Our Mission Statement

The Diversity Center is a community center dedicated to advancing the causes and priorities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and their allies in Santa Cruz County.

Our Guiding Principles

The Diversity Center operates by the following Guiding Principles:

  1. Welcomes community members of diverse ages, races, ethnic backgrounds, genders, spiritualities, physical abilities and incomes.
  2. Provides support and services to nurture, liberate and celebrate LGBTIQ individuals and organizations.
  3. Offers access to informational, educational, and social resources and activities designed to empower individuals to achieve their fullest potential.
  4. Works to create an anti-racist LGBTIQ community by combating prejudice.
  5. Promotes strong community partnerships that increase the center's visibility and that support the center's mission.
  6. Strengthens the sense of community for LGBTIQ individuals through education, advocacy and outreach.

Everyone Needs A Place

See the map to our center for directions. Serving the Santa Cruz county Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning Community of Santa Cruz County. We serve our community in various ways. First of all, we provide safe space for visitors. Each week, many visitors come through our door. Everyone who enters is welcome, treated with respect, and assisted in the best way possible by one of our dedicated volunteer hosts. Visitors utilize our lending library of over 2000 titles, watch videos, or relax in our garden area and socialize with others. They come for friendship, safety, support, referral, our lending and resource library, cyber center, or in-house sponsored activities and events. We are open in the afternoons six days a week and almost every night special meetings are scheduled. See the schedule for open hours and activities held at the center. Our center hosts field numerous phone calls seeking business and service referrals as well as center activity information. We also field many calls and visits from people looking for a job, living quarters, health information, and professional services referrals.

By having a place The Diversity Center provides services to our community members in the best way possible. If you are new in town, coming out, questioning or out and about and proud, The Diversity Center touches the lives of everyone in our community in some way - now more than ever.

THE DIVERSITY CENTER BY-LAWS


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