“There are no spectators this year. It’s a movement: everybody’s a participant from the beginning of the week to the end of the week,” said Drew Phoenix, Co-Chair of Identity Inc., and one of the four Pride Planning Committee chairs. The other chairs include: Phyllis Rhodes, Anne Marie Moylan, and Gayle Schuh. This year’s celebration
This June is shaping up to be the most pride-filled and prideful month in Montana history with the first-ever Butte-hosted Pride Celebration slated for June 14-16 and Interchange: A Festival of Color coming to Bozeman June 28-30. Pride Foundation awarded grants to support both events. Known as the “richest hill on earth,” Butte, epitomizes the
Eugene Leadership Action Team Member, Leslie Prieto shares why she is passionate about the movement for full equality, and why she is involved with Pride Foundation. When did you first get involved with Pride Foundation? I first got involved with Pride Foundation in the winter of 2010, when speaking with Karen Peterson and Amy White
Phoenix Two Spirit is a Pride Foundation Scholarship fund creator. In honor of the 20th anniversary of Pride Foundation’s Scholarship Program, Phoenix shares with us the story of the creation of this special fund. Phoenix Two Spirit is a long-time active member of the LGBTQ community in Seattle and also deeply involved in the native
Pride Foundation is pleased to welcome Josh Hemsath as the new Regional Development Organizer for Alaska! For the past two years, Josh has served Planned Parenthood of Montana as Outreach Educator in the Billings, Montana area, facilitating support groups for teen mothers, and strengthening leadership skills at local high school GSAs. Drawn to return to
I just hit “send” on the best email of the year: notifying students that they have been awarded a 2013 Pride Foundation scholarship. In this moment, I am struck by how fortunate we are to be able to invest in each of the scholar’s lives and their sense of hope for the world. Through the
Being trans can be a challenge anywhere, but it’s especially tough in Montana, as there are no statewide nondiscrimination protections for gender identity, including at Montana State University. A coalition of student organizations is working to change this, including TransMSU (TMSU) a support group for transgender MSU students. Founded by graduate student Cassidy Medicine Horse,
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter F. Drucker (American Educator and Writer) As I prepare to go on sabbatical later this month, I wanted to share with you some reflections that have kept me motivated and excited to work with Pride Foundation throughout
One thing all Pride Foundation scholarship committee volunteers can agree on is how truly moved and inspired they are by the stories they read in the applications and the people they have the privilege of talking to during the interviews—future leaders of the LGBTQ community who will contribute to our collective work to create equality
The students from La Grande High School, along with gay-straight alliance (GSA) advisor Brita Scott and local PFLAG chair Ryan Minor, loaded into their bus after school on a Wednesday in late April and made the long trek from eastern Oregon to the world headquarters of Nike in Beaverton so that they could take part