Champaign+Country+Uniting+Pride+Organization

The Uniting Pride center of Champaign County is a community center that provides a wide variety of services to the lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, questioning, and ally community in the surrounding areas. It reaches out to all ages, families, and individuals. It is a non-profit organization that has reduced taxes as something that benefits the community. The center strives to “promote the well being” of the LGBTQ community primarily through advocacy, education and outreach. The UP center offers many programs and events for the surrounding community. For the past 4 years, the they have organized Champaign-Urbana’s pride festival. Most of their programs are formatted in a weekly/monthly meeting style and center around discussion and sharing. There website includes a detailed description of all of their programs, but some main one’s include:

Bi Mix Up - an adult social group for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, polysexual, omniexual, plurisexual, and questioning. They discuss topics like dating, relationships, friendships, coming out, and bi-phobia. Gal UP - a support group for women to talk about their daily lives (family, dating, work). It is BTA women who are 21 and up. Trans UP - a social/support group for the transgender community. It is both for socializing and discussion. Usually topics center around transitioning, daily life, dating and coming out among others. Read UP - A book group for the LGBTQA community.

So far I have had issues finding anything about the UP center historically, however I think I might be able to find some stuff in the Urbana archives. There website is [|http://unitingpride.org]