New International Film Festival Comes to Tucson Check out the Out in the Desert Commercial! The Southwest LGBT Film Society is announcing the coming of its 1st Annual “Out in the Desert”, Tucson’s International LGBT Film Festival. The Festival, scheduled for February 17-19, and February 24-26, 2012 at the Screening Room, is a celebration of [...]

Jim Leos asks you to join him in supporting Wingspan:   I was recently asked why I love living in Tucson. There are many potential answers to that question, but one of them certainly is that we have Wingspan, southern Arizona’s LGBT Community Center. I have a long relationship with Wingspan and speak from personal [...]

Wingspan in Tucson Lifestyle Magazine

Have you gotten a chance to check out the interview for Tucson Lifestyle Magazine with Wingspan’s own Director of Programs, Oscar Jimenez? Read the article below (article by Wendy Sweet, photography by Kris Hanning) ““WE STRIVE TO BE A SAFE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME AND BE THEMSELVES,” says Oscar Jimenez, director of programs at [...]

Did you know that the Arizona State Tax Credit Program allows a single person to donate $200 or a married couple to donate $400 to Wingspan and get it completely refunded on your 2011 tax return? In addition, your contribution will be eligible for a Tax Deduction on your Federal tax return. Read our frequently [...]

The big Bear weekend (La Fiesta de Los Osos) is here and the Bears of the Old Pueblo are putting together a great dance; FUR REAL on Saturday, January 14, that’s a fund-raiser for Wingspan. It’s preceded at 9pm by our (in)famous and somewhat bawdy ‘Fiesta Bear Contest’ which is a total parody on the [...]

But we can’t do it without you… Wingspan’s Anti-Violence Programs cordially invites you to help celebrate 15 years of serving LGBTQ survivors of violence.  From its beginnings, as a crisis phone that served as a resource to LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence when there were no other resources, to now, a 24 hour line/ walk [...]