PRIDE Month is American History - It's More Than a Month!

In celebrating PRIDE Month throughout June we want to share some online resources, highlight local and national organizations serving the LGBTQ+ community, and include some books we’d recommend for children and young adults looking to learn more about PRIDE and the LGBTQ+ community:

• A guide to learning how to use the correct pronouns: GLSEN_PronounsResource_2020_Final.pdf
• How to be a cisgender, straight ally at PRIDE: 10 Ways for Straight, Cisgender People to Be Better Allies at Pride
• PrideNW’s digital PRIDE event calendar
• Black & Beyond the Binary Collective
• The Q Center
• Brave Space
• Our House: HIV Care Services
• Darcelle (50 years of nightly drag!)
• Two award winning hotlines that support LGBTQ+ folks nationally: Trans Lifeline and The Trevor Project — Saving Young LGBTQ Lives

Books:

• Stonewall: A Building, an Uprising, a Revolution by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Jamey Christoph
• When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Built a Community by Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Christopher Lyles
• Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Lets Talk About Love by Claire Kann

“We can make a difference by standing strong and being united with the people who believe in us, who advocate for us, who support and love us for who we are.” – Miss Major Griffin-Gracy