The next stop was in Tremont in 1980 in the former Bernard's Furniture Store (now a parking lot next to Grumpy's.) From 1982 to 1988, GEAR met at a board member's home in Ohio City before adopted the new name and buildings space as the Lesbian Gay Community Service Center on West 29th.įinally, in 2000, the most recent move was made to Gordon Square and our current name, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland was adopted in 2005. GEAR then moved briefly downtown to New Dimensions Disco for two years.
In 1977, the GEAR had a brief stay in the Coventryard Building before an electrical fire destroyed the building. We are located on a portion of Gay Street that remains the last downtown stretch which has all the building from the turn of the century still intact. The first installment, the Gay Education and Awareness Resources Foundation (GEAR) met in various members' homes and utilized the Free Clinic for programs. The Center has had multiple places that it has called home over the past 40 years. They also provide sensitivity training for students, employers and more. By some counts, Cleveland once had as many as two dozen gay bars in the 1970s, many of them in the Warehouse District and on a stretch of St.
The Center provides programming in the areas of health and wellness, youth and young adult and a variety of support, discussion and actvity groups. Since 1975, The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland has been serving the needs of the LGBT+ community in Northeastern Ohio.
