2006 marked the 30th anniversary of our Gay Men's Health Collective (GMHC), and in true Berkeley Free Clinic fashion, we celebrated with a raucous burlesque show. “I still remember the cowboy who stripped while bouncing on the pogo stick,” said Jane Maxwell, a phlebotomy volunteer. But Kasper, the GMHC alum who organized much of the event, mostly remembers all the work it took to get the night off the ground.

The new optical services partnership with Mindful Eyes is getting glasses to clients on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month from 5:30 until 7:30pm.  Each week we have been seeing about 9 clients who need, but can’t afford, new prescription eyeglasses or reading glasses.