'When you walk in the doors of the community center, we say you’re leaving heteronormativity and you’re stepping into queerness, queer culture. You can breathe and be your full authentic self and that’s priceless.'
After this new space opened in June 2019, the coronavirus all but paused many of the in-person ideas once dreamed up. However, after two years of tiptoeing around the pandemic, center leaders told News 5 they're finally seeing the extent of how this community hub is being used.
News 5 sat in for a rainbow pioneers art therapy class, where several talked about what's changed in Northeast Ohio when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community."First I was coming here in my 20’s and now I’m almost 60," Charlie K. said."I moved here after my husband died last July and it was to meet new people and kind of just starting a new life all over," he said."Things are different and thankfully, wonderfully have changed in so many positive ways," he said.
Feerasta told News 5 that the center's growth, as well as other growth in the area still doesn't convey the full scope of the community and what it needs.
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