Support LGBTQ+ individuals, identities and culture.
Pride.
We feature on this page two Oakland-based community centers that promote education, social, arts, and health related activities, programs and services for the LGBTQIA community. Visit their websites or attend their events as a participant, volunteer or supporter.
San Francisco Pride’s 2022 theme is Love Will Keep Us Together. This in-person two-day event on June 25-26, 2022 will be hosted at SF Civic Center with the traditional parade down Market Street. Visit their website for details.
The Oakland LGBTQ+ Community Center.
Physical Location: 3207 Lakeshore Ave., Oakland, CA 94610
Telephone: 510-882-2286
The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center was founded and incorporated in June of 2017, by two African American gay men, Jeff Myers and Joe Hawkins. This center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related activities, programs and services.
Photo source: Oakland LGBTQ+ Community Center
Queer Arts Center.
Physical Location: 3411 Lakeshore Ave, Oakland, CA 94610
Telephone: 510-239-7197
The EAST BAY LGBTQ+ HEALING ARTS CENTER aka The QUEER ARTS CENTER is a grassroots, interdisciplinary collaborative of Oakland, California-based disabled, Black, Indigenous + Brown LGBTQ+ identified artists and wellness practitioners serving a global community. They are diverse across gender, sexual orientation, and relationship spectrums as well as ancestral heritage and spiritual orientations.
Their mission is to offer creative opportunities for health equity through culturally competent, financially accessible, interdisciplinary art innovation and through marginalized LGBTQIA rights advocacy; and, to promote the well-being of the QTPOC artist.