AIDS/HIV advocate strives to be “part of the change” in addressing racial disparities in health care
Davenport AIDS/HIV advocate Destiny Smith shares how health care disparities have affected Black women “from the beginning of time.”
Read MorePosted by Destiny Smith | Aug 1, 2023 | Archives, 2023, BIPOC, Health, Home Page Lead, Personal Growth, Perspectives, Special Sections, The Project Pages, Women
Davenport AIDS/HIV advocate Destiny Smith shares how health care disparities have affected Black women “from the beginning of time.”
Read MorePosted by Christine Hawes | Jul 26, 2023 | The Project Pages, 2023, Archives, Health, Home Page Lead, July 2023, LGBTQ+, News, Special Sections
Iowans and others seeking gender-affirming care for youth will have a new option at The Project of the Quad Cities in Moline by September, and fundraising started in July.
Read MorePosted by Christine Hawes | Jun 21, 2023 | Human Interest, 2023, Archives, Home Page Lead, June 2023, Photos & Videos, The Project Pages
QUAD CITIES — The 3rd Annual Pride Party at Bass Street Landing Saturday drew a non-stop crowd all afternoon and evening, and The Real Mainstream’s photo gallery focuses on community members taking in the vibe.
The Pride Party, in Moline, is among more than two dozen Pride events that are part of this year’s Quad Cities Pride season. A reminder: Pride Month is a commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn bar in New York City stood up against police that had been harassing and intimidating the bar’s patrons.
Those patrons included not only drag queens and kings, transgender/nonbinary people, gay men and lesbians, but also people from other walks of life who felt unaccepted by the “mainstream.”
Enjoy the gallery.
Read MorePosted by Christine Hawes | Oct 28, 2022 | 2022, Archives, Eastern Iowa, Education, Illinois, Iowa, LGBTQ+, News, Northwest Illinois, October 2022, The Project Pages
Viminda Shafer leads The Village Project, a chance to learn about gender, pronouns and other things LGBTQ+.
Read MorePosted by Christine Hawes | Jun 20, 2022 | The Project Pages, 2022, Archives, Health, Human Interest, Illinois, Iowa, June 2022, Profiles
Meet Viminda Shafer, community relations coordinator of The Project of the Quad Cities, in the October edition of The Project Page.
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