“The recovery center has been a staple in my recovery. It’s been a safe space. It’s been a place to meet like-minded people. It sort of brings together, the sober community and the LGBT community in a way naturally, without force. I think that is really special. It’s a place where people are very happy, joyous, and free, but also safe to be vulnerable. Yeah, I think it’s a very important place. I remember I was terrified the first time I came here because I used to sleep in that park when I was homeless, and I slept on the steps of the Log Cabin, so when I first came back, it was scary. I was like, I don’t know who knows me, who sees me. It was powerful to come back housed and sober, and to be able to talk about that, and to be able to talk about how it was strange to be here, and it’s interesting that all my time living on the streets, literally around the corner in the park, I didn’t know what this was, I didn’t know what this building was. So for it to become such a pivotal part of living .”

– Zane Younger