MLK Day is an opportunity to reflect on the legacy of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and how we can be inspired to act in the present moment against injustice. Several local organizations are hosting events, protests and volunteer opportunities to commemorate the day:

CAP & the Aging Well Program are proud to partner with OMSI to exhibit 12 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt from January 5 - February 19.

Tackling hunger is a critical step in helping families making tough choices in Oregon & SW Washington. Join us and Whole Foods in the fight against hunger by rounding up at the register during the Give Local campaign at your Whole Foods Market store…

This December, we are proud to honor the beginning of the 40th year of Cascade AIDS Project! Grassroots organizers and LGBTQ+ community members created CAP in 1983 to provide crucial community services in the face of the HIV & AIDS epidemic. Over the 4 decades that followed, our services expanded to include educational outreach, legal advocacy, and primary health care for residents in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is honored annually on November 20th to memorialize the trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people who were murdered in the previous year. TDOR also centers those who are most affected by violence against the trans community, including Black trans women and trans sex workers.

October 26th marks Intersex Awareness Day, which is observed annually around the world to highlight the experiences and human rights issues of intersex people.

Upwards of 1,500 people took to the streets in SE Portland in support of all those living with and affected by HIV at AIDS Walk Northwest 2023. Read on to see official event photos, local news coverage and more in this re-CAP!

The Oregon Legislature has passed first-in-the-nation legislation to clear barriers to emergency HIV prevention drugs. House Bill 2574, which Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) helped write, tackles widespread problems with access to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), a combination of drugs taken after an HIV exposure to stop infection. PEP has to be taken within 72 hours to be effective.

We are more than excited to announce that, after a thoughtful, comprehensive, nationwide search, we have hired longtime nonprofit leader Paul Lumley to be the new CEO of CAP.  

Each year, June 19th, or Juneteenth, is commemorated as the anniversary of the day in 1865 when enslaved communities in Galveston, Texas learned that the Civil War had ended and that they were free from slavery. Read on for local events in the Portland area to commemorate Juneteenth!

In the aftermath of the deadly shooting at the Pulse Nightclub on July 12th, 2016, then US House Representative Ron DeStantis visited the memorial of those 49 people who lost their lives to the senseless gun violence of a disgruntled security guard…

The uprising at Stonewall Inn marked a turning point in the history of LGBTQ communities, a demonstration of our fight for our basic human rights and dignity. Heroes like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Storm DeLarverie remind us of a sometimes painful but simple truth: we all have the power to create change and we must choose to use it.

The health and wellbeing of our patients and clients is our first priority and why our team works so hard. In accordance with federal and state regulations and CDC recommendations, Cascade AIDS Project no longer requires universal masking.

Prism Health needs your help to continue to provide LGBTQ+ affirming healthcare!

Jonathan Frochtzwajg, an advocate with Cascade AIDS Project, known as CAP, who testified in support of the Oregon legislation, said patients “are really just caught in the crossfire between insurance and Big Pharma.”

CAP, Our House, & Prism Health have decided to suspend use of our Twitter accounts immediately due to Twitter quietly removing its longstanding policy aimed at protecting transgender folks from targeted misgendering and deadnaming, both of which are considered as forms of hate speech. It is our belief that Social media companies must commit to fostering safe environments for LGBTQIA+ folks rather than eliminating policies which protect them.

May 19th marks National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2022, a day dedicated to reducing HIV stigma in Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities and promote prevention, testing and treatment.

May 19th is Hepatitis Testing Day! Millions of people living in the US have chronic viral hepatitis—but most of them don’t know they have it. That’s why Hepatitis Testing Day seeks to encourage folks to learn their status and help raise awareness of hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

“We have a front-row seat to all the barriers ... And those run the gamut from providers not familiar with PEP, to patients not being able to fill prescriptions because many pharmacies don’t stock the medication, to people not being able to afford the copay when they get to the pharmacy counter.”