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,
On March 14th in Anchorage and March 15th in Juneau, the Alliance for Reproductive Justice (ARJ) invites you to join Jamee Greer, organizer and lobbyist for the Montana Human Rights Network, and Montana State Senator Christine Kauffman for a discussion on how to win on equal rights. Greer and Kauffman are the featured keynote speakers
This year Pride Foundation was proud to sponsor Spokane AID Network’s (SAN) 14th Annual Oscar Night Gala that took place on February 26th at Northern Quest Resort and Casino. Guests were treated to an elegant plated dinner and had the opportunity to bid on live and silent auction items while enjoying the live telecast of
The Youth Suicide Prevention Program’s OUTLoud Project Presents… Safe and Accepted: LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention Come join the OUTLoud Project March 8 from 4-7 pmfor a 3-hour event focused on increasing support for LGBTQ youth in your home, school, or organization thereby reducing their risk for suicide, self harm, and depression. The first,
It’s been over 20 years since I left my home town of Billings, Montana. At that time I was still in the “closet” to my friends and family. I didn’t know any other gay people nor did I have any gay role models. After high school I heard rumors about a gay bar. This place
The YMCA Oasis Teen Shelter, a current Pride Foundation grantee, is a shelter for runaway and homeless youth ages 13-17. The Shelter has been in existence since 1997 (formerly known as Skagit Homeless Youth) and is a program of the Skagit Valley Family YMCA. It functions as the only shelter for runaway and homeless youth
Imagine being born into a community where you thought you were like everyone else and then, upon realizing that you were different, doing everything you possibly could to deny and distance yourself from it. Imagine coming of age in a community in which there seemed to be no adult role models who shared your experience
Creating an audio archive of the Idaho LGBTQ community for future generations is one of the primary goals behind an oral history collection project at Boise State University featuring interviews with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer residents. The project is the brainchild of Riley Caldwell-O’Keefe, a professor in the Boise State University Theatre Arts