Community Newsletter
Hello Community, First of all, thank you. The love, support, and gratitude this community has shared with us has been remarkable. We are so proud of the work we are able to do, and we simply could not do it without each and every one of you. Continue reading the newsletter...
Community Newsletter
Dearest Community, Hello again. This week has come with many overwhelming feelings. Take a moment - loosen your shoulders, relax your jaw, take a deep breath. Continue reading the newsletter...
Lansing's LGBTQ+ Center Celebrates Pride Month With Community Events
"We serve LGBTQIA+ community folks. That's young folks. That's older folks, and everybody in between. And we serve them by creating space." Continue reading on WKAR.org...
The pandemic put the Salus Center at risk; the community responded.
"As of January 11, the campaign has shattered its goal, raising over $120,000, enough to fund the center for nearly two years." Continue reading on Lansing State Journal...
Salus Center, one of the few LGBTQIA community centers, trying to raise $80k to stay open
"We are very fortunate to have a super supportive and amazing community that’s helped us raise about $40K already, and we just need that final push to get the second half of our funding to stay open and continue serving the community for the rest of the year." Continue reading on WLNS News...
The only LGBTQ center in Lansing is facing threats to its survival. New leaders aim to save it.
"'I like that we are building off the legacy of Phiwa and the legacy of LGBTQ people before them,' Aldridge said. 'It has been a positive experience working with the co-directors and others in the community.'" Continue reading on Lansing State Journal...
Is your business an inclusive space for LGBTQ people in Lansing?
"Doing business with inclusive enterprises (and avoiding the ones that aren’t) is how the LGBTQ community have made their voices heard in Lansing, especially since the state’s more than 40-year-old civil rights law doesn’t specifically protect them." Continue reading on Lansing State Journal...
LGBTQ ‘quoir’ closes its season on a hopeful note
"The self-described 'queer quoir' started in 2017. Its second annual concert consisted of gospel and contemporary tunes that related to this year’s theme of unrelenting hope." Continue reading on Lansing City Pulse...
“The choir is kind of a visual and auditory example of what Salus could be in an embodied way."
TRUE LGBTQ Teen Group Weekly at Lansing Salus Center
"LGBTQ support group TRUE is a program from Gateway that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth between the ages of 13 and 18 in the Lansing area." Continue reading on Between the Lines...
Today in Lansing: Mural unveiling at Salus Center
"Teens from the Reach Studio Art Center’s 'Teen Open Studio' project will unveil their mural for the Salus Center, an LGBTQ resource and community center downtown." Continue reading on Lansing City Pulse...
Langeni: New center will provide community resoures to LGBTQ
"I chose Salus as the name for this new community because salus is the Latin word meaning wholeness and well-being. That it’s a word not commonly used lends itself to the beauty of co-creating the evolving meanings of Salus within the gathering community." Continue reading on Lansing State Journal...