GENERAL INFORMATION
Introduction
About the Center
Calendar
Special Events
Scheduling Activities
Location
Contact Information
Fundraising
Volunteers Program

UTSCC-RUN ACTIVITIES
Bisexual Group
Community AIDS Action Team
Friday Night Drop-in
GLBT Hotline
Horizons Youth Group
Library and Archives
Property Maintenance
Rainbow Reader
Social Action Committee
Transgender Group

INDEPENDENT GROUPS
Health Dept. HIV Testing
Open Door Chapel
Up The Steps A.A.

About the Center

Mission: Up The Stairs Community Center serves as a meeting place and safe haven for the GLBT community in and around Fort Wayne, Indiana.  The center is open to any non-profit GLBT-supportive groups for their activities.  In addition, there are center-sponsored activities, projects and events designed to meet the needs of the GLBT community not being met by other individuals and organizations.  A self-appointing board oversees the center.  Click on the items on the blue menu to the left for more information on specific activities.

Activities at the center:   see our Calendar and Events web pages. 

Planning activities at the center :   see our Scheduling web page.

UTSCC history timeline:

1982 -- UTSCC opens in August in it's second floor location at 305 West Jefferson above Rainbows of Life Bookstore.  Gay/Lesbian Organization (GLO) and Open Door Chapel are it's first tenants.  Organizations Later, the Gay/Lesbian Helpline and the Gay/Lesbian Archives/Resource Center set up at the center.
1985 -- UTSCC moves to temporary quarters in the Chapel Lounge of First Presbyterian Church on October 1st.
1986 --  UTSCC moves to it's 3426 Broadway location on June 1st.
1997 -- UTSCC's Horizons Youth Group established; Rainbow Reader's first issue published in June.
1998 -- UTSCC Archives and Resource Library formally opens on April 19th with material donated from the earlier Archives/Resource Center; Bisexual Discussion Group started; first Pride Festival held at Freimann Square.
1999 -- Board membership positions increased to up to 15; Social Action Committee started.
2002 -- UTSCC takes possession of 514 E. Washington Boulevard on February 8th and moves in July 13th.

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