LGBT Center of Greater Reading warns it is at risk of closing its doors

LGBT Center of Greater Reading warns it is at risk of closing its doors

It provides counseling, it hosts movie nights, it offers writing workshops. It offers fresh food to families through its pantry and connects people with much-needed resources. It helps young people, it helps older adults, it helps families. It helps the community. But now, in order to keep doing all that it does, the LGBT Center of Greater Reading is the one that needs some support. The center is facing a dire financial crisis, one that is threa…

The Stars Depart with Closing of Strange Constellation Art Space

Although the queer and BIPOC led art space was open for “just” a year and nine months, Strange Constellation was met with the kind of sudden, galvanic, runaway horses’ success that only happens when a new venture fills a deep yearning need in a community. The closure comes with multiple reasons. The easiest of which to grasp was the question of money, and how to maintain such an expressly anti-capitalist space for community amid the grinding req…