Pride is never over – here are five ways that you can stay involved year round.
1. Listen – A few podcasts featuring LGBTQ+ voices that offer insight and perspective, giving listeners a space to learn and recognize ways in which they can support the community
2. Use Your Voice
- Speak out against homophobia, transphobia and anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and discrimination
- Respectfully ask for and use people’s correct pronouns
- Verbalize your love and support for your friends, family and community
3. Do the Reading – A few LGBTQ+ book titles that offer a historical perspective
- “Another Country” – by James Baldwin
- “The Boys of Fairy Town” – by Jim Alledge
- “The Stonewall Reader” – A collection of firsthand accounts, diaries, periodic literature and articles
- “Transgender History” – by Susan Stryker
- “A Queer History of the United States” – By Michael Bronski
4. Donate
- Human Rights Campaign – The nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, envisioning a world where LGBTQ people are ensured equality at home, work and in every community
- Equality Illinois – The state’s largest LGBTQ civil rights advocacy program
- AIDS Foundation Chicago – Aspires to create a world in which people living with HIV or chronic conditions will thrive, and there will be no new HIV cases
- Lambda Legal – The oldest and largest national legal organization working for the civil rights of LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV
- Black AIDS Institute – Mission to stop the HIV epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing black institutions and individuals
5. Volunteer
- Broadway Youth Center – A safe and affirming space for Chicago youth 12-24 of all gender expressions and identities, free HIV/STI testing, drop-in, educational programs and resources
- Chicago House – Providing housing, health and employment support to individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS as well as the most vulnerable in our LGBTQ+ communities
- Affinity Community Services – A social justice organization for Black LGBTQ+ people on Chicago’s South Side
- Center on Halsted – The Midwest’s most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing and securing the health and well-being of the LGBTQ people of Chicagoland
- Brave Space Alliance – A Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ center working on the South Side of Chicago
