I’m sure you heard Pride Foundation has a brand-new Executive Director, and guess what; she’s headed to the Beaver State! Over the past four months since joining, Pride Foundation she has hit the ground running working on things like marriage equality in Washington and securing protections for LGBT Alaskans. There are so many great things
The groundbreaking film, “Austin Unbound,” chronicles years in the life of Austin, a trans and deaf man in Oregon. Now receiving international attention, the director, Eliza Greenwood -who received the first grant for the production from Pride Foundation in 2006 – shared with us her own journey through the production of this film. Directors Commentary
Get Lit! Programs – a non-profit within Eastern Washington University that seeks to engage our diverse Inland Northwest community in reading, writing and literacy – holds an annual literary festival every spring that draws over 10,000 people from the Inland Northwest and beyond. This year, Get Lit! is proud to present its headlining author,Keith Boykin!
I’ve known Idaho Senator Nicole LeFavour for more than a decade. She and her partner Carol have been neighbors of ours for most of the 15 years that my partner Jim and I have lived in Boise, and we have all worked side-by-side with her over the years as volunteers on issues in Idaho related
Janae Teal and Meredith Williams, Pride Foundation Scholars and student organizers of Gender-Neutral Bathroom Week, are starting a conversation locally to tell the campus and the broader community that no matter how someone expresses their gender, they deserve to pee in peace. Students at Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver have organized Gender-Neutral Bathroom Week, April
Earlier this month, the Washington State PFLAG Council organized several community members to make the following videos to send a strong message to voters in Washington State. They each feature an out LGBTQ person, and display the many people who support them and will vote in favor of marriage equality. You can view the videos
In just two short weeks, on April 3rd, Anchorage citizens will be voting on Proposition 5. Early voting has already begun and runs from March 19th-April 2nd at City Hall and Loussac Library. Visit the Muni page for voting hours. Pride Foundation is a proud supporter of the One Anchorage Initiative, the community effort
Volunteers are needed to help bring equality to Anchorage. The One Anchorage Initiative seeks to provide LGBTQ Alaskans the same legal protections that are already provided to other persons in Anchorage in employment, financial practices, housing, and restaurants, department stores and other businesses through Proposition 5 on the April 3, 2012 Municipality of Anchorage ballot.
Revive the Red Tent Productions proudly presents an original theatrical piece, “As Sure as God Made Little Green Apples.” The piece is a blend of text and movement reflecting the experience of growing up and coming out as a lesbian in Fairbanks, Alaska. Revive the Red Tent was one of Pride Foundation’s five Alaskan grantees
Eric Anderson remembers how being bullied led him to struggling in high school as he shifted between peer groups looking for support from fellow students, all the while getting little to no help from his teachers. The young Boise gay man – a past Pride Foundation scholarship applicant and chair of Boise LGBTQ youth group,