Kitsap Pride Announces Annual Summer LGBT Celebration

Sunday, July 20th, Kitsap Pride Network invites the community to Evergreen Park for a day of food and family friendly entertainment from 12 to 5pm.

This year’s theme, Reflections of Pride, honors the inherent dualism of the 1960s, which sparked the fiery Stonewall uprising amidst the peaceful revolution held by the “flower power” generation. Pride Chairperson, Michael Goodnow stated, “We’ve come a long way as a society. This past decade, we’ve experienced great strides forward in regards to the equal rights movement. It’s important to take a moment and reflect back on the struggles of those who came before us. It was their bravery, 45 years ago that got us to where we are today. “

Goodnow also shared a few highlights to this year’s event including performances by local artists the Dirty Beat Duo, and the first openly gay country music singer, Patrick Haggerty.

Kitsap Pride is a non-profit event organized by volunteers throughout Kitsap County. For more information on Kitsap Pride, how you can participate, or event dates and times, visit Kitsappride.org.

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED:  We are looking for amazing people who want to make a difference.  This year’s theme is Reflections of Pride.  Help create the community that YOU want to live in everyday.

Pride Planning Committee Members are needed to build our best event ever! We are looking for creative people with excellent follow through to help plan, fundraise and execute the event on the third weekend in July at Bremerton’s Evergreen Park.  You will need to attend several meetings per month and there will be tasks to be completed between meetings.  This is the team that makes the magic happen at the park.

Gay Skate Coordinator We are looking for a detail oriented community organizer to make monthly skate nights roll on! Need someone who can organized the details with the rink, help with marketing and recruit volunteers to help each month.  Being hell-on-wheels is a plus.

Street Team We need some fun-loving and outgoing peeps to distribute posters and other materials to help get the word OUT about our events.  Also to hit up our supportive businesses and offer them the opportunity to support us with sponsorships and prize donations

For more information contact us at celebrate@kitsappride.org, message us here on FB or use our Volunteer link on our FB page.

Kitsap Pride 2013

The annual celebration of Kitsap County’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally community!

This year’s entertainment includes Go Periscope and the Kim Archer Band.

For those of you wanting to show off your dog, there is a Puppy Pride Parade (for dogs of all ages). There will be prizes!

Evergreen Park, Bremerton
Noon to 5:00pm

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PRIDE 365

pride365 Kitsap Pride Network is excited to announce that we have adopted Interpride’s international theme for this year’s pride event. The 2013 theme is PRIDE 365.

InterPride is the international organization that ties Pride together globally. Members of the organization are dedicated volunteers who organize and work to put on Pride events all over the world.

We can celebrate the advances like Marriage Equality we have made over the last 365 days and rally towards complete equality for all LGBT people.

This year’s event will return to Evergreen Park on Sunday, July 21, 2013 from noon until 5pm.  Volunteers are busy planning this year’s event.  Join our mailing list to keep in touch or to volunteer.

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Approve Referendum 71

We want people to vote to APPROVE Referendum 71! We also want to encourage them to spread the word to their families and friends, and to get them more involved in the campaign as a volunteer.

The campaign – Washington Families Standing Together –
For more information please contact the organizers at volunteer@wafst.org or by calling 206.324.2570.

Vote to approve referendum 71

VOTE TO RETAIN WASHINGTON STATE’S
DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP LAW
VOTE TO APPROVE REFERENDUM 71

Ask your friends, family and co-workers to help us keep
Washington’s Domestic Partnership Law intact.

The domestic partnership law provides important protections to gay and lesbian couples and their children, and couples where at least one partner is over the age of 62. 

A coalition of  over 130 organizations have come together to create the Washington Families Standing Together campaign to work to retain Washington State’s Domestic Partnership Law. We need you to talk to your friends and family about the importance of voting
“Approve” on Referendum 71
 

PLEASE KEEP ALL WASHINGTON FAMILIES STRONG.
VOTE TO APPROVE REFERENDUM 71

Outrage

Kitsap Pride presents OUTRAGE on Friday, July 10.
 
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (“This Film Is Not Yet Rated”) serves up a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign and vote against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. “Outrage” goes deep into the private lives of some of our nation’s most powerful policymakers and political officials, unabashedly revealing their hidden lives.
Through first person interviews with ex-lovers and LGBT commentators, the film details the harm our political representatives have inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media’s complicity in keeping their secrets. Well known activists from Larry Kramer to Elizabeth Birch to Rodger McFarlane to politicians including Barney Frank and former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, all go on the offensive as they describe the destructiveness of the closeted and, especially, the Washington closeted life.

While ‘outing’ closeted gays has long been considered out of bounds, Dick explodes this nicety as he shows the relationship between closeted lawmakers and their anti-LGBT voting records. From the beginning of the fight to gain funding for HIV/AIDS education and treatment, through the current battle over marriage equality, closeted gay lawmakers repeatedly voted against their communities.

This is a benefit for Kitsap Pride

For more information, visit www.outragethemovie.com

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General Admission: $12.00 includes a sm. popcorn & a sm. drink
*Tickets available at the Orchard Theater Box Office
Date:          Friday, July 10, 2009
Time:         7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:    Orchard Theater
Street:       822 Bay Street
City/Town:  Port Orchard, WA
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Phone:       3608501082

 

Presidential Proclamation

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release June 1, 2009
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City
resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this
resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride
Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal
justice under law for LGBT Americans.

LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions
that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many
well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and
business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the
domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this
country’s response to the HIV pandemic.

Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights
movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever
before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates
to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These
individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my
Administration — in both the White House and the Federal agencies — openly
LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.

The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to
be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment,
and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity
and respect.

My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range
of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United
Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I
continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT
Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil
unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the
workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national
security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by
both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support
services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States.

These issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As
long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are
affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our
Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call
upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together
to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender
identity.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back
discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the
year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States
of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

BARACK OBAMA