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This Just In...

Three great parties coming your way! Each event not only provides for fun social occasions, but also gives you and your friends multiple opportunities to bring home souvenirs and find great gifts—all while supporting Equality House! More details below:

Can you throw a "Not To Be Missed" Party, or just grill a hot dog? We all love to get together with our own circle of friends. Now you can add an new level of meaning to just such an afternoon or evening by turning your next get together into a Circle of Friends fundraising house party. The concept is simple. Invite you own group of friends over for a dinner, cocktails, or dessert party and ask your guest to donate what they would have paid at a local restaurant for a similar experience to Equality House. You can make the get together as laid back or as formal as you wish. You set the date and time. Gay Grassroots will be happy to provide you with invitations, loan you decorations, supply LGBT information materials, and even a speaker if you desire. This is your chance to support Equality House with your own special flair. Please contact us ASAP, let's cover the whole area with circles of friends.

Currently in the Works...

LGBT Resource Center
We know that many LGBT persons have limited access to LGBT information. This may be due to public libraries and schools having limited materials or placing unreasonable internet filtering systems in place, persons being uncomfortable utilizing LGBT materials in a public setting, persons living in a home where it is unsafe to use materials with LGBT content, etc. Gay Grassroots is currently seeking donations of LGBT resource materials, both printed and audio visual, to be housed at Equality House where they may be used for research and educational purposes openly and freely. If you have materials you feel would be an asset to our collection please e-mail us.

Gay Grassroots YouTube Channel
Another resource we are working to put into place is our own local YouTube channel where we can post our own “It Gets Better” videos to help give hope and encouragement to anyone who is suffering the harms of bullying. If you would like to film one of these messages please e-mail us.

LGBT History Project of Northwest Florida
Historic preservation and heritage conservation is a endeavor that seeks to collect, preserve, conserve, and protect objects, artifacts, and records

of historic significance. The greater Pensacola LGBT Community has a very colorful and important, though not widely known, history that merits saving. Gay Grassroots of Northwest Florida wants to make sure that this history is not lost. Our goal is to not only preserve the past but to make it more widely known and appreciated by future generations. Our collective story should become better known, understood, and shared. As we kick off this project, we are looking to collect more photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, publications, etc., that can add context to our local LGBT history. If you have any items that you wish to donate or loan to this project, please contact us. Additionally, we have purchased a video camera and are working to record the personal stories of LGBT persons with ties to Northwest Florida, via video/audio taping. If you would be interested in having your own story recorded, please let us know by e-mailing us.

Who We Are, What We Do, and You

Glad you found our internet home! Gay Grassroots, the Equality House, and PensacolaPRIDE all have ways that you can connect with your community, and proceed on the road toward full UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT, EQUALITY, and INCLUSION of all LGBT persons. Please get involved today through a variety of different ways:

ABOUT - Read about our mission, history, structure, and leadership.

MEMBERSHIP - Help support Equality House, our community center.

EVENTS - Join us for all sorts of fun happenings throughout the month such as book club, 50 plus coffee chat, movie nights, potluck dinners, game night, volunteer training, holiday events, and more!

ADVOCACY - Just like coming out is life long journey, not a quick one stop single event, so is securing and maintaining our civil rights. Find out about our advocacy goals and where you can help.

NEWSLETTER - RainbowBlades is our monthly newsletter, and is chock full of local, national, and international news; hot topics; commentaries; and pages dedicated to current LGBT issues.

PensacolaPRIDE - PensacolaPRIDE moves to a spring festival! Watch for details of this April 2012 event to be announced soon!

EQUALITY HOUSE - Read about our LGBT Community Center.

HEALTH - Knowing that the LGBT community is disproportionally hit by many health issues, Gay Grassroots works to provide health related education and services that are culturally sensitive to the LGBT community.

CONTACT - Visit, write, email, join our mailing list, follow us on twitter, and friend us on facebook!

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