Love Wins is a local volunteer-run food pantry that operates out of Friend’s Tavern on Roosevelt Avenue. This is the original location where it was started during the pandemic for those in the LGBTQIA+ community that are experiencing food insecurity. There was a gap in distribution centers where, “there were a lot of food pantries in the neighborhood helping people who needed it, but they were all run out of churches, and I know not every queer person feels comfortable going to a church and asking for help” (quoted from a volunteer). Everyone is welcome to serve and be served, with a specific focus on the needs of queer community members. The community has flourished into a family, and they now have expanded to multiple locations and an outreach program for queer migrants, as well as a partnership with Columbia for a mobile dental clinic.
Spreading love throughout the community with the gifts of food and care.
Campus: City College
Professor: Susanna Yurick
Location: 78-11 Roosevelt Ave, East Elmhurst, NY 11370
References: “Love Wins NYC.” Love Wins NYC, n.d. https://www.lovewinsnyc.org/.
