2021 Digital Pride Guide
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Equality with Wisdom.<br />
Happy <strong>Pride</strong>! The past year we have been<br />
continuing to work on visibility within<br />
the FM community and the Red River<br />
Valley. We have also worked at solidifying<br />
the structure of the group itself to<br />
insure its longevity. We have monthly<br />
organizational meetings and happy<br />
hour socials, as well as seasonal dances.<br />
Several book clubs meet monthly. As we<br />
grow, we plan to have a variety of social<br />
opportunities for our members.<br />
We participate in and help fund the<br />
annual ND LBGTQ+ Summit in Mandan.<br />
LGBTQ+ folks from across the state have<br />
been gathering in person and over Zoom<br />
to talk about community, legislative, and<br />
personal issues that face us in North<br />
Dakota.<br />
During the COVID pandemic, we prepared<br />
a plan to educate agencies and providers<br />
in the community about the needs of<br />
LGBT seniors, to network with agencies<br />
and providers to ensure that LGBTQ+<br />
elders’ medical, housing, and living needs<br />
are met, and to network with similar<br />
organizations around the country. We will<br />
begin by meeting with long-term care<br />
facilities (assisted living facilities and<br />
nursing homes) and providers concerning<br />
status of conditions and policies related<br />
to LGBTQ+ client/patients, and offering<br />
assistance in education.<br />
In November 2017, the Red River<br />
Rainbow Seniors began an oral history<br />
project, “Breaking Barriers: Harvesting<br />
LGBTQ+ Stories from the Northern Plains,”<br />
focusing on older LGBTQ+ people and<br />
their allies. Over 120 people have been<br />
interviewed. The original digital files and<br />
the transcriptions of the oral histories<br />
will be available in the North Dakota<br />
State University Archives. You can contact<br />
us about Breaking Barriers by emailing<br />
RRRS or contacting the oral history project<br />
directly at: redriverrainboworalhistory@<br />
gmail.com or check out it out on<br />
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/<br />
BreakingBarriersLGBTQ/<br />
Once again during <strong>2021</strong> FM <strong>Pride</strong>, we’ll<br />
have a booth on Saturday at <strong>Pride</strong> in the<br />
Park and hope you will stop and chat.<br />
Red River Rainbow Seniors is an<br />
organization dedicated to providing<br />
advocacy, education, support, and fun<br />
to the elder LGBTQ+ community in<br />
the Red River Valley.<br />
RRRainbowSeniors@gmail.com<br />
https://www.facebook.com/<br />
RedRiverRainbowSeniors<br />
22<br />
AUGUST 12-15
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