Welcome to the Tacoma, Washington chapter of PFLAG, supporting the families of LGBTQ and gender non-conforming people, their allies and their community.
PFLAG is a volunteer organization with locations throughout the USA and other parts of the world. We promote the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning persons, their families and friends. Please note that our primary goal is to provide education and emotional support. Due to limited resources, we are cannot provide financial support to individuals.
PFLAG Tacoma meets the 2nd Thursday of every month @ 7pm. Want to join the support group each month?
We'd love to meet you!!
Join us via Zoom by clicking here!
PFLAG is a volunteer organization with locations throughout the USA and other parts of the world. We promote the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning persons, their families and friends. Please note that our primary goal is to provide education and emotional support. Due to limited resources, we are cannot provide financial support to individuals.
PFLAG Tacoma meets the 2nd Thursday of every month @ 7pm. Want to join the support group each month?
We'd love to meet you!!
Join us via Zoom by clicking here!
Next meeting: September 9th
Topic: Bullying & Suicide Ideation
Guests include:
Dani Smotrich-Barr, an Americorps Fellow with GLSN Washington
Sean Heans, Community Engagement Specialist with the WA Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds
Topic: Bullying & Suicide Ideation
Guests include:
Dani Smotrich-Barr, an Americorps Fellow with GLSN Washington
Sean Heans, Community Engagement Specialist with the WA Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds
Maven Youth is a national non-profit providing tech education for LGBT+ Youth. We are actively building the new LGBT+ Youth tech workforce.
ALL our programming is FREE for LGBT+ Youth nationally. (14-19yrs of age)
Maven Youth has an extensive list of LGBTQIA friendly summer camps! Check them out HERE!
ALL our programming is FREE for LGBT+ Youth nationally. (14-19yrs of age)
Maven Youth has an extensive list of LGBTQIA friendly summer camps! Check them out HERE!
Camp Ten Trees is a nonprofit residential camp in Washington State. Camp Ten Trees was founded in 2000 by four co-directors and offered its first summer camp session in August 2001, serving just 20 campers. Since that time, we have served campers from throughout the United States and beyond. Camp Ten Trees is a place for diverse youth who share common experiences to come together and form a community that is truly their own. In addition to traditional camp activities like swimming, archery, and nature hikes, campers engage in age-appropriate workshops exploring identity, issues of oppression/privilege, youth coalition building, social justice, and more.
Camp Ten Trees is a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN 01-0923793). Donations to the organization are deductible to the extent permitted by law. Donations, grants, and other contributions allow Camp Ten Trees to maintain accessibility, high-quality programming, and low costs for children, youth, and their families. Camp Ten Trees was one of the first of its kind in the world and still offers the Pacific Northwest’s only residential summer camp programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies and for children/youth of LGBTQ or non-traditional families. Consider donating now!
Gender Spectrum is getting ready to launch a digital campaign focused on parents of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth & we're excited to give y’all a heads up before it even launches.
Next month we will be sharing #TRANSparent stories from parents like many of you. We are collecting video submissions from parents in the Gender Spectrum community that want to share open and honest (“transparent”) experiences navigating their child’s gender journey during the pandemic.
Being able to share stories from parents in our community will not only build additional community, parent affinity, resources, support, and more, but we also hope sharing these stories across our social media platforms and mail servers will help Gender Spectrum gain additional avenues of support — anything from an increase in social media followers to financial contributions would be amazing in helping us continue our programming!
If you are interested in learning more about how you can share your #TRANSparent story, please click here for video submission guidelines and directions. If you are more interested in hearing from others, follow us on social media and stay tuned for additional emails.
Thanks for being a part of our ever-expanding parent community.
Corey Pessin (he/him)
Development Coordinator
Next month we will be sharing #TRANSparent stories from parents like many of you. We are collecting video submissions from parents in the Gender Spectrum community that want to share open and honest (“transparent”) experiences navigating their child’s gender journey during the pandemic.
Being able to share stories from parents in our community will not only build additional community, parent affinity, resources, support, and more, but we also hope sharing these stories across our social media platforms and mail servers will help Gender Spectrum gain additional avenues of support — anything from an increase in social media followers to financial contributions would be amazing in helping us continue our programming!
If you are interested in learning more about how you can share your #TRANSparent story, please click here for video submission guidelines and directions. If you are more interested in hearing from others, follow us on social media and stay tuned for additional emails.
Thanks for being a part of our ever-expanding parent community.
Corey Pessin (he/him)
Development Coordinator
Check out incredible resources from this newsletter of the WA State Employee Assistance Program!
Want to learn more about pronouns and their importance? Click the picture to educate yourself and those you love.
Click the image above to learn more about the Pride Foundation's Scholarship program!!
Tacoma PFLAG aims to be inclusive of our Deaf & Hard of Hearing Queer community members at all meetings. ASL interpreting is available, as well as captioning. Please let us know your accessibility needs if you are attending so that we are appropriately inclusive and equitable.
Click the rainbow logo to the right to learn some LGBTQ+ signs in American Sign Language! --->
Click the rainbow logo to the right to learn some LGBTQ+ signs in American Sign Language! --->