Member Profile - Kim Hunt 
Kim Hunt, Executive Director of Affinity Community Services. A non-profit community organizing organization that has focused on social justice and community building for African American lesbians and bi-sexual women and LGBT youth of African descent for 14 years.
How does Affinity's programs benefit the LGBTQ community? Affinity has been around for 15 years. We benefit the LGBTQ community in the areas of leadership development, information dissemination, providing safe spaces, and bringing our constituents' voices to decision making and resource tables. Some of our programs are planned and led by constituent volunteers so we know there's a direct connection to a desired program. In other scenarios our staff and board serve as resources during policy & initiative planning and at public events. We often bring diversity to "mainstream" LGBTQ discussions AND discussions and initiatives within broader Black communities. Why do you feel it's important for Black lesbians to attend National Black lesbian Conference? There are few to no opportunities for Black lesbians to get together on a national scale. We are often invisible within the communities where we live and certainly within LGBTQ movements for civil rights. The Zuna Institute conferences provide opportunities for us to see each other, learn some things, meet our sisters in the struggle, and just be without the self-consciousness of being the only Black lesbian in the crowd at other conferences and organized activities. Affinity Community Services
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