- ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Holiday Closure
- Rodeo Clean-Up
Help Needed - New Board/ Committee Member
- Calling All Artists!
- Prescott HS GSA
Gets Focused - Relay Raises
Over $60K - NEW and SPECIAL EVENTS
- REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS
- New! The Pride Connection and Calendar PDFs
- Continuing Items
of Interest - Elsewhere in
Northern AZ - Upcoming Events
Download: The Pride Connection (2MB PDF) • July 2009 calendar • August 2009 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:
- Open Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays, 2 to 5 pm
- Director’s Office Hours: None in July and August
- Note: Please be considerate of those with chemical sensitivities and avoid using scented products when you visit the Pride Center.
July and August 2009 Announcements
Holiday Closure
The Prescott Pride Center will be closed on Saturday, the 4th of July. Enjoy the holiday and be safe! In addition, there will be no Wednesday director hours in July and August. If you need to speak with Frankie, please contact her at (928) 443-8520 to make an appointment.
Rodeo Clean-Up Help Needed
Hey, partner, we need you! The Pride Center and the Prescott Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) are working with the Prescott Frontier Rodeo to make some extra cash for the Center and the OUTdoors! LGBTQ Youth Conference. If you can help on Sunday, July 5th at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds, please call Kado at (928) 445-8800 or (928) 451-5661 right away!
New Board/Committee Member
The Pride Center is pleased to welcome Kado Stewart to our board of directors and event-planning committee. Kado has done an awesome job providing leadership for youth in her VISTA role and we’re delighted to have her take on even more leadership responsibility at the Center.
If you’d like to join the Pride Center’s leadership team or find out what’s going on behind the scenes, come and check out our meetings. Our next event-planning committee meeting is right after the Breakfast Club at 1:30 pm on Sunday, August 9th and the board meeting begins whenever the event-planning meeting is over that same day (around 3 pm). For more information or to add an item to the agenda, please call Frankie at (928) 443-8520.
Calling All Artists!
Now that the Pride Center is looking so much snazzier, we’d like to freshen up the space even more with some new art on the walls. We’re looking for local artists, gay and straight, who want to display their artwork at the Center (we even have a locking cabinet for handmade jewelry or other small art pieces). We’ll rotate the art often and all of the pieces will be available for sale to the community with a 70/30 split of the proceeds between the artist and the Pride Center. To take advantage of this new opportunity to get your artwork seen and sold, please call Frankie at (928) 443-8520 for details.
Prescott HS GSA Gets Focused
The Prescott Pride Center would like to recognize the efforts of Prescott High School (PHS) students who participated in an organizational development meeting at the Pride Center this summer. Members of the PHS Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) worked together with Pride Center staff to create a formal mission and vision for their group. This important gathering helped the students clarify the purpose of their club and plan for some of their long-term goals. We applaud their efforts and congratulate the students who stepped up to take on a leadership role at such a young age. The skills these GLBT youth are developing now will be the skills that lead the GLBT movement into the future!
Relay Raises Over $60K
Building bridges with the general community is one of the best ways GLBT people can change hearts and minds. And that exactly what happened in last month’s Quad Cities Community Relay. Members of the “Over the Rainbow” team raised $445 for the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer. What a great way to increase GLBT visibility and work together for the best interests of the entire Prescott community! Congratulations, and thank you, to the entire team!
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New and Special Events
(click on the link to go to our Events and News Page for details)
- Volunteers Needed for Rodeo Clean-Up Days on Sunday, July 5th (Prescott Rodeo Grounds). If you can help, please call Kado at (928) 445-8800 or (928) 451-5661 right away!.
- Girlz Grillin’ Nights on Fridays, July 10th & August 14th at 6 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- Study Sessions: “Homosexuality and the Bible” on Sundays, July 19th and August 2nd & 16th, from 1 to 2:30 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- World AIDS Day Alliance Meeting on Tuesday, July 21st at 6 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- Movie & Discussion: Beautiful Daughters on Friday, July 31st at 6 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- Ice Cream Social & Dog Day on Saturday, August 22nd from 2 to 4 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- OUTdoors! Youth Leadership Conference is not until October (amp Sky-Y, Prescott), but space is limited to the first 100 approved applicants, so youth are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to guarantee a spot. More…
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Regularly Scheduled Events
- Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance dates and locations have changed. More…
- Softball Sunday: July 12th & 26th and August 9th & 23rd at 5 pm (RSVP for locations).
