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Avi Roque - PFLAG Votes 2024: Love Votes
This November, our love votes. 🗳️🌈
You can be a PFLAG voter like Avi Roque by sharing why your love votes and by taking action like checking your registration, getting educated on the issues, and organizing your friends and family to vote, too!
Learn more at pflag.org/LoveVotes
Joslyn DeFreece - PFLAG Votes 2024: Love Votes
Everyone deserves the freedom to learn, thrive, and be themselves. This election, make sure your love votes for policies and candidates that ensure LGBTQ+ people can live their fullest, happiest lives.�🫶🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Learn more at pflag.org/LoveVotes
A big PFLAG Thank you to Joslyn DeFreece for taking the pledge!
PFLAG Votes 2024: Love Votes
"When we protect the most vulnerable in this country, everybody wins." - Ilana Glazer. 🗳️🫶🌈
Learn more and take the PFLAG Voter Pledge at pflag.org/LoveVotes
Lisa Ann Walter - PFLAG Votes 2024: Love Votes
“This year, my love votes for LGBTQ+ rights and also the rights of everybody else.” - Lisa Ann Walter 🫶🌈
Learn more about how you can make sure you’re registered to vote and how you can take the PFLAG Voter Pledge at: pflag.org/LoveVotes
Rasheed Newson - PFLAG Votes 2024
From now through Election Day, you can be a PFLAG voter by sharing the reasons your love votes and by taking action like checking your registration, getting educated on the issues, and organizing your friends and family to vote, too!
Learn more at pflag.org/LoveVotes 🗳️🌈
Generation Next
In 2023, queer Latinx filmmaker, Nick Oceano Armendariz, collaborated with three young queer filmmakers on our film, “Pieces of Me”. While on set, Nick interviewed the three filmmakers about what they believed to be the most pressing issues for their generation and beyond.
Watch the short film, "Generation Next", and "Pieces of Me" on our website at: pflag.org/PiecesOfMe
Music as a Force for Healing
For many, music has the power to heal and to help them through the good and bad times. With her status as a country music queen being reaffirmed on Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, it’s only natural that the PFLAG team takes some time to talk about Dolly Parton, and her music’s impact on the LGBTQ+ Community.
Pieces of Me (2024)
"Pieces of Me" tells the story of Joslyn DeFreece, a successful writer, actress, daughter, friend and transgender activist. The film explores Joslyn’s journey as a kid growing up in a conservative midwestern family, and how she developed the pieces necessary to find self-acceptance, purpose, and sisterhood. 🏳️⚧️
Learn more at: https://pflag.org/PiecesOfMe
Written, Directed, and Produced by Nick Oceano-Armendariz
Executive Producer: Joslyn DeFreece
#TDOV #TransJoy #TransgenderDayofVisibility
Pieces of Me Trailer
PREMIERING TODAY, 5:30 PM ET 🎬🎥🏳️⚧️
We'll be premiering "Pieces of Me" later today, in celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility. The film—directed, produced, and written by Nick Oceano-Armendariz—centers on the life of New York-based artist and transgender activist Joslyn DeFreece and creates a filmic collage about the growth and healing that comes from art, love, family, community, and courage.
Tune in today at 5:30 PM ET / 2:30 PM PT right here on Facebook!
Learn more at: pflag.org/PiecesOfMe
Experiencing Gender Euphoria This TDOV
Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is recognized on March 31st each year. Right now, it would be easy to give in to the fear caused by misinformation about what it means to be transgender and nonbinary, instead of celebrating trans visibility and the infinite ways people can experience gender and fully explore who they are. So this year, PFLAG National will celebrate TDOV with the release of a new film, “Pieces of Me,” in which New York-based artist and transgender activist Joslyn DeFreece and director/producer Nick Oceano explore how a kid growing up in a conservative midwestern family finds self-acceptance, purpose, and sisterhood.
Join us on Thursday, March 28 at 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT for our monthly episode of Something to Talk About Live! where we will discuss “Navigating the media minefield: supporting gender expansive youth with confidence,” by Tina Neal which appeared on Advocate.com. We are excited to welcome PIECES OF ME subject/Executive Producer Joslyn DeFreece and Co-Producer Jake McClain to the conversation!
