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By Joelle L. Quartini
Friday, October 03, 2008
Nearly 200 riders and hundreds of volunteers peddled from Gettysburg, Pa., to Manhattan in the fourth-annual Braking the Cycle AIDS Ride, raising a record $400,000 to benefit the LGBT Community Center of New York City.
Riders began the three-day, 275-mile trek Friday, Sept. 26 in Gettysburg, winded through Pennsylvania Dutch country, rolling hills and rural roads before passing the New York skyline and ending Sunday, Sept. 29, at The LGBT Center in the West Village.
The ride has raised more than $1 million in its first three years to benefit the Center’s HIV/AIDS programs, where thousands are serviced each year with support groups, counseling, prevention and education.
More than 1,000 teens come to the Center annually for services and training in HIV prevention.
The $400,000 raised this year will go toward distributing thousands of safer-sex kits, sending at-risk youth to HIV prevention and education summer camp and paying for a year’s worth of counseling for newly diagnosed people living with HIV.
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