Mission Statement and Core Values

Our Vision

CenterLink envisions a society that celebrates diversity, acknowledges the dignity of LGBT people, and embraces full human rights for all citizens. Furthermore, CenterLink envisions a time when all LGBT people, in cities and towns of all sizes, have access to strong gay and lesbian community centers that enrich and improve our lives.

Our Mission
CenterLink exists to support the development of strong, sustainable LGBT community centers and to build a unified center movement.

Our Principles
Centers are engines of community organizing and liberation and crucial to the health and strength of LGBT communities.  To assist   centers in building a movement that honors and promotes full human rights and dignity for all LGBT people, CenterLink works to build capacity, strengthen linkages, and advocate empowerment, self-reliance, inclusion and diversity among every community center in our national coalition.  CenterLink acts as the voice for LGBT community centers in national grassroots organizing and coalition building.

Core Values
We believe that community centers are primary change agents in a national movement working toward the liberation and empowerment of LGBT people.

We believe in democracy as a viable and effective means of empowering individuals to create progressive social change.  We support and honor other communities whose civil rights struggles paved the way for our movement, and we value and work for full human rights and self-determination for all people.

We value a national association governed by an inclusive process and that collaborates with other national LGBT organizations.

We believe in the right of each member center to self-direction and value all centers regardless of size, services or programs.

We value the worth and dignity of all people and strive to create and sustain community institutions that make this value a reality in the workplace.

We celebrate our queer culture and value our cultural and political heritage.

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