Thrive with Pride | Live music, refreshments, and thought-provoking conversations #NoCeilingCPL

Thrive with pride, an engaging conversation to raise awareness and inspire action around concerns in the LGBTQ+ community including homelessness and alarming levels of violence against transgender people.

Enjoy live music, refreshments, and thought-provoking conversations with other young professionals and career-focused individuals in Main Library’s Eastman Reading Garden in downtown Cleveland.

Friday, June 24 | 5:30 – 8:30pm
Main Library, Eastman Reading Garden

Entertainment

  • Performance by Hip-Hop Artist, Chanelle Kazadi 
  • Music provided by DJ StepOne

Discussion

Gulnar Feerasta

Moderator

Senior Director of Programs, LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland

Braveheart Gillani

Panelist

PhD Student at Case Western Reserve University Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences 

Bridgette Lewis

Panelist

QYou Program Coordinator – Cleveland, LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland

Carey Gibbons

Panelist

Queer Youth Outreach and Engagement Manager, Northeast Ohio Homeless Center

Tom Stebel

Panelist

Volunteer at Cleveland’s LGBT center

Resources for Cleveland LGBTQIA+

LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland 

6705 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 
(216) 651-5428 

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless 

3631 Perkins Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114 
https://www.neoch.org/
(216) 432-0540 

Plexus LGBT & Allied Chamber of Commerce 

6705 Detroit Ave Ste 114, Cleveland, OH 44102 
https://www.thinkplexus.org/
(888) 753-9879  

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