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Free meningitis vaccines to be given at The Long Beach LGBTQ Center

April 13, 2017
by Phillip Zonkel

The Long Beach LGBTQ Center will host two events for anyone who wants a free meningococcal meningitis vaccine.Photo: Anthony Bibian/Q Voice News.

LONG BEACH — The Long Beach LGBTQ Center will host two events for anyone who wants a free meningococcal meningitis vaccine.

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One will take place Monday and the second will take place May 13. Both vaccination days will be from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

No appointment is necessary.

The Center and Long Beach Health and Human Services Department are collaborators for the events.

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Phillip Zonkel

Award-winning journalist Phillip Zonkel spent 17 years at Long Beach's Press-Telegram, where he was the first reporter in the paper's history to have a beat covering the city's vibrant LGBTQ. He also created and ran the popular and innovative LGBTQ news blog, Out in the 562.

He won two awards and received a nomination for his reporting on the local LGBTQ community, including a two-part investigation that exposed anti-gay bullying of local high school students and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protections for LGBTQ students.

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