Prescott Pride Center | Connecting Our Community

Download the Prescott Pride Center’s May 2008 calendar PDF and June 2008 calendar PDF. 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 ; our office hours are:

Tuesdays from 1 to 3 pm • Thursdays from 3 to 5 pm (new hours!) • Saturdays from 2 to 6 pm

May and June 2008 New Events and Announcements

Prescott Pride Center Director Receives Activist Award!

Frankie Reynolds, the Prescott Pride Center’s co-founder and executive director, will be presented with a special “activist award” on Saturday, June 14th, at Equality Arizona’s annual awards dinner in Phoenix. Frankie was nominated for the award by a community member who recognized and appreciated her role in providing GLBT resources and services to northern Arizona.

As many of you know, Frankie has devoted thousands of volunteer hours to the Pride Center and the Prescott GLBT community for many years. Congratulations, Frankie! We know you earned it and we know that our community has benefited immensely from your dedication and commitment! Thank you!

If you’re interested in attending the awards dinner with Frankie, please visit www.equalityarizona.org for all the details. Get tickets online or by calling (866) 551-8404.

Thursday Hours Reduced

Due to difficulty in securing adequate volunteers to cover all the Thursday shifts at the Pride Center, we are forced to cut back our Thursday open hours for the next couple of months. Beginning May 1st, Thursday hours will be reduced to 3 pm to 5 pm. Tuesday and Saturday hours will remain the same. Is it a disappointment that we have to scale back our open hours again? Of course. We would love to see the Pride Center open every day of the week throughout the day and evening, but reality, not wishful thinking, dictates our hours. Keeping the Center open is contingent upon community involvement. The equations are simple: strong volunteer commitment equals more Pride Center open hours and services, no volunteer commitment means no Pride Center at all. If you would like to devote some of your time to the local GLBT community, please contact Frankie at (928) 443-8520. We really and truly can’t do it without you…

Other Events and Announcements

Spanish Classes are moving! 1st and 2nd Thursday in May and June, starting at 6 pm and and returning to the Pride Center. More…
Girlz Grillin’ Night (New!) Fridays, May 9th / June 13th, 6 pm, at Loni & Gina’s Place (call for directions). Girls just wanna have fun, right? We also have that “Joan of Arc is in our DNA” fascination with fire, too, don’t we? So the combination of fun and flames was simply inevitable, wasn’t it? So here’s our plan… on the second Friday of every month, we’re going to have Girlz Grillin’ Night at Loni and Gina’s house. RSVPs are an absolute must for this event, so be sure to see the main article for contact info and other details…
Softball Sundays on Sundays, May 4th & 18th / June 1st & 22nd at 5 pm (note later time) (Pioneer Park Ballfield, 1200 Commerce Dr, Prescott). The Pride Center will continue to host informal softball practice and/or scrimmage games (depending on how many people show up) two Sundays a month throughout the summer. More…
Estate Planning Series, Part 1: Funeral Planning on Sunday, May 18th, 1:30 pm, at the Pride Center. The first part of our series focuses on funeral planning. Robert Gortarez, who has worked in the funeral industry for 17 years, will give a comprehensive presentation on funeral planning, followed by a substantial question and answer period. More…
Ballroom Dance Lessons (New!) on every Other Thursday in May & June, 6 to 7 pm, at the Backways PT (250 S. McCormick Street, Prescott). Do you watch “Dancing with the Stars” and think to yourself, “I could do that”? Or maybe you watch it and think, “there’s no way I could do that.” Well, either way, you’re a perfect candidate for ballroom dance lessons. More…
The Prescott Pride Center is pleased to welcome the Phoenix Metropolitan Men’s Chorus (PMMC) to Prescott for a two-hour Broadway revue that’s sure to be an audience-pleaser on Saturday, June 21st, 7 pm, at Crossroads Center at Prescott College (215 Garden Street, Prescott.) Details are in the print edition of The Pride Connection, and are coming online soon…
Viva Los Volunteers! National Volunteer Week (April 27th through May 3rd) gives us pause to reflect on the special contributions of our awesome Pride Center volunteers. We are so fortunate to have many seen and unseen volunteers who have been keeping our organization going strong for over seven years. Please know that we love and appreciate each and every one of you for donating your time and talents with such joy and enthusiasm. You’re the best!

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Ongoing / Monthly Events

Breakfast Club at Waffles ‘N More (1365 W. Iron Springs Road, Prescott) remains one of our most popular events! Sundays, May 18th / June 8th at 11 am. Please RSVP to (928) 443-8520 by the Friday before if you plan to attend. More…
Talk Time for Singles is an open forum discussion group for single women over 40 at the Prescott Pride Center. Tues, May 13th & 27th / June 10th & 24th • 3 to 5 pm. More…
Coffee Night. Thursdays, May 15th / June 19th • 7 pm (New Summer Hours) at the Pride Center More…
Parents’ Night Out: drop off the kids at the Pride Center and go out for some parental private time. Saturdays, May 17th / June 28th • 6 to 10 pm. More…
DiningOUT. May 22nd : Canton Dragon, 337 N. Montezuma St, Prescott. June 26th : Porky’s, 330 W. Gurley St, Prescott. Both nights at 6 pm. Please RSVP to (928) 443-8520 by the Tuesday before if you plan to attend. More…
Spanish Classes are moving - again! 1st and 2nd Thursday in May and June, starting at 6 pm and and returning to the Pride Center. More…
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

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
Men’s Movie Night is on hold untiil September. More…

Upcoming Events: June 2008

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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Calendar PDF

Download: May 2008 calendar PDF • June 2008 calendar PDF
(Requires the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe).

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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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