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We’re proud to be recognized for our work uplifting LGBTQ+ youth on Chicago’s West Side. Explore recent media coverage and press highlights that showcase how TaskForce is advancing health, equity, and opportunity in our community and beyond.
- Inspira Advantage
Our Interview With Hannah Pewee, Associate Director of Communications at TaskForce Prevention and Community Services
An interview with Inspira Advantage on healthcare barriers for LGBTQ+ communities, the need for culturally competent care, and how PrEP4Teens empowers youth in HIV prevention.
- WTTV | PBS
Black-Led HIV Prevention Groups Push for More Equitable Funding Amid Federal Cuts
Advocates said funding inequities are leaving several Black-led HIV and AIDS prevention groups struggling to keep doors open and provide care.
- WBEZ Chicago
Leaders in Chicago’s HIV and AIDS community call for equitable funding in the face of federal cuts
Black-led HIV and AIDS service organizations struggle for equitable access to funding.
- Chicago Tribune
Groups that support LGBTQ+ individuals brace for funding cuts that could affect HIV care, prevention
Chicago-area groups that support LGBTQ+ individuals are navigating an uncertain landscape while bracing for federal funding cuts that could affect HIV care and prevention.
- Windy City Times
Taskforce Prevention celebrates its 35th anniversary: The Evolution of the Gay Black Revolution
To some, the organization is unheard of. But to most within the Black and Brown LGBTQ+ community, Taskforce Prevention has been a haven—a space to exist authentically even amid a time, a city and a Presidential administration that tells them their existence is a stain or a fallacy.
- Austin Weekly
TaskForce leads Pride Parade, a historic moment for West Side LGBTQ+ community
Celebrating 35 years of service, TaskForce Prevention and Community Services champions LGBTQ+ youth and community care
- WTTV | PBS
Inside Chicago’s Queer Ballroom Scene: ‘This Little Slice of Fantasy’
This year, some Chicagoans are leaning into the joyful aspect of Pride via the local ballroom scene — the subculture that was pioneered by Black and Latino queer and transgender people in the 1960s that bore the popular house dance style voguing.
- ABC 7 Chicago
Chicago Pride Parade organizers highlighting community organizations
2025 Chicago Pride Parade organizers are highlighting community organizations, like West Garfield Park's TaskForce Prevention and Community Services.
- Windy City Times
TaskForce to lead Chicago Pride Parade in historic first
For the first time in its 54-year history, the Chicago Pride Parade will be led by a local community group: TaskForce Prevention & Community Services, a Black-led LGBTQ+ youth health and wellness organization based on the West Side.
