Celebrating Pride Month
This year, our theme for Pride Month is Empowering Communities, Advancing Justice, informed by the topics for the 2024 YWCA Racial Justice Challenge, providing an opportunity to explore how women have advanced equity for each topic of the Racial Justice Challenge and what YWCA is doing to advance equity in communities across America.
Sue Sanders
For over forty years, British LGBT rights activist Sue Sanders has specialized in challenging oppression in the public and voluntary sectors. She created The Classroom, which has lesson plans that ‘usualise’ diverse LGBT people for all ages across the curriculum. Learn more
Janet Mock
Janet Mock is a transgender rights advocate, writer, and media producer — and is the first openly transgender woman of color to write a television episode and secure a major studio deal with her hit show Pose. Learn more
Pragati Singh
Pragati Singh, an Indian medical doctor and public health official and activist, identifies as grey asexual and is known for her research and work in the Indian asexual community. Learn more
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin was the first openly gay person to be elected to both chambers of Congress and has served as the junior Senator from Wisconsin since 2013. Baldwin has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, access to healthcare, and student debt relief. Learn more
Kim Coco Iwamoto
Kim Coco Iwamoto, a Hawaiian politicianm is a trans woman. Her 2006 election made her, at that time, the highest ranking openly transgender elected official in the U.S. & the first openly transgender official to win statewide office in Hawaii. Learn more
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is known internationally for her work to confront all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. As a second wave Black Feminist, Davis has consistently worked to dismantle oppression faced by the Black community, women, and the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more
Yasmin Benoit
Yasmin Benoit is an alternative fashion model, an Asexual and Aromantic activist from the United Kingdom, and creator of the This Is What Asexual Looks Like movement. Learn more
Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim
Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim a Nigerian film producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker creates stories of Nigeria's marginalized LGBTQ+ communities and has worked to give voice to Nigeria's LGBTQ+ community through her film production company, Hashtag Media House. Learn more