Pride Throughout the Years

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  Pride is a time to bring people together—to celebrate—to stand up for the freedom to believe out loud! This year, Pride celebrations may look a little different, but we’re still creating space for joy and connection. We invite you to look back with us at how our team at Believe Out Loud has commemorated…

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Pride Conversations: A Q&A with Ross Murray of GLAAD

Pride Month this year is unlike any other. With so much change in the world around us, one thing remains the same: the significance of Pride to LGBT people, their friends and families. To help share and spread Pride this month, we’re conducting a series of Pride Conversations. These brief Q&As are designed to help…

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Pride Continues

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June is LGBT Pride Month! With this current pandemic keeping us from gathering in large groups, some will say that this year’s Pride is cancelled, but this is not true. Though we can’t get together and rejoice with one another, Pride continues on within all of us. Parades may not be taking place this year,…

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Agender Pride Day

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May 19th marks Agender Pride Day! To be agender means to not identify as any particular gender.  Agender is also called genderblank , genderfree, genderless, gendervoid, non-gendered, ungendered, or null gender. The agender identity falls under the nonbinary umbrella and (sometimes) the transgender umbrella. Agender people can have any preference for pronouns (he/she/they), but some prefer to avoid…

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Out Under The Rainbow

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Have you ever looked into a person’s face and felt truly needed? Sometimes, I look into the face of another person who definitely needs me in some way, but the need itself is unspoken, unfamiliar, uncomfortable—or out of tune with the time and place—and instead of addressing it, I move on to what’s next, feeling…

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The Collegiate Churches Of New York Bring Church To Pride

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“Love Period” was the simple message that The Collegiate Churches of New York and Believe Out Loud proudly displayed at this year’s New York City Pride March.  All four Collegiate Churches, including Fort Washington Church, Middle Church, Marble Church and West End Church, along with Intersections International and the Believe Out Loud team, joined forces…

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