Programs

Students at Texas Southern University and University of Houston (Main Campus), can access FREE condom kits by texting the word ‘ACTION’ to 832-802-9016. Our staff will arrange a time to meet after 5PM on campus. Students can also ask basic sex education questions, as well as obtain testing and PrEP referrals.

Black Trans Empowerment Week celebrates the life, legacy, and love of Black Trans people, specifically Black Women of Trans Experience. At this moment, transgender women of color are living in crisis, more than 150 transgender people have been killed in the United States, nearly all of them Black Wome of Trans Experience. The Trans Empowerment and Alliance Party served as a celebration towards healing, honoring, and sustaining ourselves during BTEW.

During this time, we honor three individuals (or agency) with the following awards ‘The Chyna Gibson Community Advocate Man of the Year’, ‘The Chyna Gibson Woman of The Year’ and ‘The Freda McFarland Community Ally of The Year Award’. This event

The Community Advocacy Program provides community-based volunteer opportunities, voter’s rights and social justice engagement, and advocacy training for youth and young adults. Our objective is to take control of our communities by cultivating and developing its next generation of leaders via awareness, education, and empowerment.

Dear Somebody: The Voices Once Unheard, is a volume of books sharing the lived experience of Black and Brown TLGB+ individuals, as they revisit memories in their lives that shaped their future and giving life to the person they are today.

This is their narrative! These are the moments that define them, whether it was good, bad or indifferent life happened.

Promoting healthy body imagery and self-love among Black and Latinx gay and bisexual men, other SGL men of color, people of the trans experience, and Black women in Texas. Tastefully revealing photos will be created and paired with messaging highlighting the importance of self-love. This campaign will highlight that body types come in a variety of shapes and sizes and will focus on decreasing HIV acquisition by improving self-efficacy and increasing self-worth.