Ken Mayer, Research Director, Fenway Community Health Center
Mayer, Ken
Shub, Ellen
Fenway Community Health Center
Healthcare for LGBTQ+ People
Headshot of Ken Mayer, Research Director at Fenway Community Health Center.
Ellen Shub
Gay Community News (publication and photographs), 1973-1999
The History Project
1989-03
Copyright Ellen Shub 1989.
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Black-and-White Photograph
5 x 7 inches
English
Still Image
GCN.PPL-00.428
Boston, MA
Community leaders pose with model of new Fenway Community Health Center
Fenway Community Health
Harry Collings
Larry Kessler
Stewart Landers
Linette Liebling
Dale Orlando
Collings to head FCHC's Capital Campaign Efforts. Harry Collings (center), new Associate Director of the Fenway Community Health Center, discusses plans for the Center's new facility with (from left to right) Stewart Landers, chairperson for the Fuchs's Board of Directors; Lynette Libeling, AIDS ACTION Committee board chairperson; Dale Orlando, Executive Director of FCHC; and Larry Kessler, Executive Director of AAC.
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
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GCN.ORG.00230
Building sketch for the new Fenway Community Health Center
Fenway Community Health Center
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Coll. 058: Fenway Community Health Collection
Fenway Community Health Center started in 1971 when a group of students and community activists started a weekly drop-in health clinic serving the diverse population of the Fenway neighborhood: gay men, the elderly, students, and low-income tenants. In 1973, the Center moved to the basement of 16 Haviland Street and incorporated as a free-standing health center. The Center became fully licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 1978. A forum created in 1982 to discuss the medical and psycho-social issues surrounding AIDS would later become the AIDS Action Committee, which split from the Center in 1986. In 1991, the Center moved to a new state-of-the-art facility at 7 Haviland Street.
In 2009, the Center shortened its operating name to Fenway Health and moved into a new facility at 1340 Boylston Street. It provides medical, dental and eye care along with STD testing and a variety of services addressing violence recovery, substance abuse and LGBT family/parenting. It has become internationally known for its work on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research.
(Above excerpted from 1996 25th Anniversary Timeline and the Fenway Health website, www.fenwayhealth.org.)
The collection consists of newspaper clippings and publications donated by Stewart Landers relating to Fenway Community Health Center. Included are copies of newsletters dating back to 1985, such as Fenway Health, Frontlines, Healthy Outlook and Fenway Connections, as well as newspaper and magazine articles from The Boston Globe and Bay Windows. There are also pamphlets for events held by the Fenway Community Health Center, including the 1989 groundbreaking ceremony and the official 1991 opening ceremonies/ribbon cuttings for its new facility at 7 Haviland Street.
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THP-058
Interview with Dennis James, physician assistant at Fenway Community Health and part of the AIDS Action Committee, 1989 March 12
James, Dennis; Fenway Community Health Center; AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts; AIDS (Disease)--Education; Safe sex in AIDS prevention; Radio programs; Boston (Mass.); Lesbians; Gay men; Bisexuals; Transgender people
In this recording of Boston's Other Voice, which aired on March 12, 1989, host Peter Stickel interviews Dennis James, a physician assistant at Fenway Community Health, about safer sex. The term safer sex is used, instead of safe sex, to infer that sex cannot be 100% safe, but can be done more safely. James identifies some of the ways that HIV and AIDS can be transmitted, including oral sex and sexual intercourse, and discusses various barrier protections. He also brings up issues of denial, trust, and communication in relationships.
Boston's Other Voice
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
1989-03-12
Stickel, Peter
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Sound
THP-046-BOV-059_19890312
Ribbon cutting at the opening of the new Fenway Community Health Center
Fenway Community Health Center
Collings, Harry
Rizzo, Cindy
Fortunato, Arlene
Coyle, Steve
Scondras, David
Salerno, Rosaria
Jones, Cleve
Savage, Mike
The mission of Fenway Health is to enhance the well being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and all people in our neighborhoods and beyond through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy. In this photograph, a group of nine men and women with scissors cut the ribbon to open the new Fenway Community Health Center at 5-11 Haviland Street in Boston. This photograph is of a ribbon cutting at the opening of the new building on Haviland Street on March 1, 1991. Pictured, from left to right: Cindy Rizzo, Arlene Fortunato, Steve Coyle, David Scondras, Rosaria Salerno, unidentified person, Cleve Jones, Harry Collings, and Mike Savage.
Shub, Ellen
The History Project, Inc.
1991-03-01
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GCN.ORG.00229