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Faith for Pride is Back in 2024!

In 2023, Faith for Pride had an exceptional year of joy, engagement, and partnership. Now, we are bringing back this effort in 2024. The need for people of faith to mobilize is more critical than ever. Join our movement to counter anti-LGBTQ+ extremism during Pride Month.

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Faith for Pride 2023 is over, but the fight goes on.

Alongside 124 co-sponsors spanning diverse traditions, Faith for Pride supporters hosted over 50 events in 19 states, proving that people of faith can be powerful instruments of change when it comes to LGBTQ+ justice. But the fight for equality is far from over.

Faith for Pride is back for its fourth year in 2024. Visit the Faith for Pride 2024 landing page to find out how you can get involved. See below for Faith for Pride 2023.

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Faith for Pride on NPR

Our movement is gaining momentum. Faith for Pride was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, including an interview with Interfaith Alliance’s President and CEO Rev. Paul Raushenbush.

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LGBTQ+ rights are under attack, and faith communities are ready to fight back. Organize a #Faith4Pride event and join the moral chorus.

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This Pride Month, we are inviting people from every tradition and background to join together to participate in Faith for Pride: an annual month-long effort to organize and push back against anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, fight anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and support grassroots organizations that work with LGBTQ+ communities.

Our goal is to bring people together to demonstrate that congregations and communities across faith and place vehemently oppose the bills that threaten the lives and livelihoods of our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and neighbors. Together, we can organize and mobilize against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and hateful rhetoric that threaten the lives of LGBTQ+ people. This June and beyond, we must build an interfaith movement that fights for the rights and safety of the LGBTQ+ community.

In state legislatures across the country, leaders are introducing, debating, and enacting targeted bills shaped by national right-wing Christian organizations that would drastically limit the freedoms of LGBTQ+ people. So far this year, over 540 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures. Forty-five laws targeting LGBTQ+ people have been enacted, including 13 laws banning gender-affirming care, three requiring or allowing misgendering of transgender students, and three laws creating a license to discriminate.

Through extremist rhetoric and religious messaging, there is a movement that seeks to prevent LGBTQ+ people from accessing essential medical care, discussing their identities in schools, and more. But across the country, people of faith are fighting back.

Religion is being used as an excuse for denying LGBTQ+ rights, particularly in state legislation. But they represent an extreme minority of religious people in America. The majority has to get loud and get organized to rally support for LGBTQ+ rights this June and year-round. There are so many ways to engage, both in June and year-round:

Host a Faith for Pride Event. By hosting a Faith for Pride event, you are raising your voice as a person of faith against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and for the inherent dignity and worth of LGBTQ+ people. Ask leaders in your faith community to dedicate a service to demonstrating that people of faith, including your group or congregation, vehemently oppose bills and rhetoric that threaten our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and neighbors. If you yourself are a faith leader, use your platform to spread a message of love, equality, and justice.

Learn about anti-LGBTQ+ extremism and how to fight against it. Too often, Christian nationalist ideology is used as a cover for anti-LGBTQ+, extremism, and discrimination. Take some time this Pride month to learn about where and how anti-LGBTQ+ extremism is showing up in your state and community and what LGBTQ+-led organizations – including faith-inspired LGBTQ organizations are doing and show up for and with them.

Mobilize to strike down anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Under the guise of religious freedom, the Religious Right and their elected allies are pushing legislation targeting LGBTQ+ children, parents, and educators. You can organize a media campaign or show up in person to let your legislators and community know that you stand for full rights for LGBTQ people and organize to create ways to show up in meaningful ways in June and in the months to come.

Faithful Action During Pride Month

So far this year, over 540 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures to restrict the use of pronouns and discussion of sexuality and gender in schools, deny gender-affirming care, limit trans athletes’ participation in sports, and denying service to LGBTQ+ individuals under the guise of religious freedom

These bills threaten the lives of our friends, family, and neighbors based on their identities, create a hostile environment for LGBTQ+ people, and give permission to the rising violent threats that plague the LGBTQ+ community.

As people of faith, it’s vital that we fight back against these heinous efforts and voice our support for our LGBTQ+ siblings’ right to live with full dignity and safety.

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Is your organization interested in helping promote Faith for Pride? Join us as a co-sponsor! By becoming a co-sponsor, you will help promote this effort by sharing information with your network and encouraging them to host events.

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