Below are compiled lists of resources and recommendations that support the LGBTQIA+ community locally, nationally, and globally. These lists are an accessible and easy way to learn about and celebrate Pride Month.
The Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center focuses on developing and sustaining Gonzaga as a safe and welcoming community for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions by engaging in education, advocacy, outreach, and programming.
Location: 2nd floor of Hemmingson, room 213.
The center is open Monday- Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.
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Celebrate Spokane Pride!
Spokane Pride Parade and Festival 2024
When: June 8th, 2024 --> Parade starts at 12 pm
Where: Downtown Spokane
Pride History and Remembrance Project 
When: June 4th - June 7th, starting times vary
Where: Downtown Spokane, Spokane Pavillion Lobby
Friday Night Fever 
When: June 3rd, 2024, 7 pm - 10 pm
Where: Davenport Grand Hotel
Clean Up Party
When: June 9th, 2024 @ 11 am
Where: Downtown Spokane
Rainbow Run
When: June 15th, 2024, 9 am -12 pm
Where: 1335 W Summit Pkwy
Bonners Ferry Pride
When: June 21- 23rd, 2024, 9 am - 12 pm
Where: Pearl Theater in Bonners Ferry
USL Spokane Pride Night
When: June 23 @ 6 pm
Where: ONE Spokane Stadium
Perry District Pride 
When: June 29th, 2024, 12 pm - 5 pm
Where: South Perry District
Spokane's Best LGBTQ+ Nightlife Scene
When: All of June, 9 pm - 2 am
Where: Nyne Bar and Bistro
For more information on these events, please visit the Spokane Pride website or view the Pride Festival Program Guide.
LGBTQ+ History in Washington State has been unfolding for over 130 years. Click here to explore the rich LGBTQ+ story unfolding over time.
The Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project is an organization that researches and preserves the LGBT community in the Pacific Northwest. Since its founding in 1994, it has recognized and highlighted queer history in the Seattle Area and the Pacific Northwest. Click here to view their mission statement and to learn more about their agenda.
At the beginning of the 1900s, Gay bars flourished in the Seattle area as a common and protective space for the Queer community. Alongside being spaces where Queer people could voice and develop their agendas for gay rights, Seattle's gay bars served as a place where the Queer community could gather and have fun. Click here for a timeline of Seattle's rich queer history.
Click here to learn more about some of the LGBTQIA+ Pacific Northwesterners who changed the course of history through their activism, identity, and prominence. Below is a photograph of Charlie Brydon, a pioneering LGBTQIA+ activist and successful entrepreneur.
Charlie Brydon late 1970s
Spokane's LGBTQIA+ community and the organizations they've created have come a long way. Since its first Pride parade in 1992, Spokane has seen so much progress and a strong resurgence of hate. Although the local Queer community continues to receive hate, LGBTQIA+ individuals do not let anyone rain on their parade. Click here to read about the evolution of Spokane's Pride parade since the 1990s.
Although a formal Pride parade did not happen until 1992, members of Spokane's Queer community advocated for a voice long before that. Spokane's first mention of a pride celebration occurred in June 1986 when the Great Spokane Gay Leadership Coalition put on a week of events. The events included picnics, talks, and education booths that aimed to block a state initiative to ban gay people from local government jobs and opportunities while labeling them "deviants." Click here to learn more about Spokane's early LGBTQIA+ community.
PFLAG
PFLAG is the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBT+ people and those who love them.
Washington State LGBTQ Commission
The Washington State LGBTQ Commission works to improve the state’s interface with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, and intersex community, identify the needs of its members, and ensuring that there is an effective means of advocating for LGBTQ equity in all aspects of state government.
Spokane Pride
Spokane Pride is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt volunteer organization that promotes and empowers visible diversity for Spokane's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and citizens with identities above the binaries (LGBTQIA2S+).
As an organization, Spokane Pride is committed to creating welcoming, engaging, and accessible Pride experiences for everyone.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is a national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youths under 25. The organization works to support LGBTQ+ youth through intervention, education, and advocating for laws and policies that protect young Queer people.
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color is dedicated to transforming mental health services for queer and trans people of color. This organization manages a directory of practitioners, provides healing justice training, and leads local and regional meetups and webinars.
