Just in time for Pride, we are so excited for our first ever Cascadia PRIDE Resource kits, and a whole host of new Cascadia gear. For the first time, we’ve got a whole range of Non-Binary, Trans and Rainbow pins, stickers, patches and flags, and have also just created a new Cascadia “Progress” Lapel Pin, and have created a new PVC velcro stick Cascadia Rainbow Pride Patch. Because of popular demand, we’ve also re-upped our Cascadia PRIDE stickers with the trans colors in the trees.
Check out all the new gear here: https://cascadiabioregion.org/cascadia-store
In addition, we are very excited for our first “Cascadia PRIDE Resource Kits”. Not only do they come with a little bundle of awesome swag, but also a booklet that we put together featuring information about PRIDE in Cascadia, a timeline, some of the important things to consider and a basic allyship guide, as well as how much work we still have to do. Every pride related order will receive one of these booklets.
Grab a Pride Kit: https://cascadiabioregion.org/department-of-bioregion-2/cascadia-pride-kits
PRIDE Month is celebrated each year to celebrate, raise awareness and recognize the impact of LGBTQ2I individuals, organizers and culture. It is held each in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, New York - and this year being the 50th anniversary of Stonewall is an especially important year.
The Stonewall riots were a tipping point and the birth for the Gay Liberation and modern Gay Rights Movement in the United States and around the world. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as “Gay Pride Day,” but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the “day” soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposium and concerts, and LGBT Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS.
Our The Pride with Purpose mural was created in 2019 to educate and inspire individuals around the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the birth of the modern Gay Rights movement. It was created by 30+ queer, trans, Latinx, Black, non-binary, artist, anti-fascist Cascadians and members of the Department of Bioregion over two weeks. It features Marsha P. Johson and Sylvia Rivera, Black and Latin American drag queens that in 1970 launched the first molotov cocktails at Stonewall that launched the modern gay rights movement, and reminds us all that change does not passively happen, and sometimes our own existence is a revolutionary act.
