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Lubbock LGBTQ+ History Project
What’s it like living in Lubbock? That’s a popular question for most of us in the LGBTQ+ community. We tend to answer that question in several ways: we talk about our geography, politics, culture, and strength.
Help us add your story/memory to our history project.
Redesigning Resistance: Works on LGBTQ Rights in Lubbock
June 22, 2024
12 PM-8 PM | Studio D at CASP
FREE! PRIDE Prize Packet with raffle tickets for $2
Help us encourage the City of Lubbock to declare June as PRIDE Month.
- Since 1999 the nation has recognized PRIDE Month. It is time for our city leaders to step and do the same. As their constituents our expectations are high.
- Join us in our campaign to hold our leaders accountable to all citizens of Lubbock.
We want to hear from you.
- The OUTwest Lubbock Blog page is called "Living Here".
- Highlight our community stories, experiences, and lives told in first-person accounts from the South Plains of Texas.
- Sharing our stories makes the invisible, visible.
- With visibility comes PRIDE in ourselves and each other.
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - #PRIDEProclamation: Letter-Writing Party
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Film Screening
Firehouse Theater at LHUCA, 511 Ave. K, Lubbock, TX
Tickets are required!
FREE tickets available at Eventbrite
National LGBTQ+ Elders Day
With PRIDE month (June) only a few weeks away, today, we remember and recognize those who have come before us. We would not be here today as the virtual community center if it were not for those who took a chance and took a stand to dedicate themselves to operating the only Community Outreach Center here in Lubbock for the LGBT community.
Lubbock LGBTQ community to raise funds to petition mayor, city council to declare June Pride Month
LUBBOCK, Texas — OUTwest Lubbock, a South Plains community center for LGBTQ people announced it is raising financial support through GoFundMe for a letter-writing campaign.
Community groups again ask Lubbock city council to recognize June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month
Lubbock Election Season is HERE!
There is plenty on the ballot this year.
*Mayor
*City Council Representative
There are 190,131 registered voters in Lubbock County as of 04/17/24. Are you one of them? Need to check your status, check your mail-in deadline, and/or check your polling location. Visit votetexas.org today!
Lubbock & the South Plains in the Spotlight
- Lubbock PRIDE
- Gay rights activists: Fight is only just getting started
- Gay in Lubbock: Activist group rates Lubbock zero for gay equality, locals see it better
- "Chilly Climate" for GLBTQ on Texas Tech University Campus
- Driving Equality - See what advocates had to say about life in Lubbock
- South Plains College Student Organization SPeCtra
- City Council PRIDE Proclamation - Protest
State News
National News
- HRC - Human Rights Campaign
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