To honor #BlackHistoryMonth, we are lifting up stories of LGBTQ+ Black-led organizations making history now in the Northwest. Throughout February, we’ll be sharing stories on our Facebook and Twitter featuring Black LGBTQ+ leaders and organizations making history in the Northwest through their incredible work serving Black LGBTQ+ communities locally. #GranteeSpotlight: Based in Seattle-Tacoma, Lavender Rights
Perhaps like you, I have been spending my days and nights focused on the current moment—responding, reacting, holding, breathing all the horrors we are witness to. But I am fighting the tendency to direct my attention only on the trees in front of me and instead continually bring the forest into focus too. When I
This is not our community’s first health crisis. What we learned during the AIDS crisis—and have proven time and time again ever since—is that when our communities need us, we show up to support one another even when no one else will. This value and practice is at the heart of Pride Foundation’s Crisis
Growing up in rural Yakima Valley in Central Washington, Kris Gonzalez remembers her father and his family working in fields cutting turnips, asparagus, grapes, and the toll this labor took on them. “My grandparents were immigrants from Mexico who faced a lot of hardships. Growing up, there were a lot of doors that were not
When Erica Brubaker lived in Colorado, she canvassed door-to-door to fight for the issues and causes she cared about most. Now, as the owner of Wild Joe’s Coffee Spot in Bozeman, Montana, she takes a different tactic. “I get to create change right in my business,” Erica explains. “It’s a new and productive way I
“In Samoa, oral tradition and storytelling is the fabric of our culture. Before colonization, we passed down our history through song, oration, and acknowledgements from generation to generation,” explains Manumalo Ala’ilima, co-chair of United Territories of Paci c Islanders Alliance Portland (UTOPIA PDX), an all-volunteer organization that provides sacred spaces for Queer and Trans Paci
There’s a belief that in many Latinx immigrant communities, our families won’t accept us as LGBTQ+. But during my coming out experience, I have never felt more connected to my immigrant community. In 2012, I was at an immigration solidarity march where I was going to share my story about being undocumented. I remember thinking: