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Pride Month 2024: Resources and Recommendations

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is celebrated in June every year to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan.

Resources and Recommendations

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. 

 

Celebrating Pride: LGBTQ+ Open Source Projects We Love

Support Gonzaga's LGBTQIA+ Community

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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Local Pride and LGBTQIA+ Organizations

Celebrate Spokane Pride

Spokane Pride Parade and Festival 2024 

When: June 8th, 2024 --> Parade starts at 12 pm 

Where: Downtown Spokane 

Parade Map & Route

 

Pride History and Remembrance Project Pride History and Remembrance Project

When: June 4th - June 7th, starting times vary 

Where: Downtown Spokane, Spokane Pavillion Lobby 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday Night Fever Friday Night Fever - Downtown Spokane Partnership

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 Spokane Pride |  https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/a08bdb40-37ac-4b7b-9d63-5aba68344eef |  Instagram

When: June 15th, 2024, 9 am -12 pm

Where: 1335 W Summit Pkwy 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonners Ferry PrideBonners Ferry's first Pride event set for June | Bonners Ferry Herald

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 Pride in Perry 2024

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. 

Local LGBTQ+ History and Accomplishments

LGBTQ+ History in Washington State has been unfolding for over 130 years. Click here to explore the rich LGBTQ+ story unfolding over time.

1978: Seattle Gay Pride Week march and rally opposes Initiative 13 | The  Seattle Times 


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. 

Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project -- © 2002 NWLGHMP


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. 

Shelly's Leg - Wikipedia


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. 

Thousands fill downtown Spokane for Pride festivities | The Spokesman-Review


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.

 Marchers move past the corner of Bernard and Main during Sunday afternoon's gay pride demonstration. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

LGBTQ+ Organizations

PFLAG

PFLAG is the nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBT+ people and those who love them.

  • PFLAG focuses on five values: Accountability, Bravery, Community and Collaboration, Inclusivity and Belonging, and Growth. 


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.

Washington State LGBTQ Commission


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.