- Breakfast Club at Waffles ‘N More (1365 W. Iron Springs Road, Prescott): Sundays, July 12th & August 9th at 11:30 am. RSVPs are a must!
- Event Planning and Board Meetings: Sunday, August 9th; “Events” starts at 1:30 pm and “Board” at ~3 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- T-Time for Trans: Sundays, July 26th & August 30th at 1:30 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- Talk Time Gals: Mondays, July 13th & 27th and August 10th & 24th from 3 to 5 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- Spanish Classes: On Summer Vacation.
- Men’s Movie Night: Tuesdays, July 7th & 21st and August 4th & 18th at (Rex & Roger’s Rainbow Theater; contact them for directions).
- Prescott GSA: Thursdays, July 2nd & 30th and Tuesday, August 25th at 6 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- Coffee Night: Thursdays, Thursdays, July 16th & August 20th; New Summer Hours start at 7 pm (Prescott Pride Center).
- DiningIN Potluck at the Pride Center: Thursday, July 23rd & August 27th at 6 pm (please RSVP).
- Parents’ Night Out is back: Friday, August 21st from 6 to 10 pm (Prescott Pride Center)
- PFLAG Prescott Meetings: On Summer Vacation.
- Wondering what else is going on in Northern Arizona? For info about fun GLBT events (hiking, dining out, pub and movie nights, etc.) in Sedona, Flagstaff, Oak Creek, and Verde Valley, — and non-Pride Center events in the Tri-Cities — please visit our friends at
- Alternatives of Safford. The folks in Safford, Arizona have launched a GLBT outreach program in their community.
- Yahoo Chat Group. A friendly members-only group designed for chatting and sharing information about Prescott-area happenings. Sign up then post an introduction.
- Let your voice be heard in Northern Arizona. Tune in every Saturday morning at 10 am to Equality Arizona Radio and discuss topics relevant to the LGBT community in Arizona. You can hear us at 1480KPHX or our live stream online.
- download the Two-Spirit Newsletter PDF at GaynFlagstaff
- For transgender events, sign up for Northern Arizona Gender Alliance (NAGA) Yahoo group
- the Sedona-Verde Valley Gay Pride Association
- Sign up for the Prescott Gay Hiking & Recreation Club
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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.)
The Pride Connection and Calendar PDFs
- The Pride Connection, the Precott Pride Center’s bimonthly newsetter, is now available as a free downloadable PDF (~2MB).
- Download individual monthly calendars: July 2009 PDF and August 2009 PDF
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Continuing Items of Interest
- The Pride Center has created a special philanthropy program: The Rainbow Club. This program is designed to help cover the Pride Center’s monthly operating expenses, such as insurance, rent, and utilities, freeing other revenue to generate new programs and services for the community. More…
- Become a Pride Partner and receive the monthly The Pride Connection newsletter, discounted admission to the Pride Center Events, and other great benefits. Download the introductory letter and form PDF now.
- Pride Center Business Connection. The 2005 edition is still available: a 530K low-resolution version and a 1.8M high-resolution version. (Both will look good on the screen, but placed images in the high-res version will print more nicely.)
- If you have not done so recently, please take a look at the Prescott Pride Center’s Safe Zone Policy and Safe Zone Guidelines.
- Whose Job Is It? A Parable about Responsibility.
- Speaking of gender, Joni Mountain shares with us a few points of etiquette entitled “How Do I Deal with a Transgender Person?”
- The Pride Center building was vandalized in April 2005. Read some of the community response and see some of the pictures here.
- What do we mean by “Connecting Our Community”?
- With your help, we can complete the Prescott Wall tiles!
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