Day 5: The Archive and Meeting in the Center

After finishing our work at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center at 5pm, we went to the LGBT Community Center on 13th Street to meet Ms. Novak & Mr. Jensen and also to visit the center’s archive. We expressed our gratitude to Ms. Novak & Mr. Jensen for their kindness to support which makes the LGBT project in University of Maryland possible and sustainable. We also talked about what kind of work we did and how we felt in the past few days visiting and serving in different organizations over New York city, including the Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), the LGBT Community Center, the Brooklyn Community Pride Center (BCPC), the Trevor Project and the Audre Lorde Project (ALP). 

Then we visited the archive on the 4th floor of the LGBT Community Center. The archive serves as a library and contains majorly popular LGBT readings which provides a look into the lives and experiences of LGBT people. 

After the whole day’s hard work, we walked through beautiful and unique High Line Park and headed towards Lasagna Ristorante, our dinner restaurant. Eleven of us and Mr. Jensen had a great time in this nice, cozy Italian restaurant and enjoyed delicious food. Compared to these days’ homemade sandwiches, frozen pizzas and instant Mac & Cheese under the “living simply” philosophy to cut down our spending, today’s food is a rare delicacy! We had a blast today and looked forward to tomorrow, the last day of our NYC 2015-LGBTQA Youth Homelessness, Healthcare and Advocacy project!

Michelle Duan