Download PDFs: The Pride Connection • January 2010 calendar • February 2010 calendar

Click on the links for more details about events. You can also call us at (928) 445-8800 or email us for more information about any of the listings. We are located at 111 Josephine Street, Prescott, AZ .

Hours of Operation

Please note our new office hours:

January and February 2010 Announcements

Renewal Reminder

The Pride Center would like to thank everyone who renewed their 2010 pride partnership without any poking or prodding. We’re especially grateful to everyone who enclosed a little extra this year. If you haven’t renewed yet, please send in your Pride Partnership form today.

Our New Year’s Resolution

At the end of 2009, the Prescott Pride Center leadership team took a thorough look at our organization’s year-end fitness and we noticed a few things that were in need of special attention. It’s our New Year’s resolution to address these issues right away to ensure that we’re engaging and serving the local community as effectively as possible.

Our first order of business is to reinvigorate the Pride Center’s open hours. The number of visitors has declined over the past year, particularly on weekdays, so we’ve decided to concentrate our hours to one day a week for a while to build attendance back up. In addition, we’ll be bringing in several brand new staffers and calling back some popular former staffers to get the positive energy flowing again. We’ll even have two staffers working together whenever possible. All this new energy should result in a fun and vibrant social atmosphere that everyone can enjoy together! Our new open hours will be on Saturdays from 2 pm to 5 pm. When we get attendance back up and enough new staffers trained, we’ll definitely be expanding to more days and times, maybe even adding some evening hours! In the meantime, come and join us every Saturday to meet the new staffers and catch up with old friends.

When you visit the Pride Center, you’ll also see that we’ve updated our safe space guidelines. The old set served us well, but they definitely needed a little freshening up. For the new year, we’ve created a new set of guidelines that better reflect the atmosphere and culture we want to maintain at the Pride Center. The new guidelines are listed here and they’ll be posted throughout the building. Please take a look at them and be sure to keep them in mind every time you visit the Pride Center.

Another change you’ll notice is that we’re limiting the number of events the Pride Center is hosting during the first part of this year. This temporary break is necessary so we can take care of a few internal priorities that need our immediate attention. Some of those priorities include securing grant funds for continuing our youth programming, soliciting first-time newsletter advertisers to replace those we lost in the economic crunch, dealing with tons of yard sale leftovers that are still hanging around, cleaning out our very cluttered shed and offices, and fulfilling a significant number of grant requirements. Many of these things continue to be placed on the back burner due to our commitment to community events, so we realized that an official break was necessary to ensure that we actually get them done. We’ll still have Saturday open hours (which should be much-improved), our monthly community meals, and a couple of other small events. Hopefully these activities will sustain you while we clean house and take care of business.

We want to thank each and every one of you for all the love and support you continue to show to the Pride Center. We hope our New Year’s resolutions to fix what’s in need of repair and focus on what’s necessary for our organization’s health will be understood and appreciated. It’s all in the interest of freshening things up and making this year better than the year before. Thank you for your enthusiastic support as we seek to improve our service!

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Board President Resigns

We’re sad to report that Robert Gortarez, a longtime Pride Center board member, has resigned from our leadership team due to health problems. Robert hopes to return to service at the Center in the future and says he will dearly miss his association with us in the meantime. We would like to extend heartfelt thanks to Robert for his long-term commitment to the Prescott Pride Center. He has always been an enthusiastic member of our leadership team and we wish him all the best as he focuses on rebuilding his health.

If anyone would like to send a note of thanks or well-wishes to Robert, please send them directly to the Pride Center and we’ll forward them on. Thank you, Robert, for all the years of dedicated service you devoted to the Pride Center and the Prescott-area GLBT community!

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New Advisory Board Member

The Prescott Pride Center is pleased to welcome a new addition to our leadership team. Rose Miztri was recently elected to serve as an advisor on transgender issues to the Pride Center’s board of directors. Rose is uniquely qualified to offer insight into transgender conditions in the Prescott-area community, having transitioned here over the last 12 years. Rose, a 60-year-old transwoman and military veteran, has also been very active in the local transgender community over the last several years—not always as an organizer, but often as a source of support for those trying to find their way in a confusing situation.

She has been running the T-Time group at the Pride Center for more than 18 months and is the current owner/manager of two online trans groups, the Northern Arizona Gender Alliance-NAGA and Transgender-Arizona. Rose is a member of the Arizona Trans Alliance, CAGA, SAGA, and TransMentors International and has recently made connections with TAVA (Transgendered American Veterans Association).

Rose is deeply motivated to represent and serve the local transgender community, especially when it comes to the remarkably high suicide rate for transgender people. In Rose’s own words, “No one needs to take a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” We welcome Rose to her new position and we look forward to her assistance in broadening our understanding of transgender issues. If you would have any questions or suggestions that pertain to the trans community, please feel free to contact Rose through the Pride Center at (928) 445-8800 or by email.

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Forecast: Frightful

You all know that classic winter song about snow, what with the weather outside being frightful and the fire being so delightful and all. Well, that’s all well and good if you have a cuddle buddy and a fireplace, but the Pride Center is single and hearthless! That’s why our staffers sometimes stay home when Mother Nature decides to really “let it snow.” So please call ahead to make sure we’re open before making a trip to the Pride Center in snowy or icy weather this winter.

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New and Special Events
(click on the link to go to our Events and News Page for details)

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Regularly Scheduled Events

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Upcoming Events

Looking down the road a bit, we now have listings of some events planned for the next few months. (Note: Some of these plans may be pretty tentative at this point, and details are subject to change as dates approach. Changes will be made and events will be added as we become aware of them.)

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Continuing Items of Interest

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The Pride Connection and Calendar PDFs

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