Methow Pride is Community.

Why Pride?

Pride is about the right to be unapologetically yourself. Sharing your voice. Breaking stereotypes. Expressing creatively. Building models for rural thriving. 

Methow Pride fosters connection, belonging, and thriving for LGBTQIA+ beings in the Methow Valley through free programming and community events.

Mission

Vision

Methow Pride is working toward creating a rural haven where LGBTQIA+ individuals believe in their creative expression, share their voices, build thriving intergenerational relationships, and find rural belonging.  We ultimately aim to keep LGBTQIA+ people present, safe, and alive in this rural and natural space.

  • We embrace and enable joy as an act of resistance and resilience.

  • We build responsive and collaborative relationships with communities that are rooted in trust and multidirectional learning.

  • We promote queer visibility through inclusive spaces, history holding, and traditions that reflect our community.

  • We work intentionally to enhance safety, care, and creativity.

  • We believe in the power of expansiveness and curiosity to enable non-judgement, radical empathy, and love for all.

Values

Volunteer Leadership Team

Kelly Edwards, Co-Founder

“We created a series of events during Pride Month to celebrate the fullness of our human experience and to create inclusive, welcoming spaces for all in our community.  We want folks of all ages to come together.  We need to listen when folks tell us they do not feel safe or able to be themselves in certain environments.  We need to do better.”

Maddie Morgan, Communications Lead

“I grew up in a community without much queer representation which made it hard to find safe spaces or even people to connect to and relate with. The opportunity to work for Methow Pride has given me the opportunity to try and create safe spaces for other young people, in the ways I would have hoped to see in the smaller rural communities I love so dearly.”

Celia Gottlieb, Organizational Development

“I moved to the Methow in large part because of the queer community here. It’s rare to find yourself in a rural place rich with gender diverse individuals, women holding hands, and queer consciousness raising in the coffee shop. I believe that rurality and nature are inherently queer. Methow Pride gives individuals the opportunity to discover and explore that truth on their terms by creating entry points to queer community and learning, ultimately demonstrating that you do not need to live in the Metro to be LGBTQIA+.”

We need your help!

This organization would not be possible without the help and support of community volunteers. Interest in joining our force? Email: info@methowpride.com