Our Sponsors On September 8th, Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Pride honored The Center Long Beach with a $5000 grant to fund our Community Help Desk. A very special thanks to all of our friends at Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Pride for their support and continued partnership with The Center Long Beach! [Photo: (Left to Right) Rhonda Fuller, Long Beach Gay and Lesbian Pride Inc. (LGLGP) Grant Committee Co-Chair, Phyllis Schmidt, Interim Executive Director, The Center, Porter Gilberg, Operations Manager, The Center, Sergio Macias, Grant Committee Co-Chair, LGLGP, Christina Tompkins, Community Help Desk Volunteer, The Center.]   Mayer Laboratories The Center Long Beach would like to thank Mayer Laboratories for their generous donations of 2,000 Kimono condoms for free distribution to our HIV testing clients, and to community members. Kimono Condoms - America's Thinnest Latex Condoms!   Long Beach FrontRunners The Frontrunner’s 19th Annual Pride Run held on May 21st also helped to raise funds for the Center, with a donation of $1,000. Thanks for your Support! [Photo: (Left To Right) Mike Kezsely - Frontrunner President presents a check to Christina Bennett - Center Long Beach Vice-Chair.]   Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) For the fourth consecutive year The Pink Party donated a portion of its profits to the Center’s Youth Program. This year the event raised a little more than $2,300 for the MYTE Program. [Photo: (Right to Left) Richard Lewis, Executive Committee Member of Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), Phyllis Schmidt, Interim Executive Director, The Center, Ron Sylvester, Chairman, The Center.]   Interval House Interval House recently renewed their long time support for The Center, Long Beach with a donation of $10,000. Together Interval House and The Center collaborate to offer assistance to LGBTQ victims of domestic violence. The Center also hosts Healthy Relationship discussion groups, lead by Interval House staff, for LGBTQ clients weekly. [Photo: Mary Walton, Clinical Director of Interval House presents The Center’s Interim Executive Director Phyllis Schmidt with a check for $10,000.]   Union Bank The Union Bank Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach (The Center) to support the agency’s youth mentoring program knows as MYTE, (Mentoring Youth Through Empowerment). [Photo: (Left To Right) Gabriel Gonzalez from Union Bank presents a check from the Union Bank Foundation to The Center’s Interim Executive Director Phyllis Schmidt, and MYTE Program Director Rikka Racelis.]   JetBlue The Center, Long Beach was the beneficiary of Jet Blue’s JetPride flight from San Francisco to Long Beach on May 14, 2010 for Long Beach Gay Pride. The rainbow-powered flight featured hilarious comedian, Pam Ann, serving as the flight's honorary purser. The flight featured pink cocktails, gift bags, and other goodies. The flight number was designated #1969 which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the birth of the Gay Pride movement. Thank you Jet Blue for your support!   Entertainment AIDS Alliance The Entertainment AIDS Alliance has renewed their support of The Center, Long Beach with a $5,000 grant. EAA is a volunteer group of entertainment industry professionals which was formed in 1989 to respond to the urgent need for funding AIDS service organizations nationwide. Over ninety percent of funds raised are distributed to qualifying AIDS healthcare organizations and facilities.