Pride Foundation

Kris Hermanns is Headed to the City of Roses and You’re Invited

Kris Hermanns is Coming to Oregon!

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...

Gay Idaho Senator Makes Run for Congress

Idaho State Senator Nicole LeFavour

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...

PFLAG WA State: “We are many, we are united…and we are voting in November”

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 here, and here.

According to Northwest PFLAG Regional Director Kathy Reim, “We are now depending on you to pass along...

Grantee Update: Bringing Lesbian Stories to the Stage in Fairbanks, Alaska

Revive the Red Tent

Revive the Red Tent Productions proudly presents an original theatrical piece, “As Sure as God Made Little Green Apples.” The...

Push Continues for Anti-Bullying Bill in Idaho

Eric Anderson in Boise

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...

Workshop on welcoming in Bitterroot, MT

A family affair: (clockwise from top left) Tammy, Robert, Kathy and Rachel

How do you build community in a way that is inclusive and welcoming? An upcoming workshop in Bitterroot Valley brings together the expertise of regional and national PFLAG representative to share their experience and to help other groups avoid some of the pitfalls of community organizing.

Kathy Reim, a Pride Foundation board member and regional PFLAG director for the Pacific Northwest...

Documenting inequality in Anchorage

The Alaska LGBT Community Survey project needs your help documenting inequality in Anchorage

The Alaska LGBT Community Survey is a project of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans community of Alaska (plus our friends & allies) to conduct a statewide survey of our community. We’ll also use it to solicit case histories to document recent experiences of discrimination, harassment, and violence due to sexual orientation and gender identity bias.

In August 2009, Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan vetoed an ordinance to amend the city’s nondiscrimination law to include sexual orientation and gender identity. He argued that there was no quantifiable evidence to prove that LGBTQ...

Re-thinking LGBTQ domestic violence in Alaska

Did you know that domestic violence happens in same-sex relationships at about the same rate as in straight relationships?

Have you ever considered how homophobia and the lack of legal protection from discrimination might discourage an LGBTQ victim of domestic violence from getting help for fear of being “outed” or did you know that the most common type of male-to-male rape is the rape of a man who is perceived to be gay by a heterosexual man?

These and other facts are highlighted in the curriculum, “Think/Re-Think: Domestic Violence in Bi, Trans, Lesbian...

Coffee talk with Eugene LGBTQ leaders

I have to admit that part of what attracted me to this job at Pride Foundation was the travel I’d get to do around my beloved state of Oregon. I knew I’d get to have really great conversations with super-interesting, diverse, smart, community-minded people who are making great things happen. I love a good road trip!

So my first official Pride Foundation road trip took me to Eugene. In two days I experienced more of Eugene than I had in my entire life. First stop, Eugene Coffee Company, where owners Sue and Adelka (great supporters of progressive causes) made me feel like an old friend within 5 minutes of my arrival.

Over delicious coffee and a breakfast cookie (I’m an adult, I can have cookies for breakfast if I want),...

U of Alaska votes for anti-discrimination policy

University of Alaska Anchorage students Amada Arredondo and Alyse Mondok signed up to testify before the university's Board of Regents.

On February 18, the University of Alaska Board of Regents voted to include “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination policy by a vote of 8-2 – a critical step forward for LGBTQ rights in Alaska.

“It’s long overdue,” said Amada...