Outside the Bay Area, the Sacramento and Los Angeles LGBT centers are addressing budget cuts similar to their counterparts. In Northern California, the Sacramento center is dealing with uncertainty over a federal grant, while in Los Angeles, there has been a small victory, at least for now.

The Sacramento LGBT Community Center is located at 1015 20th Street, in the California capital city’s queer Lavender Heights neighborhood. Executive Director David Heitstuman, a gay man, told the Bay Area Reporter that ongoing federal funding for the center provided through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration was pulled earlier than expected this spring and after the center had already provided the services it funded.

“It was going to expire at the end of June,” Heitstuman sa

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