A cherished pillar of Washington, D.C.’s LGBTQ community, the nonprofit Whitman-Walker Health (WWH) has grown significantly since its establishment in 1978 as a free STD clinic for gay men. Now WWH offers a broad range of LGBTQ health care and social services at several locations throughout the city and benefits almost 16,000 people annually. In 2012, as part of a capital effort to better serve a client base that had doubled over the previous six years, WWH began a search for a space that could house comprehensive care services. In 2013 it leased a planned six-story, 42,000-square-foot building just two blocks south of the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center—WWH’s primary location—in the Dupont-Logan neighborhoods that have been the heart of D.C. gay life for decades. The nonprofit turned to the D.C. office of Perkins+Will (P+W) to bring its vision to life.
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