It's been hard for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the Bronx to find the resources they need since the borough's only LGBT center closed three years ago. But as NY1 Bronx reporter Erin Clarke found out, a health organization is now helping fill that void and leading the way in efforts to make a new Pride Center a reality.

Precious Ramirez remembers the Bronx Pride Center that closed in 2012 as a place where she could be herself.

"When that center closed, I felt a little, I felt lost," she said.

But now, Ramirez and others members of the Bronx LGBT community have found a place that's filling the void.

BOOM!Health, an organization created in 2013 when Bronx AIDS Services and CitiWide Harm Reduction merged, has moved into the former Brook House Furniture Store building on Third Avenue.

Although some of the building's five floors are still under construction, it's open for business, providing sex education and disease prevention, legal services, a youth drop-in and more for the LGBT community.

"A safe haven for our community," said health educator Khawon Linton. "There's not a lot of places in the Bronx where we could just come be ourselves."

"We're also partnering with Callen-Lorde Community Health center to build a federally qualified health center on the first floor, with a pharmacy, that will be focused for LGBT folks but will be open to everybody," said John Hellman, Advocacy and Communications Director at BOOM!Health.

The services are welcomed, but BOOM!Health doesn't replace an LGBT Center.The Bronx still is the only borough without one.

Now, BOOM!Health's expansion is lighting a fire under people to change that.

One place being considered for the center is the old Fordham Library. It has ample space and it's close to public transportation.

"I'm negotiating with the mayor's office about the best uses for the site. There would be more than one use, so it could be an LGBT center co-located with something else," said Democratic Councilman Ritchie Torres.

Last year, Torres helped start LGBT senior centers in every borough, and now, he's partnering with BOOM!Health for a visioning project to find out what the community wants from an LGBT center.

"This is part of a larger effort to build an LGBT infrastructure in the Bronx," Torres said.

"We really want to get people's input to see what they would like out of a center so that we can start focusing on the other needs that people have like economic and educational," Hellman said.

For more information and to give input, visit the survey page at boomhealth.org/pridecenter.