Leading up to Seattle’s PrideFest weekend, come celebrate the LGBTQ community at the Seattle Sounders FC’s Pride Foundation night on June 20. The Sounders FC are taking on the Sporting Kansas City at 7:00PM at CenturyLink Field. Last fall’s Pride Foundation Night was a great success. It was particularly inspiring to watch the “It Get’s
Pride Foundation has an immediate opening for a full-time Women’s Outreach Specialist. We are looking for an energetic and self-motivated individual to join our existing team of staff and volunteers focused on educating the public about marriage equality in Washington State. This position will involve creating a network of women’s, parents’ and educational organizations across
I was amazed and inspired by our latest group of scholars this past Saturday at our Scholarship Celebration Breakfast. Hearing their stories of overcoming challenges and working hard to achieve their goals made me realize how much I love this work. I had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with many of our new 2012 Pride
With thanks to our supporters, over the last 27 years, Pride Foundation has become the community foundation we are today—bringing together people, ideas, and resources to advance equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. As spring showers fall, bringing renewed vitality to the Northwest, we wanted you to be among the first
On May 19, a new batch of scholars officially became a part of Pride Foundation’s family of donors, volunteers, grantees, and scholars at the 2012 Scholarship Celebration Breakfast which took place at the Red Lion Hotel in downtown Seattle. This year, Pride Foundation will give out the most it has ever awarded in scholarships to
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu Cliff Cook is a local Bend resident and recent addition to the Pride Foundation’s monthly giving program. He is also a local community leader who has created the Stars and Rainbows Group. He started his group as
Montana is home to seven Indian reservations and tribal colleges, but until recently no gay-straight alliances existed on campus. Thanks to the hard work of Rosalinda de la Luna-Long and her students, Salish Kootenai College (SKC) on the Flathead Reservation now boasts the first ever Gay-Straight Alliance at a tribal college: Spirit of Many Colors.
When I first met Tonei Glavinic in 2008 he was a senior at Stellar Secondary High School in Anchorage. As the youth representative on the board of Identity, president of his high school GSA, an ACLU of Alaska Youth Activist Scholar, and member of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s National Advisory Council, Tonei
Stills from the Film Pride Foundation is proud to partner with Q-Doc, the only festival in the United States, and only the second in the world, devoted exclusively to Queer Documentaries. For seven years Q-Doc has worked closely and in connection with our friends over at the Q-Center to put on this informative festival. With
Pride Foundation volunteers (and board members) Erin Lennon and Seth Kirby take a look at the recent EEOC ruling and how it will impact our community and the work of the Shareholder Advocacy Committee. With the knowledge that 90 percent of transgender individuals have experienced harassment or mistreatment on the job or took actions to avoid