Jamestown Pride started in December of 2019, with our first meeting to talk about a Pride festival in Jamestown, NY that focuses on our community and celebrating the families that have made Chautauqua County their home. Since then, we have gone through a lot of planning, meetings, cancellation, coming out of lockdown, a new plan, and finally to having our first ever Pride in 2021!
This fundraiser is for our second Pride Festival, happening in June of 2022. Planning the upcoming first event has drawn out so many volunteers, organizations, and communities from across the region to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community! And so we will continue this yearly, bringing people to our region and showing how much support we give people every day!
(Photo: Jamestown Pride Steering Committee Members celebrating the raising of the Pride Flag on National Coming Out day in October, 2020.)
Along with our Pride Festival, Jamestown Pride has been involved in other educational events and initiatives. We held a National Coming Out Day event in 2020 with the Robert H. Jackson Ctr. and the Fenton History Ctr. Further, we helped the Fenton History Ctr. start an archive of the history of the LGBTQIA+ history in Chautauqua County.
Jamestown Pride is dedicated to celebration, education, and advocacy for and with the LGBTQIA+ community in Jamestown and the Chautauqua Region. Thanks for stopping at the page!
(Photo: Opening of the Fenton History Center's exhibit Protest and Pride, with Gregory Rabb a longtime activist, Noah Goodling the Director of the Fenton History Center, Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist, Jamestown Pride Coordinator Sheridan A. Smnith, and Emily Van Wey from Prevention Works.)
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