For the lead up to Give For Good Louisville, one of our Board Members, Kasen Meek, wrote a powerful op-ed in the Courier-Journal about the importance of the Louisville Pride Foundation. He writes, "As an openly transgender man, I know how important and healing the spaces LPF provides are to this community. In fact, I was literally moved to tears hugging a stranger at the Louisville Pride Festival. A man, standing in the crowd with a shirt that read “Free [...]

It didn’t matter which search engine I used. One name kept popping up in the results. Dawn Wilson. This was the mid-1990s. There was no Google then. If you wanted to find anything on the newly developed World Wide Web you either used Lycos, AltaVista or Yahoo.  As someone who did not understand why I had conflicts regarding my gender identity I was scouring anything I could to understand the subject of being transgender and during those searches I would [...]

The Louisville Bats have teamed up with Louisville Pride Foundation, Derby City Pride League & Queer Kentucky to host Pride Night at the ballpark! Fans can help support each organization by visiting the link below. By choosing to purchase tickets through this collaboration, a portion of each ticket purchased will help support the organization of your choice. In addition to to raising LGBTQ visibility, a portion of ticket sales benefits the Louisville Pride Foundation! Click here to buy your ticket. [...]

We are getting a lot of neat ideas for alternative ways to celebrate Pride! In order to help us evaluate the different options, we are making a Request for Proposals for 2021 Festival Alternatives. If you have an idea, please follow the instructions below and submit it by September 3rd. Background: The 2021 Louisville Pride Festival was scheduled for September 18th. It has been cancelled due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases. In the interest of providing safe activities for [...]

After two years of cancellations, we are thrilled to be BACK with the Louisville Pride Festival on Saturday, September 17! To volunteer, sign up here! To be a vendor, register here!

  Yellow and red lighted building during night time Louisville Business First interviews Spencer Jenkins of Queer Kentucky and LPF Board Member Xian Brooks about rainbow capitalism. "Pride-related marketing has exploded in the years following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in 2015," writes Haley Cawthon, and "it’s usually what drives corporate sponsorship dollars that keeps organizations like [Queer Kentucky] afloat and increases visibility on a national scale." The article has suggestions for businesses that [...]

For Pride Month, Becker's Hospital Review looks at how 7 hospitals across the country are trying to reduce LGBTQ health care disparities. "More than half of patients in the LGBTQ community report having faced discrimination in a healthcare setting. Seventy percent of transgender or gender-nonconforming patients said they have experienced discrimination in a healthcare setting, and 56 percent of lesbian, gay or bisexual patients reported facing discrimination in healthcare, according to the Human Rights Campaign's "Healthcare Equality Index 2020." Locally, you [...]

Person at computer Here is a great opportunity we are offering to our amazing  LGBT+ community partners about our upcoming National LGBT+ Youth Summer Tech Camps.   Maven Youth is a national nonprofit which provides LGBT+ Youth to network, organize and educate for social change through technology.  We foster a rare safe space for LGBT+ Youth (14-24) to explore careers in tech while learning to code with other LGBT+ Youth across the country. If you ever looked into [...]

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