PFLAG is the nation's foremost family-based organization committed to the civil rights of gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender persons.
PFLAG-Olympia welcomes all allies - straight and GLBTQ.
Our Mission -- PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through:Support to cope with an adverse society,
Education to enlighten an ill-informed public, and
Advocacy to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
PFLAG provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
Our Vision - We celebrate diversity and envision a society that embraces everyone, including those of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Only with respect, dignity and equality for all will we reach our full potential as human beings, individually and collectively. PFLAG welcomes the participation and support of all who share in, and hope to realize this vision.
We are a community of and welcome LGBTIQQTSA* persons of all ages. LGBTIQQTSA* = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, two spirit, and ally.
PFLAG Washington State Council endorse the Washington United for Marriage campaign - a diverse, statewide coalition and campaign to Win Freedom to Marry in Washington State in 2012.Upcoming programs
Sunday, June 10
Capital City Pride - We will be at the Pride celebration at Sylvester Park both days, Saturday and Sunday. Please stop by our booth. There will be no regular meeting in June.Join us for
Capital City Pride
Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10
Sylvester Park
Downtown Olympia
PFLAG-Olympia will have a booth in the park both days. Our regular meeting will not be held that weekend, so join us at Pride.
Click here for more information.
PFLAG-Olympia's Usual Meeting Format:
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Introductions, announcements, support and snacks
3:00-4:00 p.m. - ProgramNote: The meeting format may change depending on programs or activities. We sometimes breakout into seprate support groups during the first hour.
August is our annual picnic at a local park from 1-4 p.m. On those years (such as this year) when Capital City Pride falls on the same weekend as our regularly scheduled meetings we will not have our regular second Sunday meeting.
Here is a map to the church where we meet:
Need more information?
Read:
What to expect at our PFLAG meetings
and
Frequently Asked Questions about PFLAG-Olympia Meetings.
Mailing Address: PFLAG Olympia
PO Box 12732
Olympia, WA 98508-2732Email: Contact us contactus@pflag-olympia.org General information info@pflag-olympia.org Chapter president president@pflag-olympia.org Chapter treasurer treasurer@pflag-olympia.org Website webmaster@pflag-olympia.org Phone:
Do you need to talk to someone
from PFLAG-Olympia on the phone?
See this page for numbers.Newsletter newsletter@pflag-olympia.org Join PFLAG! You don't have to be a member to attend our meetings and special events, but we depend on membership funds as a mainstay of the income we need to do PFLAG-Olympia. Please join here at the local chapter here. We send part of your money to the national PFLAG office in Washington DC every year - so you will also be a member of PFLAG-National. You can fill out our membership form (a pdf file) and pay by check. You can donate to PFLAG-Olympia by mail.
PFLAG is a tax-exempt, non-profit 50l(c)(3) organization
not affiliated with any political or religious institution.
Send your check made out to PFLAG-Olympia to PO Box 12732, Olympia, WA 98508-2732.
Thank You!Subscribe to our newsletter
available in a print version mailed to your home
or email only sent as a pdf attachment
to subscribe send an email to newsletter@pflag-olympia.org or snail mail to
PO Box 12732
Olympia, WA 98508-2732
Read "Heartbeat" ~ PFLAG-Olympia's bi-monthly newsletter:
Current, back issues and selected articles from older "Heartbeat" and more. . . (pdf files, and older articles on html pages)Our PFLAG-Olympia brochure - tri-fold, two sides of an 8.5"x11" page (pdf)
Opening the pdf files linked below requires a fairly new version of the free Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded here
Our chapter's Program History - going back to 1993!
For Parents, Guardians and Family Members of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Transgender, Intersex or Questioning Youth - an excellent brochure composed by Carolyn Wagner, past vice-president of PFLAG National, with input from many parents who have known and experienced the challenges and blessings of raising a child whose sexual orientation and/or gender identity is different from their parents, edited by Gabi Clayton.
Two versions - one to read online, one to download & print with room for your organization's name and information on the back page.
formatted for printing: http://www.gabiclayton.com/familybrochure.pdf - (153kb pdf format)
formatted for reading online: http://www.gabiclayton.com/familybrochure-s.pdf (114kb pdf format)Subscribe to PFLAG-Olympia Alert - a one-way announcement email listserv designed to inform our members and friends of upcoming events, programs, and more. Email updates are sent out prior to each of our the regular meetings and whenever something comes up that we think that our list subscribers might want to know about.
To subscribe, unsubscribe, and otherwise manage your subscription go here. List archives are accessible to list subscribers and can be found here.
Only the listserv moderators can send email to the Alert list. If you would like to submit an announcement, email it to lowdown@pflag-olympia.org - Thank you.
The PFLAG-Olympia Blog - Commentary, announcements, etc.
Looking for resources? Click here.
Our History In 1972, Jeanne Manford started an international movement when she marched with her son Mortie in New York s Gay Pride Parade. Enraged that her son had been beaten at a gay rights protest two months before while police did nothing, she carried a sign at the Pride march that said, Parents of Gays: Unite in Support of Our Children. After many gay and lesbian people ran up to Jeanne during the parade and begged her to talk to their parents, she decided to begin a support group. The first formal meeting took place in March 1973 at a local church. Approximately 20 people attended.
By 1980, PFLAG, then known as Parents FLAG, began to distribute information to educational institutions and communities of faith nationwide and established itself as a source of information for the general public. When Dear Abby mentioned PFLAG, more than 7,000 letters were received requesting information. In 1981, members decided to launch a national organization.
In 1998 PFLAG members voted overwhelmingly to include transgendered people in the group's mission statement at their annual meeting. The bylaws were changed to read: The purpose of this Corporation shall be: To promote the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons...
Now PFLAG has grown to include more than 500 chapters and over 200,000 members across the United States and abroad, representing the largest chapter network in the struggle for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) rights.For more about PFLAG's national history, see PFLAG's Rich Past Provides a Solid Foundation for the Future.
PFLAG-Olympia was formed in 1993.
