The LGBTQ Center Long Beach free Christmas Meals!
Long Beach Irish Pub and Restaurant, The Auld Dubliner.
On Christmas Day, the LGBTQ Center Long Beach offers a contactless pickup of free, ready to heat meals from The Auld Dubliner restaurant
LONG BEACH, CA (December 21, 2020) – LGBTQ Center Long Beach volunteers will be giving out free, prepared, ready-to-heat meals on Christmas Day created by Long Beach Irish Pub and Restaurant, The Auld Dubliner. A contactless pickup is available at The Center, 2017 E. 4th Street in Long beach from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or while supplies last. The meal includes tomato bisque soup, Shepherd’s Pie, the traditional Irish potato pancake Boxty, and bread pudding. A vegan option is available. “The Center has seen an increased demand for foods and support especially from seniors due to Covid-19,” said Andrew Dorado, interim executive director of the LGBTQ Center Long Beach.
The Center has distributed holiday meals for years as well as hosted an in-person Christmas Day lunch. For Thanksgiving, Hannukah and Christmas, The Center has delivered holiday meals, poinsettias, and goodie bags to individual seniors in the Long Beach area as well as to residents of Glen Park Healthy Living, an assisted living facility downtown. The LGBTQ Center Long Beach supports more than 25,000 people a year through programs including youth services, senior services, counseling, legal services, domestic violence support, trans health programs, HIV and STI testing, and more than 20 weekly support groups. Currently, many of these services are offered online during the pandemic. Drive-up and walk-up HIV/STI testing is now available by appointment Monday through Friday in a private area of the parking lot behind The Center at 2017 E. 4th Street in Long Beach. For more information on services, visit www.centerlb.org or follow @CenterLB on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About The LGBTQ Center Long Beach:
Since 1977, The LGBTQ Center Long Beach has provided support and community to LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies in the Greater Long Beach, CA area. The Center focuses its work in five major areas which include youth and family support, older adult programs, health testing and mental health treatment, and legal services for victims of discrimination and crime including one of the nation’s few LGBTQ+ domestic violence clinics. Each month The Center offers more than two dozen free community workshops, meetings, and programs that appeal to folks of each Pride rainbow color. It also produces several annual events including QFilms Long Beach, an annual LGBTQ+ film festival, AIDS Walk Long Beach, and Transgender Week of Visibility celebrations. For Long Beach Pride, The Center hosts the annual Teen Pride Dance and creates the Family Fun Zone, a sober area for people of all ages. Follow The LGBTQ Center Long Beach @CenterLB on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or visit www.CenterLB.org.