Our Values

Our values are the guiding tenets of the organization.

They are timeless, enduring, and intrinsically important. Our core values support the vision, shape the culture, and reflect our identity. Crucially, they reflect how we strive to go about our work and conduct ourselves.

Our commitment: We celebrate LGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities as we create a better world for everyone.

Pride

The empowered knowing, understanding, acceptance, and celebration of self and others.

Our commitment: We celebrate LGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities as we create a better world for everyone.

Our commitment: We leverage our power, networks, and resources to change the hearts and minds of others for the betterment of the LGBTQ+ community and our families.

Advocacy

The empathetic act of using one’s voice, privilege, power, and resources to enhance the quality of life for ourselves and others.

Our commitment: We leverage our power, networks, and resources to change the hearts and minds of others for the betterment of the LGBTQ+ community and our families.

Our commitment: We prioritize the presence, inclusion, and integration of perspectives and truths from all who share our purpose.

Diversity

The imperative to incorporate varied experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and beliefs of the most marginalized and oppressed people and communities.

Our commitment: We prioritize the presence, inclusion, and integration of perspectives and truths from all who share our purpose.

Our commitment: We advocate for the right to love and family.

Love

The affection, acceptance, and empathy for one another that moves us to action.

Our commitment: We advocate for the right to love and family.

Our commitment: We are outspoken & act on what is right even when faced with discomfort, criticism, or the possibility of being humbled by a mistake.

Courage

The act of living one’s truth and values while leaning into vulnerability, discomfort, and change.

Our commitment: We are outspoken & act on what is right even when faced with discomfort, criticism, or the possibility of being humbled by a mistake.

Our commitment: We understand and take action knowing that every person, family, and community must have what they uniquely require before equality can be achieved.

Equity

The acknowledgment that everyone can thrive when provided the unique resources they require as individuals, families, and communities.

Our commitment: We understand and take action knowing that every person, family, and community must have what they uniquely require before equality can be achieved.

Our commitment: We work with individuals and organizations that share similar values to create a larger impact on common objectives rooted in equity and equality.

Collaboration

The act of working in unity across different perspectives and experiences to achieve a common goal.

Our commitment: We work with individuals and organizations that share similar values to create a larger impact on common objectives rooted in equity and equality.

Our commitment: We work to ensure that everyone, especially members of the LGBTQ+ community, has the opportunity to experience the joy of family.

Joy

The feeling of present happiness that creates a sense of purpose and fulfilment.

Our commitment: We work to ensure that everyone, especially members of the LGBTQ+ community, has the opportunity to experience the joy of family.

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