Author: Kai Aprill-Tomlin

As the new year kicks into full gear, we’re reflecting with gratitude on all the amazing milestones accomplished in 2023 and are reminded that our collective work is needed now more than ever. Throughout the Northwest and beyond, LGBTQ+ communities continue to face opposition and attacks on their rights.   Currently, there are more than 10

Growing up in the Bay Area in California, I was first introduced to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in 1982, and like so many stories my introduction started with a loss.  Our family friend, Lorenz. At the time we didn’t have the words and diversity of representation to understand that Lorenz was a trans identifying

This month the Pride Foundation hosted its first Scholarship Celebration since 2019. Both community and scholars came together to share an evening of connection and community. For our volunteer reviewers, it was an opportunity to meet the scholars they’d worked so hard to select. For our scholars, it was a time to honor the hard

Happy National Coming Out Day and kick off to Pride Foundation Scholarship season! We’ve been watching the leaves change color and recovering from our first colds of the school season, and that means it is finally time—our 2024 scholarship application is now open. Our scholarships fund LGBTQ+ students who are leaders—in their own lives, in

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month!    We are celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month by announcing our inaugural TRANSform Culture Fellowship cohort! This fellowship project is part of our Community Advocacy, Research, and Education (CARE) Department and is the product of three generations of Departmental leadership by and for Transgender+ people.     The goal of our CARE Department is

I hope beautiful summer days have brought you joy and comfort through an incredibly challenging year for our communities. We are in the midst of fighting back against so many pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that passed this past cycle while we prepare as a community for all 2024 might bring. I am finding so much

We at Pride Foundation are so grateful that we completed yet another amazing application cycle for our community of scholars! We are now happy to announce that we are awarding 113 applicants with 154 awards totaling a landmark amount of $759,600!   Our scholars come from and are going into a vast array of fields, using

By New Year’s Day 2023, dozens of anti-LGBTQ+, and especially anti-Trans, legislative bills had already been drafted for introduction across the country. In our region, from Southern Oregon to Northern Alaska, classrooms, clinics, court rooms, and school boards continued to erupt into battles bleeding onto the legislative floor, no less than in businesses and individual

On the eve of Trans Day of Remembrance and Trans Day of Resilience, our communities gather in the candlelight cast by our kindred who have become ancestors too soon. 2021 was the deadliest record year on record for trans and gender diverse people, with more than 50 confirmed murders. In 2022, we have “already seen at least 32 transgender