The Spahr Center is Marin County’s only non-profit community agency devoted to serving, supporting and empowering the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and everyone in the county living with and affected by HIV. “Pride Month is a great point to consider how to better support the community by looking at the policies, training of staff and by being more visibly supportive with symbols like Pride flags-they mean a lot to the community,” said Adrian Shanker, executive director at The Spahr Center. Since its inception, Pride Month has transformed into a month of awareness, acknowledgment and celebration of the LGBTQ+ people on both the grand and small scale. It began in 1969 to honor the Stonewall Riots, which marked the start of the movement to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices against LGBTQ+ Americans. Pride Month is a national, month-long celebration in June of LGBTQ+ people, both across the United States and within individual communities. In Marin County and the Bay Area, Pride Month is a time to hoist high the rainbow flag, march in San Francisco’s Pride Parade, attend picnics and workshops, and celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members of the community.
