Community, Advocacy, Research, and Education Across the Northwest

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

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3 Cool Things this April

2023 has already held so much for LGBTQ+ communities in the Northwest and beyond. While much of what has transpired has been devastating, I am continually bolstered by how beautifully fierce our community continues to be in the face of it all.   As we continue to take stock of all that’s happening, I invite you

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What We Accomplished Together.

  Friends of Pride Foundation,    At Pride Foundation, we are already looking to 2023 and anticipating a big year ahead where the work that we do will be as important as ever. As we look to next year, we wanted to first pause and reflect on 2022 and all that we accomplished together.    We

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Our Scholarship Application is Now Open!

Happy National Coming Out Day and opening day of Pride Foundation Scholarship season! We’ve been watching the leaves change color and recovering from our first colds of the school season, which means it is finally time—our 2023 scholarship application is now open. Our scholarships fund LGBTQ+ students who are leaders—in their own lives, in their families,

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How we’re commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022

This coming Monday, we will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a day focused on honoring the legacies, histories, and cultures of Native American and Indigenous communities. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we recommit to doing more—every day throughout the year—to lift up the history, brilliance, and strength of Native Americans since time immemorial, and to showing gratitude

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August Pride Insider: Community Care + Karaoke + Trans Bill of Rights

As these August mornings cool down, and we find ourselves approaching fall, I’m having some deja vu. So many of my emails to you over the past two years have begun with “we’re all holding a lot right now.”  Between Monkeypox’s (MPV) growing impact on our communities, the continued effects of the pandemic, economic instability,

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Team Care: 4-Day Workweeks and Beyond

In March of 2020, we were, without fully grasping it yet, on the precipice of massive changes in our day-to-day lives. Like so many, I remember asking our Seattle-based staff not to come into the office one day, thinking it would only be for a couple of weeks. In that moment, we could have approached

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SCOTUS Will Not Define Us

I was planning to write to you today expressing my overwhelming gratitude for the love, care, and outpouring of support I witnessed at our Tend hybrid event last night. Instead, my hands are shaking with rage and horror as I write this very different blogpost. One about today’s massive step back in the fight for

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