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Dear OUTWORDS family,

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month! Preserving our priceless history is the very core of the work we do here at OUTWORDS. And this month, there's a new way for you to support that work...

On Monday October 11th, National Coming Out Day, we launch The Outwords Archive Membership Program!

OUTWORDS Members are a core group of committed supporters who support us on a monthly basis, ensuring year-round that this vital work will continue.

As a special Thank You, each new Member will be...

Dear OUTWORDS community,
It’s been a while since we sent a newsletter, and we have lots of news to share. But I want to just start by saying thank you. If you are reading this newsletter, you are part of OUTWORDS. You have sustained us and helped us grow over the past five years. Yes, OUTWORDS is five years old! Time flies when you’re having fun and preserving the essential history of the LGBTQIA community, in the voices of those who created our community from scratch.
You have made this...

Hi OUTWORDS friends,

Our next online event is coming up! Join us this coming Monday, August 9, at 5pm Pacific Time (8pm Eastern) for:

Leave No One Behind:
2SLGBTQ+ Reflections on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Monday, August 9, 20215pm PT/8pm ET

Event is free and open to the public; register at: bit.ly/leavenoone

Panelists include OUTWORDS interviewees Crisosto Apache, Marcus Arana, and Sharon Day. The conversation will be moderated by drag queen and activist Landa Lakes.

More...

Our Give OUT Day fundraising campaign, "We've Got Your Back," has just three days left. As of the writing of this email, we're at 82% of our goal - THANK YOU for helping us get this far!
Will you help us reach our goal? Here to say a few words about the importance of OUTWORDS' mission is Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy: "Every generation of activists needs role models."
Hear more from Gus in this video testifying to the power of OUTWORDS' work:With our "We've Got Your Back" campaign,...

In the middle of Pride Month came the welcome news that Juneteenth will be observed from this year forward as a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
For those of us in the LGBTQ+ community, Juneteenth will serve a constant reminder that there can be no true pride unless and until our entire nation becomes an equitable place for all its inhabitants: those who lived here for centuries before the arrival of White colonialists and conquerors; those who were...

Hi OUTWORDS friends,

We're just 24 hours from our next online event! We hope to see you TOMORROW, Thursday, June 10:

Hope Is Timeless: OUTWORDS and Hopelab Celebrate Pride

Thursday, June 10, 2021
5pm PT/8pm ET
Event is free and open to the public; register at: bit.ly/hopeistimeless

OUTWORDS is honored to partner with Hopelab and the milk project on a special webinar featuring three extraordinary LGBTQ+ elders with strong connections to LGBTQ+ youth, to explore the future of the queer community in...

Hi OUTWORDS friends,

Our next online event is coming up! Join us next week on Wednesday, May 26, at 5pm Pacific Time (8pm Eastern) for:

Event is free and open to the public; join us at: bit.ly/schoolsoutpanel

Four LGBTQ+ teachers and administrators come together for a conversation on representation and resilience at school — an arena of incredible importance to queer youth. What might educators learn from their students? What challenges do they face...

Hi OUTWORDS friends,

Just a quick reminder that this event is tomorrow, on Wednesday, May 12, at 5pm Pacific Time (8pm Eastern):

Event is free & open to the public; register on Zoom at: bit.ly/outwordsart

Intersección is a virtual panel with LA-based artists, sharing on the intersectionality of their personal experiences being Latinx and LGBTQ in the Los Angeles art scene for the last 40 years.

Presented by The Outwords Archive...

Dear OUTWORDS community,

After the past year-plus, do we dare to hope? More folks are vaccinated, and the weather is warming up. As we tenderly emerge from the darkness of the past year, we are also aware that there is no “going back” to the way things were. If this is a difficult reality to accept, it also offers promise; undeniable issues rose to the surface during the pandemic that require our attention. Moving forward, may we continue to interrogate our individual and...

Dear friends,

OUTWORDS is excited to invite you to a private virtual screening of the award-winning new

documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won! The film will be available to screen online from April 5-12. There also will be a live Q&A about the film on April 8th at 5 pm PT.

Described as “fascinating” (Hollywood Reporter), “riveting” (The Queer Review) and “one...