Upcoming Pride Planning!

Hello Folks!

The Oregon Queer Youth Summit and Prom were both great successes! Thanks to all who attended, ran workshops, volunteered and danced it up this weekend.

Next up at SMYRC: Pride Planning! Portland’s LGBTQ Pride Festival and Parade are happening on June 19th and 20th this year and so it’s time to start planning for SMYRC’s involvement.

The next meeting for the Teen Oasis booth (a youth run, youth only booth at Pride) is going to be on Friday, May 21st at 6pm. So far the ideas generated are to turn the booth into a time machine and focus on queer histories and queer futures (along with food, Apples to Apples, and Gender Gumby).

The first official meeting for Pride Planning is going to be on Saturday, May 22nd at 5pm. We need to decide on some t-shirt designs, what we want the SMYRC float to look like and more. Bring your ideas!

If you aren’t able to make it, feel free to send me an email and I’ll make sure to add your Pride ideas to the list.