via Windy City Times, Kate Sosin
Many "Take Back Boystown" members aimed to clarify that they are not advocating for racial profiling in Lakeview, and comments on that page appeared considerably less controversial than in recent weeks, with few blaming youth of color outright for neighborhood crimes.
LGBT organizations stepped forward and offered their resources for mediating those discussions. Both Taskforce Prevention and Community Services, a West Side HIV-service organization, and Center on Halsted announced initiatives to deal both with crime and with LGBT youth issues.
Center on Halsted has taken heat in recent weeks from residents who claim that the organization attracts youth who loiter and commit crimes to the neighborhood. Modesto "Tico" Valle, CEO of the Center, had said the Center was helping the situation, not making it worse. Making good on that promise, Valle announced a new taskforce "to build a safer and more welcoming community" as well as new self-defense and conflict mediation classes for the community.
"These are challenging times for our community," said Valle in the July 15 announcement. "Now is the time to work together again so we can build a safer and more welcoming environment for all people."
Sitraka Andriamanantenasoa, the Center's new community relations director, also spent much of the week meeting with community members about their concerns and hopes for the Center.
Taskforce Prevention and Community Services announced its own taskforce for addressing similar issues.
Read more.
Your field guide to gay men's health. The blog is no longer active, but is still available to use as an information resource.

Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
select key words
2007 National HIV Prevention Conference
2009 National LGBTI Health Summit
2011 LGBTI Health Summit
2012 Gay Men's Health Summit
2012 International AIDS Conference
ACT Up
AIDS
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Africa
BUTT
Bisexual
Bisexual Health Summit
Brian Mustanski
Center on Halsted
Charles Stephens
Chicago
Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus
Chicago Task Force on LGBT Substance Use and Abuse
Chris Bartlett
Coaching with Jake
Congress
David Halperin
David Munar
Dr. James Holsinger
Dr. Jesus Ramirez-Valles
Dr. Rafael Diaz
Dr. Ron Stall
ENDA
Ed Negron
Eric Rofes
FTM
Feast of Fun
Feel the love...
Friday is for Faeries
Gay Men's Health Summit 2010
HCV
HIV
HIV care
HIV drugs
HIV negative
HIV positive
HIV prevention
HIV stigma
HIV strategic plan
HIV testing
HIV/AIDS
HPV
Howard Brown Health Center
IML
IRMA
Illinois
International AIDS Conference
Jim Pickett
LGBT
LGBT adoption
LGBT culture
LGBT health
LGBT rights
LGBT seniors
LGBT youth
LGBTI community
LGBTI culture
LGBTI health
LGBTI rights
LGBTI spirituality
LGV
Leon Liberman
LifeLube
LifeLube forum
LifeLube poll
LifeLube subscription
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
Lymphogranuloma Venereum
MRSA
MSM
Monday Morning Perk-Up
National AIDS Strategy
National Gay Men's Health Summit
One Fey's Tale
Peter Pointers
Pistol Pete
PnP
PrEP
President Barack Obama
Presidential Campaign
Project CRYSP
Radical Faerie
STD
Senator Barack Obama
Sister Glo
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Susan Kingston
Swiss declaration
Ted Kerr
Test Positive Aware Network
The "Work-In"
The 2009 Gay Men's Health Agenda
Tony Valenzuela
Trans Gynecology Access Program
Trans and Intersex Association
Trevor Hoppe
Who's That Queer
Woof Wednesday
You Tube
abstinence only
activism
advocacy
african-american
aging issues
anal cancer
anal carcinoma
anal health
anal sex
andrew's anus
athlete
ball scene
bareback porn
barebacking
bathhouses
bears
big bold and beautiful
bisexuality
black gay men
black msm
blood ban
blood donor
body image
bottom
chubby chaser
circumcision
civil rights
civil union
communication
community organizing
condoms
crystal meth
dating
dating and mating with alan irgang
depression
disclosure
discrimination
domestic violence
don't ask don't tell
douche
downlow
drag queen
emotional health
exercise
female condom
fitness
gay culture
gay identity
gay latino
gay male sex
gay marriage
gay men
gay men of color
gay men's health
gay pride
gay rights
gay rugby
gay sex
gay youth
gender
harm reduction
hate crime
health care
health care reform
health insurance
hepatitis C
hiv vaccine
homophobia
homosexuality
hottie
hotties
how are you healthy?
human rights
humor
hunk
immigration
international mr. leather
internet
intimacy
leather community
leathersex
lifelube survey
love
lube
lubricant
masturbation
mental health
microbicides
middle
music
negotiated safety
nutrition
oral sex
physical health
pleasure
podcast
policy
politics
poppers
porn
post-exposure prophylaxis
prevention
prostate
prostate cancer
public health
public sex venues
queer identity
racism
recovery
rectal microbicides
relationships
religion
research
safe sex
semen
sero-adaptation
sero-sorting
seroguessing
sex
sexual abuse
sexual addiction
sexual health
sexual orientation
smoking
social marketing
spirituality
stigma
stonewall riots
substance abuse treatment
substance use
suicide
super-bug
superinfection
syphilis
testicle self-examination
testicular cancer
testing
top
trans group blog
transgender
transgender day of remembrance
transgendered
transmen
transphobia
transsexual
universal health care
unsafe sex
vaccines
video
violence
viral load
writers
yoga
youtube

No comments:
Post a Comment