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• William Way Community Center (formerly Penguin Place)
  Name of Organization: William Way Community Center (formerly Penguin Place)
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• 247
  ....jpg|480x801px|The 247 Bar sign, donated to the William Way LGBT Community Center by Avi Eden in honor of his wife, Judith Eden (1947-2008).]]
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• Acosta, David*
  [[File:acosta david.jpg|257x378px|center]] ...s of the AIDS Quilt Project) to Philadelphia, and specifically to a Latino community in a large metropolitan city, at that time a first for the Names Project. <
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• Allegro
  ...was also the object of some protests and boycotting by members of the gay community for two particular reasons that I recall. One was a "dress code" that forba
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• Allekotte, Victor
  [[File:SafeGuard.jpg|267x378px|center]] ...sical rigors of the job. It was at this point he became involved with many community groups. He was very active with several Alcoholics Anonymous groups, primar
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• Alvarez, Jose A.
  [[File:jose01.JPG|347x416px|center|Jose Alvarez]] ...nos in Philadelphia to recognize the problem that AIDS posed to the Latino community, and to do something about it," said Alba Martinez, executivePublished on 1
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• Anderson, John
  [[File:John Anderson & Jeff Britton, WWDem Club.jpg|582x420px|center|John C. Anderson (l) with Jeff Britton of the Walt Whitman Democratic Club] ...ivil rights bill for sexual minority people. The John C. Anderson Cultural Center in Overbrook is named after him. He was a mentor to City of Philadelphia Ma
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• Atwood, Richard Dale, Jr.
  [[File:Richard Dale Atwood.jpg|center]] ...at the Le Bec-Fin restaurant in Center City and a volunteer for Episcopal Community Services. Mr. Atwood was born in Ohio, where he attended Woodward High Scho
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• Avicolli Mecca, Tommi*
  [[File:Tommi.jpg|386x362px|center]] ...and Lesbian Arts Festival. He was on the board of the first LGBT community center and helped organize its weekly Gay Coffeehouse.
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• Baker, Norman
  [[File:NormanBaker.jpg|240x368px|center]] ...d Baker’s tenacity made him an exemplary advocate for the local HIV/AIDS community. “Norman knew a lot about advocacy,” Shull said. “He respected no bou
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• Baron, Hank*
  [[File:gayhistory/Baron1-21.jpg|298x298px|center]] ...ial brownies" for the occasion which we enjoyed by the fountain on Lincoln Center Plaza before entering the opera house and smoking a joint on the balcony ju
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• Bartlett, Chris*
  [[File:Chris-Bartlett-Photo.jpg|240x240px|center]] Chris Bartlett is a gay men's health community organizer from Philadelphia. He directed the SafeGuards Gay Men's Health Pr
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• Bartley, Theodore
  Theodore T. Bartley Jr., 51, a leader in the Philadelphia architectural community and an advocate of historical preservation, died Monday at Graduate Hospita ...Bartley owned and bred champion Airedales, and he was often seen strolling Center City, gazing at surrounding buildings while leashed dogs tugged at his hand
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• Bash, Dominic
  [[File:dominicbash.jpg|310x557px|center|Photo Credit: Jerry Gregory]] [[File:bash01.JPG|301x301px|center]]
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• Bell, John
  [[File:John Bell.jpg|center]] In 2001, FIGHT named him one of the community’s “Ten Most Effective” at its 10th anniversary gala.
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• Bill Young
  ...at was in 1978. But though my time there was short, and my time in the gay community even shorter, and although I've forgotten SO much, it was a crucially impor ...that nickname is in the obituary) because we both worked at the Annenberg Center. I remember him in short, short denim cut-offs, a flannel shirt, and work b
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• Black, Steve
  [[File:Steve Black.jpg|352x330px|center]] ...and endorsed candidates and really told voters why they were good for the community,” Bradbury said. “And it was done in a way that provided information ab
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• Blair, Mark W.
