Massey, Arlisha Turner, Barbara Indovino, Kevin

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Arlisha Massey and Barbara Turner are interviewed by Kevin Indovino. Turner was a manager of programming, prevention, and services for the MOCHA Center of Rochester; Massey worked for outreach in MOCHA. Before becoming involved in MOCHA, Massey worked for AIDS Rochester. They discuss the challenges faced by people of color who are part of the LGBT community and the religious barriers that can impact their use of LGBT resources. Massey describes the outreach that he conducted on Monroe Avenue for AIDS education. He also describes Brothers United, which was a group created for gay men by Charles Stevens and Gary English (who later formed MOCHA). Gary was working for Community Health Network and thought people of color needed better treatment, with a different social-psychological approach. Turner and Massey speak to the challenges that MOCHA faced as a new organization and the current barriers that the African American community faces.Video Interview, Arlisha Massey and Barbara Turner, April 15, 2013, Rochester, New York Voices of LGBT History Project, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester https://digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu/islandora/object/ur:12112

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