An LGBTQ community centre (American spelling: LGBTQ community center), or pride center (from gay pride), is a building which hosts services for non-heterosexual youth, seniors, adult men and women, and trans individuals, as well as an organization which owns and maintains such a building on a non-profit, non-political basis.
Common focuses for LGBTQ community center activities include A number of LGBTQ community centers are youth-centric "drop-in" establishments, allowing usage or participation by young people aged 30 or lower.
LGBTQ community centers are often the most visible LGBTQ institutions in high-density municipal areas where gay villages are not in effective establishment (e.g., in Israel, where municipal community centers are established without the presence of a high LGBTQ demographic concentration); as a result of such local visibility, LGBTQ community centers often have come under both verbal and violent attack from anti-LGBTQ individuals and groups.
The LAGLC, was established in 1969 in Los Angeles, followed in close succession by other community centers in San Diego (1973), Chicago (1973), Salt Lake City (1975), and Atlanta (1976).
[2] More were established in the coming decades in major cities throughout the Western world and Westernized countries due to the increasing visibility and respectability of LGBTQ cultures and society.