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Phoenix, Arizona
LGBTQ+ recovery center hosting 12-step meetings, free since 1991.
Lambda Phoenix Center is an LGBTQ+ addiction-recovery space at 16th Street and Virginia Avenue, running 365 days a year since 1991. It hosts a heavy weekly schedule of twelve-step meetings, 25 to 40 of them, spanning AA, NA, Crystal Meth Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous and several others, drawing over 3,000 visitors a month, most with a Zoom option and none charging a fee. The center grew out of the early 1980s, when gay AA members were turned away from mainstream meetings during the AIDS panic. Independent LGBTQ+ groups began gathering in homes and churches before incorporating as a nonprofit in 1991. Lambda bought its own building in 2007, funded entirely by members, and has run continuously from North 16th Street ever since. It isn't nightlife: it's a long-running queer recovery institution and a daily anchor for people staying sober in Phoenix.
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