Mental Health Meet: Sexual Minorities Express Viewpoints

A clipping from the Seattle Sun talking about people with different gender and sexual identities and how they could go to the Seattle Counseling Center for guidance through their problems. Counselors also share their experiences trying to find support. 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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Identifier: 5712m700k
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
Institution: University of Washington Libraries
Creator(s): Clegg, Paul
Publisher: Seattle Sun
Date Issued: circa 1974 to circa 1982
Genre: Clippings
Subject(s): Chris Darling
Gwyn Hanscom
Pat Haggerty
Pat Hall
Rudy Cotten
Seattle Counseling Service
Seattle Sun
Places: Washington > King County > City of Seattle > Seattle
Topic(s): Children of queer people
Counseling
Gay men
Homosexuality
Lesbian-gay relations
Navy agents
Sexual identity
Transgender people
Transsexual people
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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