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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.
- Windy City Times
Trans leader Reyna Ortiz on new book, being prom queen
Trans Latinx activist and advocate Reyna Ortiz’s upcoming book, “T: Stands for Truth,” will be released Nov. 7.
- Windy City Times
AFC partners with CBGMC, Taskforce
The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has announced its plan to provide Taskforce Prevention and Community Services (Taskforce) and Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus (CBGMC) with development grants and support in long-term strategic planning.
- Windy City Times
Austin panel looks at violence against LGBTQ youth
Responding to the murders of two transgender women in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood this year, officials and LGBTQ youth came together Dec. 11 for a panel discussion about safety in the neighborhood.
- Windy City Times
As tensions in Lakeview increase, community groups step up efforts
With a fourth stabbing in recent weeks to hit Lakeview on July 16, the neighborhood continues to grapple with a perceived rise in crime and the anxieties of young people who feel blamed for it.
- Windy City Times
Chicago to run transgender TV show
Chicago may soon get due credit for having one of the most active and diverse transgender populations in the country. Locally based cable production company Towers Productions is looking for transgender youth for a new TV series, slotted to air as soon as early next year.
- Windy City Times
TaskForce and MINC-3: Reaching Out
This is the first of an occasional series that focuses on the Minority Intervention Network for Chicago Communities of Color (MINC-3).
- Windy City Times
AIDS Activist Robert Ames Remembered
It might be a cliché but Chicago AIDS activist Robert Lee Ames, Jr., ‘fought the good fight’ with grace, style and hope until recently taking his last breath.
