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.
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,
or you may
join online by filling out this form and pay with
PayPal.
You can donate to PFLAG-Olympia
by mail or online.
Send your check
made out to PFLAG-Olympia to PO
Box 12732, Olympia, WA 98508-2732.
To donate online using
PayPal click the Donate button:
Thank You!
PFLAG-Olympia
Alert is 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.
Opening the pdf files linked below
requires a fairly new version of the free Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded here
Our PFLAG-Olympia brochure
- tri-fold, two sides of an 8.5"x11"
page (pdf)
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 chapter's Program History - going back to
1993!
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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.
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The Pizza Klatch offers facilitated support
for GLBTQ youth and their allies.
The Pizza Klatch is a
grassroots collaboration between school counselors, faculty, GSAs
therapists in the community and PFLAG-Olympia, Partners in
Prevention Education, Stonewall Youth and St. Benedict's Episcopal
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Safe Schools:
Cultivating Respect
For too many of
our children, attending school can be a frightening experience. As
parents, families and friends we need to do something to make
schools safer for our LGBT and all students. Please join PFLAG by
advocating for strong national policies, learning the Top 10 Ways
you can Make Schools Safer… For All Students, hosting a PFLAG
Cultivating Respect certification training in your
community, or promoting our national scholarship program.
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have an important role to play in fighting bullying and harassment,
and everyone has a stake in the success of this work. See
more on our national website here: http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=1011
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What is Straight for
Equality?
This PFLAG program is about awareness
and fairness.
You don't need to march. You don't need to shout a
slogan. But you may be surprised by how effective small changes can be...
7 in 10 people have a gay relative or
friend.
Find out how you can help support them and make
your corner of the world just a little (or a lot)
better.
Take the pledge!
This is an
opportunity - and invitation - to change the world around you
and help the gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender people in your
life.
Sign the pledge and show your support for equality
today.
Find out more - and sign the pledge at
http://www.straightforequality.org/
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