More than 1,000 community members visit the Center every day, located in the heart of Chicago's Lakeview Neighborhood. For over 25 years, AGLOChicago has labored to reflect the light of Christ's love, offering its dazzling promise to people long forced to live in shadows, not wholly unlike the first Christians.Ĭenter on Halsted is the Midwest's most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and securing the health and well-being of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of Chicagoland. The new ministry was named the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach of Chicago, and its acronym - AGLO - was no coincidence. On June 5, 1988, a small group of gay and lesbian Catholics celebrated their first mass as a newly organized ministry of the Archdiocese of Chicago, especially created to reach out to Chicago's LGBT community. Providing case management, advocacy and housing services.ĪRCHDIOCESAN GAY AND LESBIAN OUTREACH OF CHICAGO Affinity was born out of the desire of out Black lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals to bring visibility to the south side of Chicago.įor 35 years, AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) has led the fight to create health equity and justice for people living with and disproportionately impacted by HIV and AIDS.