Flathead agency provides LGBTQ+ folx with community
By: Jaurdyn Johnson
and last updated 2021-05-22 19:17:20-04
KALISPELL â With Pride Month just days away, non-profit agency Glacier Queer Alliance is providing LGBTQ+ folx a safe space in the Flathead for all gender identities and sexual orientations - the first of its kind for the valley.
âI ve lived in a lot of other areas and they re typically in a community that has the size of the Flathead Valley and has some sort of LGBTQ-focused organization,â said Bryan Bebb, executive director of Glacier Queer Alliance.
Which is why Bebb and others, decided to form GQA, to give folx of the LGBTQ+ community a sense of safety and pride. Folx is a gender-neutral term used to include those who are gender-queer, two-spirit, transgender or agender.
Flathead nonprofit provides LGBTQ+ folx with community
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Montana faith groups, advocates show LGBTQ support
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Montana faith groups, advocates show LGBTQ support
By TRISTAN SCOTTApril 11, 2021 GMT
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) Shortly after the deadly 2016 mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Courtney VonLindern, who is gay and non-binary, was walking through downtown Missoula in a state of dejection when they spotted a pride flag displayed in the window of the United Methodist Church, a symbol of support to the LGBTQ community during a period of intense vulnerability and pain.
“It occurred to me that there was an opportunity for churches and faith-based communities to take a supportive stance on LGBTQ issues, and to create inclusive LGBTQ spaces in theology at a really scary time,” VonLindern, who is now pursuing their Master of Divinity at the Denver-based Iliff School of Theology but was born and raised in Whitefish, recalled. “Receiving that message in that moment was really powerful knowing that you can be queer and Christian, that these things can coexist and that
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) â Shortly after the deadly 2016 mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Courtney VonLindern, who is gay and non-binary, was walking through downtown Missoula in a state of dejection when they spotted a pride flag displayed in the window of the United Methodist Church, a symbol of support to the LGBTQ community during a period of intense vulnerability and pain.
âIt occurred to me that there was an opportunity for churches and faith-based communities to take a supportive stance on LGBTQ issues, and to create inclusive LGBTQ spaces in theology at a really scary time,â VonLindern, who is now pursuing their Master of Divinity at the Denver-based Iliff School of Theology but was born and raised in Whitefish, recalled. âReceiving that message in that moment was really powerful â knowing that you can be queer and Christian, that these things can coexist and that God and the Bible does affirm you in your identity.â