Safe Zone Update Flyer

The History of Pride

Chris Lawson, she/her I’ve been asked why there are Pride events and why we recognize Pride Month. I had a generalidea of the history but wanted to look into it further.Early groups, such as the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, began organizing afterWorld War II. These groups are the roots of the modern …

May Safe Zone Update

Education is a part of PFLAG’s tagline. We advocate, we educate and we support. The more that we can educate our community to this “new” information, the better we feel that the community will see those in the LGBTQ community as something valuable that needs to be embraced with love. Leading with Love is PFLAG’s …

Letter From Our President

PFLAG Is Celebrating Two Full Years As A Chapter This Month We began our journey in 2021 and were awarded our chapter in May of 2022. And the past few months have thrown us into full advocacy mode as we were dealing with new school board members trying to add a policy that would harm …

Area Pride Events

May 18th @ 12:00pm: Prince William Pride-9201 Center St., Manassas, VA June 2nd @ 12:00pm: Culpepper Pride-Mountain Run Winery June 2nd @ 1:00pm: Loudoun Pride-Claude Moore Park (Sterling) June 3rd @ 3:00pm: DC Pride June 9th @ 4:00pm: Rockingham Pride-4300 Captain Yancey Rd, Elkton VA June 22nd @ 10:00am: Pride Picnic-Berkeley Springs State Park June …

Update on the Proposed Transgender Policy by the Shenandoah County School Board

Much has happened since our last update regarding the discriminatory anti-transgender policy that was proposed and introduced by school board member Gloria Carlineo at the January 11, 2024 school board meeting.

Research Worthy of Note

Fascinating research just summarized in the New York Times upends more of what is widely believed about sex traits.

Our Community Sees Us Now

For the past two years, PFLAG Woodstock has been building clout in our community. We are starting to see those within the community now reach out to us to include our resources to fill a niche that they didn’t feel prepared to fill.

Calling All Volunteers!

This Pride season, we've been invited to attend and set up an informational table at multiple events, and we need your help to attend and grow our presence in the community! Your willingness to help at one or two of these events will help us meet the growing demand for our information.