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STAR Program - Brooklyn 🌟 Join our welcoming, diverse community committed to health equity. Discover our dedicated LGBTQIA+ Health Initiative for inclusive care.

Explore our range of primary care and specialty services, from HIV and HCV screening to behavioral health support. The Special Treatment and Research (STAR) Program at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (www.starprogram.nyc), a multidisciplinary HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) care, clinical education and research program, provides comprehensive primary care through its STAR Health Center (SHC). The SHC operates in the ambulatory care department of SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital of Brooklyn and at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center (“STAR-Brookdale”). The SHC is designated as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and an Opioid Overdose Prevention Program. The STAR Health Center offers comprehensive and confidential treatment services for adults (age 18+), including rapid HIV testing, primary care, women’s health care, specialized care for LGBT populations (including LGBT primary care, high resolution anoscopy, and transgender care), PrEP/PEP, HCV screening and treatment, sub-specialty services, adherence education, nutritional services, prenatal care, case management, specialized family case management, care coordination, home-based directly observed therapy, re-entry services for those released from incarceration, and a full scope of behavioral health services, including psychiatric evaluation and treatment, supportive counseling (outpatient and home based), support groups, buprenorphine treatment, substance use counseling, harm reduction, and referrals for ongoing counseling.

Sometimes history was there all along.Photographer Alice Austen spent much of her life at Clear Comfort on Staten Island...
10/14/2026

Sometimes history was there all along.

Photographer Alice Austen spent much of her life at Clear Comfort on Staten Island, where she shared a decades-long partnership with Gertrude Tate.

Through Austen’s photography—and the story of their life together—we see a powerful reminder that LGBTQAI+ history has always been part of New York history, even when it wasn't fully recognized.

Sometimes history isn’t missing. We simply have to learn how to see it.

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Q***r history is also the history of home.In the Bronx, Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster built a life together that beca...
10/13/2026

Q***r history is also the history of home.

In the Bronx, Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster built a life together that became part of New York’s Black le***an history.

Hampton’s legacy as a performer, activist, and contributor to the Le***an Herstory Archives helped preserve stories that too often went undocumented.

Their story reminds us that LGBTQAI+ history also lives in everyday moments—love, partnership, home, and chosen family.

Our lives have always been here. Our stories deserve to be remembered.

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From this home, a voice reached the world.Writer, poet, mother, and activist Audre Lorde used her words to confront raci...
10/12/2026

From this home, a voice reached the world.

Writer, poet, mother, and activist Audre Lorde used her words to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and injustice—while affirming the power of identity, difference, and community.

Her legacy reminds us that LGBTQAI+ history is also Black history, women’s history, literary history, and New York history.
Our voices matter. Our stories shape the world.

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A house became a safe haven.From 1995 to 2008, Transy House in Brooklyn provided shelter, community, and support for tra...
10/11/2026

A house became a safe haven.

From 1995 to 2008, Transy House in Brooklyn provided shelter, community, and support for transgender and gender-diverse people who needed a safe place to call home.

It also became an important space for activism and was the final residence of pioneering activist Sylvia Rivera.

Its legacy reminds us that movements are built not only in the streets—but also in homes, through chosen family, care, and belonging.
You belong here.

She understood that health equity changes lives. Dr. Helen RodrĂ­guez-TrĂ­as was a Puerto Rican physician and public heal...
10/11/2026

She understood that health equity changes lives.

Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías was a Puerto Rican physician and public health leader who dedicated her career to expanding healthcare access and advancing women’s and children’s health, as well as the needs of underserved communities.

Her legacy reminds us that better health requires more than treatment. It requires access, dignity, advocacy, and equity.
Salud. Justicia. Comunidad.

Remembrance became a movement.In 1990, Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican New Yorker, was killed in an anti-gay attack in ...
10/10/2026

Remembrance became a movement.

In 1990, Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican New Yorker, was killed in an anti-gay attack in Jackson Heights, Queens.

His death galvanized LGBTQAI+ and Latino communities, helping strengthen organizing in Queens and build momentum toward the first Queens Pride Parade in 1993.

Today, his name remains part of the neighborhood he called home.

We remember Julio. We honor the community that turned grief into action.

She fought for the people left out of the room.Born in New York City to Puerto Rican and Venezuelan parents, Sylvia Rive...
10/10/2026

She fought for the people left out of the room.

Born in New York City to Puerto Rican and Venezuelan parents, Sylvia Rivera became a fierce advocate for transgender people, LGBTQAI+ youth, people of color, and others too often pushed to the margins.

Her legacy reminds us that real progress must include the people most likely to be excluded.

Orgullo. Resistencia. Visibilidad.

History survives because someone decides it matters.For LGBTQAI+ History Month, the STAR Program continues our journey t...
10/09/2026

History survives because someone decides it matters.

For LGBTQAI+ History Month, the STAR Program continues our journey through New York City with a stop right here in Brooklyn at the Le***an Herstory Archives.

Founded in 1974, the Archives grew from a radical idea: that le***an lives, experiences, activism, relationships, art, and everyday stories deserved to be preserved by the community, for the community.

What began as a grassroots effort became one of the world’s most significant collections devoted to le***an history, preserving photographs, letters, publications, oral histories, personal papers, and countless pieces of memory that might otherwise have disappeared.

Its home in Park Slope reminds us that history does not live only in textbooks or museums.
Sometimes it lives in a letter.

A photograph.
A cassette tape.
A newsletter.
A story someone cared enough to save.

And that preservation matters—because when communities can see their past, they can better understand their power, their resilience, and the generations that made the present possible.
Our stories matter. Our memories matter. Our history matters.

Throughout October, STAR is helping make some of New York City’s often-invisible LGBTQAI+ histories more visible.
Our history is all around us.

Learn more at STARProgram.nyc
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When our stories weren’t invited in, we created our own stage.Founded in 1973, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe became a powerfu...
10/09/2026

When our stories weren’t invited in, we created our own stage.

Founded in 1973, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe became a powerful home for Puerto Rican and Latino voices in New York—celebrating poetry, spoken word, theater, music, and storytelling.

Its legacy reminds us that representation is not just about being seen. It’s about having the power to tell our own stories.
Nuestra voz tiene poder.

One man. Many movements.For LGBTQAI+ History Month, the STAR Program continues our journey through New York City by hono...
10/08/2026

One man. Many movements.

For LGBTQAI+ History Month, the STAR Program continues our journey through New York City by honoring Bayard Rustin—a visionary civil rights strategist, organizer, and openly gay Black man whose work helped shape some of the most important movements for justice in American history.

Rustin was a key architect of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, bringing together hundreds of thousands of people for one of the Civil Rights Movement's defining demonstrations.

Yet throughout his career, his sexuality was often used against him, forcing one of the movement’s most brilliant strategists to work behind the scenes while others stood at the microphone.

His story reminds us that Black history, LGBTQAI+ history, and civil rights history are deeply connected.

Rustin understood something that still resonates today: lasting progress is built when communities organize, stand together, and refuse to accept inequality as inevitable.

Some people lead from the spotlight. Others change history from behind it. Bayard Rustin did both.

This October, STAR celebrates the people and places that helped shape LGBTQAI+ life, activism, and visibility in New York City.
Our history is all around us.

Learn more at STARProgram.nyc
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