorado, and one in Texas. They reached out to Avenidas to ask us to include their online resources on our website. They have published a number of guides and infographics about how addiction affects different communities.

They asked us to highlight How Addiction Affects the Transgender Community, but there are several other guides that may be relevant to Avenidas members:

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Super, Fabulous Holiday Party!

Spend a cozy afternoon with your fellow LGBTQ community members enjoying holiday music, playing games, and winning prizes. Wear your Ugly Christmas Sweater.

We’ll also take time to reminisce about the holidays and share our plans for the new year. BYO hot cocoa (or hot toddy) and we’ll see you on Zoom!

How to Participate

Please register online to receive your Zoom invite. Email tkingery@avenidas.org for more info.

Get Your Invitation

World AIDS Day Vision 2020

World AIDS Day is a day to remember, to honor, and to be educated. Avenidas Rainbow Collective observed World AIDS Day on December 1st, 2020 with an online event. 2020 Vision: Ending HIV/AIDS features four informational sessions and a remembrance ceremony.

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Click the image above to download the flyer.

Sessions

  • HIV/AIDS: The Social Impacts by Thomas Kingery
  • The effects HIV has on the brain and a person’s mental health by Dr. Lawrence McGlynn, MD, (psychiatrist)
  • The physical effects of HIV and what it means to be undetectable by Dr Andre Zolopa (infectious disease doctor)
  • Resources for people living with HIV by Molly Herzig (Case Manger w/Health Trust)

Thanks to Our Sponsors

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Presented by the Avenidas Rainbow Collective with support from the County of Santa Clara, Office of LGBTQ Affairs.

 

Reimagining Our Future: World AIDS Day 2020

Events are FREE. All diverse communities are welcome to attend, including youth, families, seniors, and the disabled.

12 Noon

Flag Raising

Live Streamed on Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center Facebook Page.

1:30 PM

Proclamation by San Jose City Council

Councilmember Pam Foley and Councilmember Raul Peralez

https://sanjoseca.zoom.us/j/91325378626

7 PM

Virtual World AIDS Day Candle Light Vigil Followed by Film Screening of 5B Movie

Hosted by Nicole Altamirano of Silicon Valley Pride

ZOOM MEETING ID: 885 6790 9182

Live Stream on YouTube at BIT.LY /SVPRIDE-YOUTUBE

All Day

The San Jose City Rotunda will be lit RED for Worlds AIDS Day

Sponsored by Councilmember Pam Foley and Councilmember Raul Peralez

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Find out more at https://worldaidsdaysv.org/