Tag: Spokane PRIDE

Spokane Pride kicks off today, featuring a two-day festival with five stages worth of entertainment, a safe zone for youth and 14 food trucks. 

The Interfaith Pride Service will be on June 7 at 7 p.m. at the McGinnity Room, 116 W. Pacific Ave.

At the 2016 Spokane PRIDE Interfaith Worship Service, held at the Spark Center, eight clergy from six different traditions — United Church of Christ, Jewish, New Thought, Unity, Buddhist and Disciples of Christ— spoke about this year’s Pride theme: From Silence to Celebration.

Spokane’s 24th Annual Pride Parade and Rainbow Festival showed an increase in representation of local faith communities, all of which, except for the Spokane Street Preachers (SSP), were open and affirming congregations and were present to participate in the celebration.

For 23 years, Spokane’s LGBTQ community have bravely taken to the streets in a march for inclusion and respect, and for 23 years there have been Christian groups in attendance who think that homosexuals and transgender people are living in sin.