"Having attended four CDA conventions, I haven’t outgrown the fantasy that we are a ragtag rebel group stealing materials from rich corporations to give to the poor."
Read MoreFor the past few years, BFC has received a $20,000 grant from San Francisco's biggest kink and fetish community event. In exchange, we provide volunteers to staff Folsom fairs and parties as coat checkers, bartenders, and clean up crews.
Read MoreAs an abstract portaiture artist and former GMHC labbie, Bob practiced compassion and advocacy in all his endeavors.
Read MoreBeloved in many Bay Area communities for his activism around Hepatitis C, Orlando also wore many hats (literally and figuratively) at the Berkeley Free Clinic.
Read MoreDr. Coady, who served as the BFC Medical Director for over a decade, fought for health justice internationally as well as in her home town of Berkeley.
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Guerilla vaccinations, movie nights, and nudie calendars: read more about the outreach efforts that Finn (HPS) has organized almost singlehandedly this year!
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Just around the corner from the clinic, the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant has provided community support and legal aid to refugees fleeing war, terror, persecution, and exploitation in their home countries since 1982.
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This newsletter isn’t the Clinic’s first. A long, long time ago, in an era before copy machines were in every office, the Berkeley Free Clinic produced a hand-typed newsletter on a regular basis.
Read MoreThe 2017 annual conference of the CAFCC was held in Sacramento, in keeping with the focus this year on legislative advocacy. The representatives from the Berkeley Free Clinic gained lobbying experience and returned with a new understanding of the greater free clinic movement.
Read More"Someone kept hiding the tapes that were ordered. I find things in very weird places sometimes, stuck in drawers that no one ever looks in."
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Smith founded the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic in 1967 and gained recognition as the father of the modern free clinic movement. A few years later, he was a lecturer at UC Berkeley when a group of students approached him for advice on opening a free clinic of their own.
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"I thought it was going to be a disaster to be honest, up until the day of, and the fact that it turned out as well as it did, and the people who saw it that night don't know what a mess it was, still makes me very happy." Kasper looks back on what it took to organize a burlesque show for GMHC's 30th Anniversary Party.
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Thanks to those who helped raise funds or provided in-kind donations this year!
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