 The center in 2019 began the establishment of a senior center in the Third Ward.Michael Ennis of the "Texas Monthly" stated in 1980 that within Texas, "gay political inroads" were "most visible" in Houston.In the October 1979 "Village Voice" Richard Goldstein wrote that due to the perceived threat from the "Christian right" in the area, gay people in Houston "take politics more seriously" than those in New York City.