  Mark W. Blair, 51, a community and civic activist who had a shrewd knack for helping nonprofit groups and ...re than two decades in Philadelphia, Mr. Blair helped a raft of nonprofit, community and civic groups organize, strategize and get their financial affairs in or
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• Bledsoe, Tom
  [[File:bledsoe2.jpg|408x408px|center]] [[File:bledsoe1.jpg|460x460px|center]]
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• Bradley, Aaron
  [[File:Aaron Bradley.jpg|262x355px|center]] He attended Burlington County Community College before transferring to Rutgers, where he lived independently in a d
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• Britt, Deforia Rick
  [[File:Rick_Britt_photo.jpg|290x290px|center]] ...hair of the Community Advisory Board at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for AIDS Research from 2007 until his death. He had also served on the boar
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• Broadley, Rodger, Rev'd *
  [[File:l_chris-bartlett_300x257.jpg|center|Chris Bartlett (l.) and Rev. Broadley (r) at St. Luke's]] ...entrification of the neighborhood, the AIDS crisis, an increasing need for community space beyond Sunday worship, and the current growth of both the student pop
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• Brown, Bob Brownie
  [[File:Brown_Bob.jpg|center]] Motlasz said that as much as the Venture Inn community benefited from Brown’s presence, Brown himself enjoyed his work.
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• Burns, R Keith
  [[File:R Keith Burns.jpg|center|R. Keith Burns, far right]] <span style="font-size: 12px;">The LGBT community in Philadelphia has been deeply saddened today by the news that R. Keith Bu
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• Campoli, Greg
  [[File:Greg Campoli.jpg|265x361px|center]] ...lways around him. He’d take them under his wing and show them around the community and introduce them to people. He really touched a lot of people and meant a
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• Carrocio, Joe
  ...cted as a watchdog at City Council meetings on behalf of the AIDS-affected community; and led public demonstrations to dramatize the gravity of his mission. Social/Political Groups he attends/attended: ACT UP/Cleveland, LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland, AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland
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• Cartagena, Steve
  Social/Political Groups he attends/attended: Gay Coffeehouse at Gay Community Center on Kater Street, Gay Switchboard, MANNA
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• Cook, Charles E.
  ...professor of anthropology and head of the department of social services at Community [[Category:community college]]
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• Dan Johnson
  ...of years. Came out in March 1977, lived in South Philly and then moved to Center City where I have lived ever since. I graduated from Temple University in 1 ...Lombard (now part of Health Center #1 functions), Social Worker at Health Center #3 located at 42nd St. & Chester Ave., and Public Health Program Analyst fo
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• Dehn, James
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• DesChaine, Donn
  [[File:Donn DesChaine.jpg|260x285px|center]] “The whole South Street community was very gay-friendly back in the ’70s, so he really felt at home there.
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• Eberlin, Harry
  [[File:Eberlin007.jpg|203x261px|center]] ...n the Eberlin collection at the LGBT archives in the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia. Harry was PGN's first photographer.
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• Engle, Charles
  ...the Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives, the predecessor to Mazzoni Center. ...AIDS, Eromin Center, Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives, Philadelphia AIDS Task Force
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• Eschleman, Jeffrey
  [[File:eschleman.jpg|center]] ...be listed as the cause of death, knowing it would be understood in the gay community without making life difficult for elderly family members in more rural loca
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• Faigle, Ted*
  Employment: 1979 - 1984 Community Service; 1984 - 1994 Giovanni's Room; 1994 - 2009 University of Pennsylvani ...al Gay Pride Day Organizing Committee (Parade 90), Gay & Lesbian Community Center [Producer & Host: Gaydreams, WXPN's Gay Men's Weekly Radio Hour 1979 - 1984
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• Fitzgerald, Grant Michael
  [[File:http://www.2manitowoc.com/01/23fitzgeraldgrantmichael.jpg|center]] [[File:fitzgerald.jpg|center]]
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• Frambes, Roland
  ...iography:''' Associated with the Policy Council of the early Gay Community Center (1977) ==='''Restaurateur Roland Frambes; Ran Monster Inn In Center City'''===
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• Friel, Jack
  <span style="display: block; text-align: center;"> [[File:1976 1 5 Friel&Lance Hasty Tasty.jpg|509x382px|center]]
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• Gallagher, Stephen
  [[File:Stephen Gallagher.jpg|383x288px|center]] ...ania genetic analyst Stephen Gallagher, an active member of the local LGBT community, died May 27 of acute heart failure. He was 31.
