PFLAG Madison

Say it with us: You 👏 Are 👏 Not 👏 Alone! 👏 With over 350 chapters nationwide, PFLAG has your back.

Find a chapter near you at pflag.org/find 📌🏳️‍🌈

This is a devastating but powerful story, please take a read and consider how you an connect with our work of uplifting people of trans experience and see how you can speak out against legislative overreach and hurtful laws.

After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her?

“A lot of America,” her mother answered.

The life and death of 16-year-old May Pollard provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

Read more: nbcnews.to/4bLuksT

As a new ally, it’s your worst nightmare: Something you said or did hurt your LGBTQ+ loved one—and you genuinely didn’t mean to! Maybe you intended to say something nice and have no idea why it impacted them in that way.

➡️ Instead of getting defensive, try:
• Acknowledging (rather than minimizing) the impact.
• Remembering that a gentle correction is not a personal attack, but an opportunity for you to learn how to do better.
• Apologizing in a way that takes responsibility for the hurt that you caused.

Watch the PFLAG Academy Online Learning Session “Be Kind, Rewind: Understanding Your Role in Building Inclusion” to learn more: pflag.org/resource/pao-bekindrewindrecording 🏳️‍🌈

We’re PFLAG proud to partner with our friends at American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and were honored to join their Human Rights Luncheon at the AFT Convention 2026: Fighting for a Better Life for All.

As the Trump administration continues its attacks on vulnerable communities, AFT and civil rights leaders stressed the importance of working-class people building solidarity together to create a better life for future generations.

“We got all that we need, and we got all that we have, and we are going to win this fight,” AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick C. Ingram said. “We need to speak up and speak the truth about human rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQIA and African American and Latino and Asian rights. They are all deserving of the same rights.”

Read on at aft.org/news/civil-rights-leaders-fire-delegates-fight-authoritarianism

Your community is waiting for you! ☀️ Every month, our PFLAG Connects: Communities meet for safe, moderated, virtual meetings to seek guidance, ask questions, and learn from others who have been through similar experiences. Our current community offerings gather people of Latino, Black/African American, AANHPI (Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) backgrounds, as well as military families, families with gender-diverse loved ones, dads, and grandparents!

Oh, and did we mention that these meetings are free? 👀

So what are you waiting for? Find your community at pflag.org/connects-communities! 💖

As we close out Nonbinary Awareness Week, we want to give one more special shout-out to our newly updated resource, "Guide to Being an Ally to Trans and Nonbinary People," for tools and guidance on how to be an active ally to trans and nonbinary people! Learn more at pflag.org/TransNonbinaryAllyGuide 🩵🩷🤍💛🤍💜🖤

Is it woke, or is it just common sense? Kathy Halbrooks, a PFLAG National board member, slams Tennessee State Rep. Mark Cochran whose biased opinions and false claims against LGBTQ+ people have helped Tennessee rank #1 on CNBC’s list of worst states to live in 2026.

Read on at tennessean.com/story/opinion/readers/2026/07/16/mark-cochran-gender-affirming-care-tennessee-lgbtq-drag-bill/90936016007

It’s International Drag Day!!! 🌈✨💗 Going above and beyond the gender binary, this centuries-old art form is a powerful and provocative display of LGBTQ+ expression. Legends and icons of drag herstory—William Dorsey Swann, Marsha P Johnson, Willi Ninja, Paris Dupree, Dorian Corey, Divine, Crystal LaBeija, RuPaul, just to name a few—not only cultivated and expanded the medium to glamorous new heights, but also pushed the needle for greater acceptance for all LGBTQ+ people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Who are your fav drag performers? Shout ‘em out in the comments below! 👇