Please help support the health of the queer community by donating to Callen-Lorde's Rainbow Run Virtual Run/Walk fundraiser, for which I will be running 10K on Saturday, May 16, 2020. Last year, friends and family helped raise $710 for our team, Glow Your Mind. This year, as you know, your help is needed more than ever. Callen-Lorde, a community health center and critical member of this nation's "shadow medical safety net," (see NY Times Magazine article link below) that with depleted funds boldly faces impossible odds in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately affects queer communities of color. Nearly 1/5 of Callen-Lorde's patients (18,000 last year) live with HIV/AIDS, and many with hepatitis and other chronic illnesses that place our community at high risk for COVID-related complications. A large proportion of patients are currently homeless. While being inexplicably turned down for a PPP loan, Callen-Lorde is also missing out on a substantial portion of its income as services billed to publicly-funded insurance programs are being reimbursed at a fraction of their usual rate due to unjust telehealth regulations. Meanwhile, nurses and doctors are cleaning makeshift hotel-hospital rooms themselves, other staff are donating paid time off, and administrators are taking pay cuts. The only thing folx aren't doing, is giving up hope. Any contribution you make will help relieve and embolden this proud and unrelenting agency, 350 strong, currently braving the front lines of this pandemic as the premiere LGBTQ community health center on the planet, driven by sheer willpower and love. Your support would mean so much to me, many thanks in advance. peace, justice & health, Felix https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/magazine/community-health-centers-covid.html