PFLAG Delaware

Delaware Ohio Pride

PFLAG National The nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of PFLAG Delaware. Our last community meeting will be on July 9th. We thank the community for its support of PFLAG Delaware and ask that you continue to support the LGBTQ+ community by donating to PFLAG national at PFLAG.org ,by supporting other PFLAG chapters in the central Ohio area, or by supporting Delaware Ohio Pride. We will be taking down our FB page in the near future. It has been our honor to serve the local community.

PFLAG National The nation's largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

Pride will be here before we know it and PFLAG Delaware needs your help. We are looking for volunteers to help us staff our tent. Consider spending a couple hours sharing with people what PFLAG is and helping us get donations so we can continue to be a presence in Delaware. Message us if you can any time between 10 -4, Saturday June 6.

June at The Strand is all about conversation, connection, and stories that matter. Join us every Tuesday for Delaware Community Conversations: Meaningful Movies, a month‑long series exploring gender issues in our society through film and dialogue.

Fighting For Our Pride - PFLAG | PFLAG National LGBTQ+ people are valued, loved, and deserve the freedom to thrive. Through the Fighting for Our Pride campaign, PFLAG National is mobilizing advocates across the country to make sure lawmakers at every level hear our message loud and clear—because liberty and love are inseparable.

👠 Something Powerful Is Coming to Marion… 👠

We’re stepping into something big this fall. Mark your calendars for October 9th, Marion’s very first Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® event is on the way!!

This impactful event brings our community together to raise awareness about domestic violence and show support for survivors and their families. Right at the heart of Marion, where our agency sewed its roots, and continues to serve survivors and their families almost 50 years later!

Stay tuned for more details are coming soon!

In the meantime, we need your help to get ready! For the entire month of May, we’re collecting gently used heels, especially in larger sizes, to make this event a success.

Drop-off locations are listed on the flyer below. If you have any questions, please reach out to Nikki at [email protected] or Courtney at [email protected]

PFLAG Delaware wants you

AT our next Community Meeting nex Thursday May 14, we will be discussing, amongst other things, theDelaware Pride event and building our chapter board. This year we want to have a larger presence and impact in Delaware but we can't do it without you. Posistion descriptions will be available at our May meeting, and some of the positions we are loking to fill include treasurer, fundraising, membership, advocacy and more. We do ask board members to be chapter members with yearly $40 membership dues. Come to our community meeting, or message us with any questions.

In honor of Trans+ History Week, we wanted to highlight a few trans icons whose lives and courage helped shape history:

🌟 Marsha P. Johnson — a Black trans activist and key figure in the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation. Her advocacy for homeless LGBTQ+ youth and marginalized q***r communities changed lives.

🌟 Sylvia Rivera — a Latina trans activist who fought fiercely for transgender rights, housing, and dignity for people often pushed to the margins.

🌟 Christine Jorgensen — one of the first Americans widely known for transitioning publicly, helping bring visibility to transgender people in the 1950s.

🌟 Lou Sullivan — a pioneering trans man who challenged harmful assumptions about gender and sexuality while creating community for future generations.

🌟 Miss Major Griffin-Gracy — a longtime activist and survivor who spent decades advocating for incarcerated trans women and trans people of color.

🌟 Pauli Murray — a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer, Episcopal priest, and writer whose work influenced both racial justice and gender equality movements. Many historians and LGBTQ+ scholars recognize Murray’s writings about gender identity and lived experience as deeply connected to trans and nonbinary history.

🌟 Lili Elbe — one of the earliest known recipients of gender-affirming surgeries in the 1930s.

And these are only a few names among countless others whose stories were erased, hidden, ignored, or never fully recorded.

Trans history is human history.

And understanding that history matters — especially at a time when transgender people are so often misunderstood, politicized, or targeted.

Because when we learn history honestly, we begin to understand something important:

Trans people are not new.
Trans people are not “confused.”
Trans people have always been here.

And they always will be. 🏳️‍⚧️