Pride, Purpose, Passion: Joe Hawkins celebrates 5 years of Oakland’s

Pride, Purpose, Passion: Joe Hawkins celebrates 5 years of Oakland’s LGBTQ Center with a star-studded Pride Fest

FOR THE PEOPLE Joe Hawkins Has Devoted His Life To Community Service, Care And Health For All Oaklanders

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(Photo By D. Scot Miller) In August of 2019, EBX sat down with Oakland LGBTQ Center CEO Joe Hawkins and vp Dawn

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Edwards, to rejoice two years of an area that nearly didn’t occur. Hawkins recalled: “About six years in the

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past, co-founder and contemporary board president Jeff Myers and I participated in the Hands Around The Lake

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event after Trump received the election. It changed into a completely sad day, and we knew that matters

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had been about to hit the fan. For years, there has been talk approximately beginning a LGBTQ network center,

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and not anything passed off. I’m additionally one of the co-founders of Oakland Pride, and although I’m now not

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with that organization, I wrote within the task statement that it would one day boost money for a middle. But once I left,

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Pride, Purpose, Passion: Joe Hawkins celebrates 5 years of Oakland’s LGBTQ Center with a star-studded Pride Fest

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