The Lambda Center of Fort Collins, Colo. is holding a new weekly youth group meeting for people ages 18-29. The meeting will be held from 5-7 pm and is located at the Lambda Center, 212 S. Mason St.
The Lambda Center routinely holds youth group and support meetings for the GLBTQA community in Northern Colorado and also has youth drop-in hours Monday through Friday from 3:00-7:00 pm.
The Sixth Annual Pride in the Park week is being held June 4-7 and will be featuring various vendors, community organizations and fun. This event would be a great place to network and gather with the community. It will be held in Fort Collins’ Civic Center Park.
Andy Stoll, executive director of the center since January, said that the event has been getting bigger and bigger every year. He said it started out as a modest community picnic in Rolland Moore Park; after that, the Lambda Center moved it to Library Park to make it more of a Pride-centered event and then about three years ago, moved the celebration to Civic Center Park where it will be this year.
With the Lambda Center, Stoll recognizes many of the obstacles that the GLBT community faces in Fort Collins. Pride in the Park, along with the youth groups and other programs, is about removing those obstacles.
“It’s all about changing that story for folks,” he said. “It’s about making their stories different than mine were.”
Despite the controversial polarity of equal rights for the GLBT community, the Fort Collins community has generally been calm, Stoll said.
“We prepare every year for protestors, and set up an area for them” just in case, Said Stoll, but: “Never have had protestors.”
He said that the community has had proclamations from Fort Collins’ City Council for the past three years that recognize June 6 as Pride in the Park Day, which help in recognizing the diversity that the GLBT community brings to Fort Collins.
“There are families and people that are genuinely contributing to this community that are part of the GLBT community,” Stoll said.
For more information, you can reach the Lambda Center at 970-221-3247.
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