TABLE 2.

Types of Community Involvement as Reported by Latino Gay Men in Chicago^a

Category	Description	Examples
General office help	Sporadic, short–term community participation and small tasks	Office help, providing material or non-material help in events (e.g., AIDS Walk and parades)
Board membership	Serving in advisory groups such as planning boards and councils	Attending board meetings and planning groups
Fund-raising	Assisting with events oriented toward generating funds for a cause or community–based organization	Raising money at bars to buy medicine for persons with AIDS (PWAs)
Organizing events	Organizing local or national events related to HIV/AIDS, gay/lesbian bisexual/transgender Latinos	Participation working with The National latina/o lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender Organization
Creating and Organizing groups	Community mobilization, leadership, and group facilitation activities	Organizing a support group for PWAs
Social support	Any type of assistance to people with AIDS. It includes informal helping behavior	Assisting PWAs in food delivery and hospital visits
Information activities	Disseminating health information at public events and with community or ganizations	Giving public school presentations on HIV/AIDS and working on hotlines
Outreach	Combines three activities: information, education, and distribution of condoms	Distributing flyers and condom packets in bathhouses while doing peer education

^aThese activities are not mutually exclusive. Participants reported one or more activity.