BILLY DEFRANK LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY CENTER
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Mission Statement
The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides a safe space, leadership, advocacy, services, and support for the LGBTQ+ community and allies. 938 The Alameda San Jose, Ca 95126 (408) 293-3040 www.defrank.org
About This Cause
About us... The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center opened its doors on March 1, 1981 in a two-room storefront on Keyes St. in south downtown San Jose. A year earlier, the DeFrank Center's founders had watched with concern as Santa Clara County residents voted to repeal ordinances extending housing and employment protections to lesbians and gay men. Before the COVID Pandemic the Billy DeFrank Center had over a thousand people visit each week at our current quarters on The Alameda, and many more people called our Information & Resources telephone number. When we opened our doors again after the severity of the pandemic subsided, the Center has again supported 1,000 people a week engaged in the Center both in person and on-line. The DeFrank Center movement is fueled by the events of the time. William Price (Billy DeFrank) knew it and his legacy remains a call to action for our community to continue his important work to create a safe space for LGBTQ's and allies. We continue to fight for our rights, advance liberty and justice for all and provide opportunities for positive social identification. The DeFrank Center is “a place to call home.” Now we are seeing a serge of LGBTQ+ Hate emerge across the Country and locally in the Silicon Valley. We are now more than every vigilante about our safety, and more than ever need our safe space to give us the ability to be our full selves. Mission Statement The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides a safe space, leadership, advocacy, services, and support for the LGBTQ+ community and allies. Vision The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center promotes LGBTQ+’s to be their full identities and become advocates for each other to create a more inclusive world. The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center is a 501(c)(3) organization.