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• Garcia-Vega, Oscar
  .... He was 41 and lived in Germantown. Garcia-Vera was active on a number of community groups, said Carole Smith, a longtime friend. He was a board member of Penguin Place, a gay and lesbian community center, and of CHOICE, the health-care advocacy group.
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• Gay Coffeehouse
  Name of Organization: Gay Community Center of Philadelphia (Gay Coffeehouse) ...75, and was the predecessor of Penguin Place and the William Way Community Center in a direct line of succession.
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• Giovanni's Room
  ...it, we moved the store to larger premises on Spruce St., where the Kimmel Center is now. By that time the store had not only Rita Mae Brown’s 1973 novel ' ...me forward in huge numbers to support gay men in this awful situation. The community produced, paid for and distributed the only safer sex brochures available a
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• Jackson, Arnold
  ...was a writer, advocate, and leader of the black gay community and the AIDS community in Philadelphia for many years. ...honoring him for his work on behalf of people with AIDS and the black gay community.
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• Jenkins, David
  Jenkins found a sense of purpose in his middle name. He was devoted to his community as well as to his country and lived the principles of compassion and respec Howard Brown Health Center CEO/President Mike Cook, who befriended Jenkins for several years, told Win
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• Kaplan, Alan
  ...heatrical producer, board member of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center
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• Kelly, John F.
  ...ohn was bilinguial (English and Spanish) and he reached out to the Spanish community to provide AIDS education. He was very involved with Temple University and ...ew testimonial): John was instrumental in building up the AIDS Information Center (aka AIDS library), now maintained by FIGHT. The room containing the archiv
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• Kirk, Ted
  ...ty Living Room, a self-help group of people with HIV and mental illness in center city.
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• Korn, Michael
  ..., died Thursday of complications from AIDS. A major force within the music community here, Mr. Korn was also chorusmaster of the Opera Company of Philadelphia a ...the combined bedroom-and-study of Michael Korn's home on Juniper Street in Center City. Bach's masterpiece was one of the choral director's most cherished sc
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• Kuromiya, Kiyoshi
  [[File:Critical Path with Buckminster Fuller and K Kuromiya BW.png|480x679px|center]] He ran a community chest to help patients get free drugs, published a newsletter and ran a 24-
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• Labance, Michael
  ...Newsmagazine, died Sunday of AIDS-related lymphoma. He was 35 and lived in Center City. ...ity, co-founder and publisher of Au Courant, a news weekly serving the gay community, died Sunday of AIDS-related lymphoma at Graduate Hospital.
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• Lazin, Malcolm*
  ...Philadelphia Business Award, the Philadelphia Veterans Advisory Committee Community Service Award, Philadelphia Magazine's "Best Entrepreneur Award" and the Un
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• Lear, Walter, Dr.
  ...uscript Library and honorary chair of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health Board of Trustees. [[Category:community center]]
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• Long, Eddie
  [[File:Eddie Long.jpg|283x309px|center]] ...and studied at the Community College of Philadelphia and Montgomery County Community College.
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• Malim, Tom
  [[File:1971 Tom Malim & Jamine.jpg|551x445px|center|Jamine (l.) and Tom Malim (r.) 1971]] ...ugh 1980, Tom played a leading role in the development of a LGBT community center for Philadephia, serving as one of the co-coordinators in 1979. He was resp
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• Marcelonis, Robert
  Marcelonis was known in the Philadelphia arts community as a [[http:''en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriter|songwriter]], [[http://en.wi ...s, 41, whose musical Copernicus was staged by his friends at the Annenberg Center last June, died Thursday of complications from AIDS at his home in Germanto
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• Martin, Dan*
  [[File:Dan-Martin_300.jpg|center]] '''Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia PA, 1997'''
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• Mazzoni, Peter
  [[File:1-scale-peter_mazzoni2.jpg|center]] ...01pt 1.25in;">~ Internship at Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center</span>
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• Mishkin, Ian
  He was one of the original group founding the Kater Street Gay Community Center in 1975. Social/Political Groups he attended: Kater Street Community Center
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• Morrison, Allan L., MD
  ...rved on the board of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives. [[Category:mazzoni center]]
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• Nicolosi, Michael
  Michael, a slender, exceedingly polite young man, had worked as a clerk in a Center City florist’s shop. His firing probably didn’t make much sense to him, ...needed the help of lawyers who would provide it. Because many in the legal community understood this, starting the AIDS Law Project was not as difficult as it m
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• O'Neill, Jerry
  ...CBLSL player and commissioner, treasurer of the William Way LGBT Community Center board and finance director of ActionAIDS.
