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Chosen Family Holiday Party

Join us for a fun filled evening of food, friends and games!This is a no cost event to provide a safe and supportive place for our LGBT+ community to be together and celebrate with friends. Sunday, December 19, 2021 from 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM Kodiak Club1800 Tulare StreetFresno, CA 93721Dinner and non alcoholic drink provided.Our […]

LGBT+ Virtual Speed Friending

LGBT Fresno is proud to announc: LGBT+ Speed Friending! November 2nd from 6pm to 7pm RSVP for your link to join   This is an online event catered to anyone within the LGBT+ community or allies looking to meet new people and make friends! Use your webcam/camera on your phone/tablet/computer. We’ll go over the rules

Non-binary student booed and jeered by parents at CUSD meeting

  During their two minutes at the lectern, Rami (who identifies as non-binary and says he’s immunocompromised) forcefully delivered a message many in the room didn’t want to hear: Their protests over school mask mandates and vaccines — all based on slanted mistruths about COVID — reek of ignorance and privilege. “We sit here arguing

Bars and Clubs

  Sadly many historic LGBT+ clubs and bars have closed, including: The Express (formally 708) closed their doors in 2013.The North Tower Circle closed in 2014, reopening as Bam Bams/Twisters in 2015, then closing again in 2016. The Den closed in 2010 due to fire, reopening in 2011 as The Phoenix. The Phoenix closed in

Nobody Promised You Tomorrow

Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall presents a constellation of twenty-eight LGBTQ+ artists born after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and working, five decades later, in New York, the hometown of the revolt. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the six-day rebellion—ignited by a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in

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LGBT+ Meux Home Tour

Join LGBT Fresno for a private group tour of the beautiful Meux home and gardens. Never been? What a great chance to see a national landmark! Been before? Come see the restoration projects done over the last year. Did you know we had such a historic location in Fresno? Come out and join us to

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SIX HUNDRED THOUS-AND YOU

SIX HUNDRED THOUS-AND YOU. The Bulldog Pride Fund was established in 2005 with two $50 donations, and officially recognized by the Fresno State Alumni Association in 2006.As of June 30, 2021, total donations to the BPF have surpassed $600,000! Overall, the BPF endowment has provided 86 scholarships valued at $165,000.Thank you, donors, for your support

Kampout Returns

After having to cancel the 40 th Anniversary of Kampout last year due to COVID, the Kampout Committee has begun preparations for the celebration of 40 years in the pines. Kampout 2021, A Hike Down Memory Trail, will be held the weekend after Labor Day, September 10 through 12 at our site across the road from Texas Flat Campground. The

Pride Ride

Announcing Pride Ride – safe community transportation

Today, LGBT Fresno announced free transportation to LGBT+ individuals in need. This program was launched in an effort to help address the epidemic of violence against the LGBT+ community. Our goal is simple — provide reliable and immediate access to transportation for LGBT+ people, a community that has been disproportionately impacted by discrimination, stigma and

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Fresno Unified schools to receive 1,000+ LGBT+ friendly books

More than 1,000 LGBTQ-friendly books are on their way to Fresno Unified schools, thanks to a recent donation. The 1,040 books donated by Gender Nation — a nonprofit that helps schools obtain age-appropriate LGBTQ stories — are primarily children’s fiction featuring LGBTQ protagonists and other characters in stories like “Julián Is a Mermaid.” The donation