1606 17th St NW - 1st Whitman Walker Clinic

From 1978 to January 1980, this was the first home of Whitman-Walker Clinic, a gay community health center formed by the merger of the Gay Men"s VD Clinic, the Gay Men's Counsel on Drinking and the Gay Men's Counseling Collective. The Gay Women's Health Center joined in November 1978. A funding crisis affecting the VD clinic that same year prompted the creation of Brother Help Thyself to raise funds to support the health center.

Whitman-Walker health will be opening new offices at 14th and R on the Site of the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center. The Goethe-Institut will be moving to the third floor of this same building in October and we are excited for the collaboration with Whitman-Walker on this exhibit as well as in the future.