For Some, Coming Out is Self-Care
The importance of coming out (when safe!) cannot be overstated. And for many people, coming out as LGBTQ+ is a matter of self-care, as it is the only way to ensure that they will be seen and affirmed in who they are.
This month, we are uplifting our Something To Talk About Live episode from October, 2023, where we discussed “Coming out isn’t actually over. Here’s why.,” by David Oliver which appeared in USA Today. We were joined by members of the PFLAG staff for this conversation!
Black History Should be Celebrated All Year Long
As we head into Black History Month, at a time when books written by Black authors are being removed from shelves and classes about Black history are being removed from school curriculums, finding joy seems difficult.
Join us on Thursday, January 25 at 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT for our monthly episode of Something to Talk About Live! where we will discuss “Black Joy Is For Black Queer Youth, Too,” by Amaris Ramey which appeared on parents.com. We are excited to welcome Sikivu Hutchinson, an American feminist, novelist, playwright and director, as our guest
Have You Thought About Year-End Giving?
With the winter holidays in full swing, many people use this time to consider ways to give back to their communities, make charitable donations, and to volunteer with organizations that focus on issues that they care about. For many LGBTQ+ organizations like PFLAG, events like Give Out Day, Giving Tuesday, and year-end-giving campaigns make up an integral part of how funds are raised to do life-saving work and achieve our mission.
Join us Thursday, December 7th at 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT for our monthly episode of Something to Talk About Live! where we will discuss “Why do they give? Donors speak about what moves them and how they plan end-of-year donations,” by Thailia Beaty which appeared on apnews.com.
We are excited to welcome Maggie Ardiente, Director of Development at PFLAG National, and other members of the PFLAG National staff to join us to talk about the impact that donors have on the work that PFLAG is able to do each year. We’ll also discuss the why, when, how, and where the PFLAG National team donates our time, talent, and treasure!
Learn more at https://www.straightforequality.org/STTALive.
PFLAGers know that LGBTQ+ stories change hearts and minds, which is why we're #PFLAGProud to share the trailer of We Live Here: The Midwest. Breaking barriers in the heart of America. Stream #WeLiveHereHulu December 6 on Hulu.
First Lady Jill Biden
"At its core, PFLAG is about family and family is love." 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ We're so honored to have had First Lady Dr. Jill Biden give opening remarks at Learning With Love: The 2023 PFLAG National Convention!
Visit youtube.com/pflag to watch the full opening session!
#LeadingWithLove #WeSayGay #WeSayTrans #WeSayBi #PFLAGProud #ProtectTransKids
November is Military Family Appreciation Month
November is an important month for military families, including Military Family Appreciation Month and Veteran’s Day on November 11. At PFLAG National, we support our military families year round through our PFLAG Connects: Military Community, created in partnership with our friends at the Modern Military Association of America to support service members and their LGBTQ+ loved ones.
Join us live Thursday, November 2nd at 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT for our monthly episode of Something to Talk About Live! where we will discuss “Most of the Military Not Tracking Number of Families Relocated Due to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws,” by Thomas Novelly and Konstantin Toropin which appeared on Military.com.
We are excited to welcome Cathy Marcello, Assistant Director of Programs at the Modern Military Association of America, and Becca Stewart, primary author of the PFLAG National publication At Ease: Support for Military Families with LGBTQ+ Children and Teens, as our guests.
Learning With Love: The 2023 PFLAG National Convention Plenary Session
Join us on Saturday, October 21st at 12:40pm ET / 9:40am PT for our convention plenary session: Courageous Love in Trans Healthcare!
Every person, transgender or not, deserves the medically necessary healthcare they need when they need it. Yet, in many states, trans people and their families, doctors, and health providers have to fight for this basic human right.
We’re honored to have Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, President of the American Medical Association. Writer and activist, Charlotte Clymer, will moderate the conversation about the courageous love necessary to support trans healthcare in the face of disinformation.
Learn more at: https://pflag.org/events/learningwithlove2023/