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• Organization Index
  [[Eromin Center]] [[Mazzoni Center (formerly PCHA)|Mazzoni Center]]
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• Powell, Saj
  [[File:Hof Phila Gay Pride 72 001 copy.jpg|448x349px|center|Saj at Gay Pride at Independence Park 1972]] ...sang it beautifully. Saj served on the Policy Council of the Gay Community Center in 1979 and 1980.
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• Robbins, Lee*
  ...n Group, AAII (American Society of Individual Investors), Jewish Community Center Iyengar yoga,
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• Rubini, Dennis
  ...ascular disease. Rubini, a native of New York, was very active in the LGBT community at Temple and citywide. He taught history at Temple from 1969-99. Outside the Temple community, Rubini also took a stand in the LGBT-rights movement as a member of the Ga
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• SafeGuards
  ...ndividuals and communities through community-based research, collaborative community programs, and advocacy. Since 1989, the SafeGuards Project has worked to pr * Community Outreach
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• Schoenberg, Bob*
  ...the Council for Relationships and the Community Advisory Board of the Penn Center for AIDS Research. He also teaches "Foundations of Social Work Practice" to Employment: Director, LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
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• Segal, Mark*
  campaign to change the image portrayed in the media of the gay community, resulting in national network Community Center and persuading Congress to fund it, assisting area organizations with educa
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• Silvestre, Tony*
  ...e Pittsburgh site of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Director of the Center for Research on Health and Sexual Orientation. For more information, visit
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• Sipos, Ken
  [[File:Ken Sipos.jpg|291x291px|center]] Longtime Philadelphia real-estate aficionado and active LGBT community volunteer Kenneth Sipos died last month. He was 72.
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• Smith, Tyrone*
  ...ment]] and Terrence Young of [[Mazzoni Center (formerly PCHA)|Philadelphia Community Health Alternatives]], Tyrone decided to become an agent of change. ...d form [[Impact]], an organization that helped sensitize the broader white community to the unique health, political and socal needs facing African-Americans in
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• Spector, James M
  ...e gay community, died of AIDS Friday at Pennsylvania Hospital. He lived in Center City. At his death, Mr. Spector was surrounded by his friends in a bedside
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• Stewart, Bob *
  ...aron and others a national conference in Washington, D.C. on gay community center development. ...nitially rejected by the IRS, then approved after appeal, one of the first community centers in that era to be approved, I believe.
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• Way, Bill
  [[File:Wm Way Canaries 1986 copy.jpeg|center]] ...stemming from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He was 45 and lived in Center City.
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• Weltman, Michael
  Biography:''' From Community Center history: =[[http://www.gaycenter.org/community/archive/collection/021|21. MICHAEL WELTMANN PAPERS]]=
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• Wildmann, Dave
  ...elvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> solved with the shows he promoted at the Elks Center, where alcohol was not served.</span> ...ed in Philadelphia. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Philadelphia Community Health Alternative, P.O. Box 53429, Philadelphia, Pa., 19105.</span>
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• William Way Community Center (formerly Penguin Place)
  Name of Organization: William Way Community Center (formerly Penguin Place)
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• Zalewski, Andrew
  [[File:Andrew Zalewski.JPG|149x239px|center]] Donations can be made in Andrew's name to the HIV Community Program, Attention: Pauline Lauer, Wilmington Hospital, PO Box 1668, Wilmin
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• Zeh, John
  ...famous. In 1990, Leis filed four indictments against the Contemporary Arts Center for an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography, “The Perfect Momen ...l” Cincinnati LGBT advocates. “As I began to attend events in the GLBT community, I’d find John there with his tape recorder and his pencil pad.”
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• W
  [[William Way Community Center (formerly Penguin Place)]]
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