Official Sponsors of 2009 Atlanta Black Gay Pride
Official Travel Partners
Official Event Sponsors
AID Atlanta’s mission is to provide a broad, compassionate range of HIV / AIDS services through the continuous support of our donors, volunteers and friends. AID Atlanta offers services targeted to the special needs of all individuals who are living with HIV disease, including those facing addiction or mental health issues. All services are accessible to clients regardless of any language barriers. Aid Atlanta is a Sponsor of ITLA.
We are diverse people living with HIV, united to promote self-empowerment and enhanced quality of life for HIV-affected individuals through advocacy, education, peer support, and treatment activism.
Home of Traxx and Traxx Girls.
Founded in 2002, Atlanta based One Earth Foundation is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit HIV/AIDS prevention organization committed to fighting the growingHIV/AIDS cases around the country with an emphasis on the areas andgroups with the highest rate of new HIV/AIDS cases such as America’s InnerCity Communities, youth and African American Women. As a nonprofit, One Earth Foundation, Inc provide HIV/AIDS prevention and research the programs include prevention initiatives, community outreach and public health screenings.
The nation’s oldest and largest legal organization working for the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS.
Lencoler Clinical Care is the only African American non-profit organization that provides primary health care services for HIV positive patients or patients that have developed AIDS. The mission of Lencoler Clinical Care is to improve the quality of life for patients and their families by providing superior primary care services, to reduce the transmission of HIV, to prevent or delay the onset of AIDS, and to increase the vibrant survival of patients. For additional information contact Anthony M. McGee at ammcgee@msn.com.
The mission of The Names Project is to use The AIDS Memorial Quilt to bring an end to AIDS. The goal is to provide a creative means for remembrance and healing; illustrate the enormity of the AIDS epidemic; increase public awareness of AIDS; assist with HIV prevention education; and raise funds for community-based AIDS service organizations.
National AIDS Education & Services for Minorities was created in an effort to counteract the ever increasing spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color. Since the opening of its doors in 1990, NAESM has taken great pride in serving Atlanta’s minority community. As a non-profit community based organization, NAESM is a beacon of hope for those in need of love and understanding.
The mission of NAESM is to educate communites of color (primarily African Americans) on the facts about HIV/AIDS (Education and Prevention) and to make health care and social services available to people of color with early or advanced stages of HIV/AIDS regardless of their sexual orientation.
OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth
Positive Impact’s mission is to facilitate culturally competent mental health and prevention programs for individuals affected by HIV. It is a community based organization addressing the psychological needs of people affected by HIV through staff and volunteer mental health professionals. Programs and services include individual, couples, and family counseling; group counseling; African American outreach; Latino outreach; homeless outreach; HIV prevention programs; psychological evaluations; and psychiatric assessments.
UFC Atlanta strives to be a beacon of light taking on the responsibility of being an uncompromising voice for truth and justice for all people. We are the manifestations of LOVE doing the work to demonstrate God’s LOVE for all humanity. It is also the mission of Unity Fellowship Church to be a place where the expressions of GOD can be revealed beyond the limits of race, class, age, education, gender and sexual orientation.
YouthPride strives to enhance the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth through advocacy, education, outreach, support services, and youth activities.
ZAMI, Inc. is a not-for-profit collective of lesbians of African descent residing in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. Our primary mission is the procurement and dispensation of scholarship funds to lesbians of African descent attending an accredited post secondary institution in the southern part of the United States. We also provide a forum and affirming safe space for the voices of lesbian writers of color. Finally, ZAMI sponsors special programming to develop the leadership potential of young lesbians and to honor the life and legacy of Audre Lorde.