MISSION
The QSpot Jersey Shore LGBT Community Center fosters the health, well being and pride of individuals, groups and families within New Jersey’s LGBT community by providing resources, referrals, public education, outreach services and general support to empower them to live their lives with dignity and freedom. HISTORY
The QSpot Jersey Shore Community Center has been organized as a nonprofi
t corporation under the laws of the State of New Jersey since July 1, 2005. Joe D’Andrea, a local Asbury Park LGBT property owner along with others, established the organization with the goal of opening an LGBT community center where services for residents could be provided. Tragically, within six months of founding the organization, D’Andrea suddenly died. Since then, the Board of Trustees has stayed true to D’Andrea’s vision, using an all-volunteer, grass roots, community-based model, QSpot began offering programming to support the LGBT community through a series of outreach initiatives. These initiatives have grown into the services the agency offers today.
