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Seattle Gay News: Seattle Counseling Service celebrates thirty years/Northwest AIDS Walk meets its goal

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Clippings from the Seattle Gay News. On the first page, the Seattle Counseling Service is talked about and their history is shared which goes into the second page. Also on the first page, the Northwest AIDS Walk is talked about and continues onto the second page. The third page discusses legislation and initiatives to not include homosexuality in the Civil Rights Act. The three pages were found together and appear to be from the same source, but some material appears to be missing, as sentences do not connect from page to page. This item comes from the Seattle Counseling Service Records at the University of Washington. SCS was the first mental health agency for LGBTQ people in the United States. Started as part of the Dorian Society in Seattle, SCS later expanded in 1969 to become an independent organization, initially funded with a $3,000 grant from the Erickson Educational Foundation. Over its long history, SCS offered individual and group counseling, support groups, and services such as HIV antibody test counseling and the first same-sex domestic violence program. SCS was notable for its longtime collaboration between cis and trans LGBTQ people. In 1974, Marsha Botzer started a trans support group at SCS, which eventually evolved into the Ingersoll Gender Center. SCS ceased operations in 2022.

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