Boulder County AIDS Project

Wow, only 1 review? I worked with BCAP previously on a benefit and they’re a great group of people. BCAP provides education/​outreach and social services for people at risk and living with HIV/​AIDS. If you have some free time on your hands BCAP has a wide range of volunteer opportunities, both short and long-​term. Having spent 3 years doing volunteer HIV testing, outreach and needle exchange in the Bay Area, I can say it was a rewarding experience and I encourage almost anyone to participate.

I really do like BCAP! I became familiar with them when they had the gay men’s social group Mpower. At Mpower we went to the ‘BCAP’ house and watched Queer As Folk once a week. I have to say at that time I was going to many gay mens groups to meet people in the hopes of making friends since I just moved to the Denver metro area. Mpower was the least pretentious and brooding of the groups that I was attending at the time. Sometimes I comically compared myself to Edward Norton from Fight Club I went to so many ‘social’ groups at the time. I use social loosely here because some of these groups I went to often were therapy groups but facilitators and leaders of these groups wanted to shy away from that label. This was not the case at Mpower, it was strictly set up as a social setting. I have to say I met the most friends from this group that became lasting out of all of the other groups I went to. BCAP eventually did away with Mpower and restructured it for youth. Perhaps because they are a greater demographic for contracting HIV. I know BCAP does great services for the Boulder area and it seems like they want the gay men that live in the area to come together and be a community and become familiar with each other. Regardless of their HIV status. To me that is a great idea!