Bank of America made a generous $5,000 contribution towards the life affirming programs and services offered by the LGBTQ Center OC. LGBTQ representative, Ruben Alvarez and Sr . Vice President, Ted Tragos presented LGBTQ Center OC Executive Director, Kevin O'Grady, Ed.D. with the check.
A loyal supporter and friend Dr. Max Schneider (Uncle Max) died peacefully at his home in Orange, CA on September 28th at age 92 with his family by his side. Dr. Schneider, an internist who retired at age 90, leaves an impressive legacy in the world of addiction medicine. Growing up in Buffalo, New York, Max Schneider used to joke that he started practicing medicine at age 10 as he assisted a fireman who needed a Band-Aid after fighting a house fire next door. From that moment on, he was a fixture at the firehouse, and in later years, after he became a doctor, he volunteered as the fire department's surgeon. Graduating in 1949 from the University Of Buffalo School Of Medicine, where he did his internship and residency until 1952, Schneider went on to Harvard Medical School for a fellowship, completing his training in 1953. Also in [...]
Welcome! I’d like to welcome you to our new website! We are excited to see it launched and to offer you many more services through the site. I’ll get to those services later. We want this website to be your website; the place where you come for news and information about LGBTQ Center OC, and to connect with all the other LGBTQQ groups in Orange County. The site was designed to be your community hub, so we invite you here to link to all the LGBTQ activities available to you in the county. Do you want to know about Men Alive’s next concert, or find out about the next performance at Theater Out? Just go to our Community Hub page. If the Arts aren’t for you, visit Surf and Sand Softball, or LGBTQQ bowling; if you’re a runner see what the OC Frontrunners are up to. If community service is [...]
During the past several years, the LGBT community has witnessed an incredible expansion of our civil rights and civil liberties.