Herpes support groups in Austin, Texas
No active in-person herpes support group is currently meeting in Austinthat I've been able to verify. Below is the full history of what existed and when, with sources for every claim, plus the next steps I can offer right now.
Where to go from here
Most of the in-person network that existed twenty years ago has either gone dormant or quietly folded. Here's where to go from here.
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History: groups that used to meet in Austin
For every group below, I've documented founding dates, last-known activity, and the moment its presence disappeared from the public record. Sources cited per claim.
Austin HELP
Austin HELP was one of the three Texas ASHA HELP chapters at the 2008 network peak, running out of (512) 247-5551 with austinhelp.org as its early public face. By 2015 the chapter had migrated to a Yahoo Group, which was the digital home a lot of HELP chapters used until Yahoo Groups closed and deleted member data on December 15, 2020. The austinhelp.org domain still resolves in 2026 but returns an empty placeholder. If you're in central Texas and you find a current Austin-area listing on Meetup, that's the indie successor energy; otherwise the waitlist below is the active option I can offer.
Timeline
- 2008-07Listed in ASHA HELP roster with active website [source]
- 2015-02Listed in ASHA roster but pointing at Austin HELP Yahoo Group as primary contact [source]
- 2020-12-15Yahoo Groups shutdown deleted Austin HELP's Yahoo Group, severing the primary 2015-era contact channel [source]
- 2026-05-19austinhelp.org returns an empty page; no current presence found [source]
- 2020-12-15Yahoo Groups closed and deleted all member data. Austin HELP's 2015-era Yahoo Group home went dark in the same shutdown that broke San Antonio HELP, Vancouver HELP, and other Yahoo-Group-anchored chapters. [source]
