Nashville Pride celebrates diversity and will not tolerate any individual making derogatory remarks about a person's age, race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, size, wardrobe, physical ability, economic status, and/or religion. Nashville Pride is a safe space and will not tolerate any threatening, violent, harassing, or offensive behavior against its volunteers, staff, artists, performers, festival goers, parade participants, security personnel or members of the public.ģ. All participants in the parade and festival are expected to embrace and respect this.Ģ. Nashville Pride is a celebration recognizing the past struggles and future possibilities of the LGBTQ+ community.
Pride meets at 9pm on Thursday in the Little Blue House (behind Chapman Hall).Nashville Pride is a welcoming place to come together with friends, family, and loved ones to celebrate the progress of the LGBTQ+ community. Our code of conduct is designed to ensure the parade and festival is a safe and accepting space for everyone and that everyone is treated with courtesy and respect.ġ. Tulsa is the very heart of the heartland and it shows.įull disclosure: Tara Grigson is Presbian (president/lesbian) of Pride at TU, the on-campus LGBTQSIA+ advocacy organization. However, compared to the occasional burst of bigotry or hate, the amount of kindness, love, affirmation, and support is overwhelming. I’m not going to lie, some people will discriminate, and not everyone will be kind. So basically, it is okay to be gay in Tulsa. There are many other examples on the OKEQ website. There are some options for people who are not Christian as well (although they are fewer, because Tulsa is largely Christian): the Islamic Society of Tulsa is open and affirming, as well as Temple Israel Synagogue. Saturday, June 26 - A book signing for Black and Queer: There’s More Than Sugar in My Tank written by Asa Leveaux, The Eleanor, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 26 - OKC Pride Alliance’s Pride Parade, downtown OKC, 10 a.m. Jerome’s Ecumenical Catholic, Boston Avenue United Methodist, College Hill Presbyterian, and Fellowship United Church of Christ. Saturday, June 26 - OKC Pride Alliance’s Pride Parade launch party, Arts District in downtown OKC, 8 a.m. Contact if you are interested.Īre you a religious queer person? There are a vast number of local churches that will LOVE you and affirm your identities (there are also some that won’t, avoid those).Ĭhristian options include All Souls Unitarian, St. The other support group option takes place right here on campus: what I like to refer to as super-secret LGBT support group, which is a totally confidential group that meets at a secret time and place.
If you are looking for a support group off campus, you should contact Vic Weiner (they/them) You will make friends and your pronouns and name will be respected. If you are under 21 and looking for a club: Club Majestic, downtown, is the place for you! If you go on the right night, you might bump into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Find more information on their website: OKEQ is also responsible for the Equality Business Alliance, where you can find basically anything you might need (bakers, doctors, financial advisors, and also everything else). There are activities taking place at the equality center every single day of the week, and it is open 365 days a year. OKEQ is led by Tulsa’s “gay mayor” Toby Jenkins. Neill Equality center, which houses Oklahomans for Equality. Our second stop is at the 6th largest gay community center IN THE WORLD: the Dennis R.
Join us at 12 o’clock on Wednesdays for a free vegetarian lunch! It houses United Campus Ministry, which supports a number of student groups, including Pride. It is always open and everyone there is affirming and kind. It is easily identifiable, because it is literally a little blue house. Which brings us to our first LGBT resource on our very gay tour of Tulsa: the Little Blue House. I am here to address these assumptions and to tell you that it is okay to be gay in Tulsa. If you are new to Tulsa, or even if you have lived here your whole life, you may have heard that we are a red city, in a red state, in a red region.Ĭonsequently, you may have assumed that it is basically impossible to be a queer person in Tulsa.