Pride in the Park for Rainbow Extravaganza
Press release from Two Feathers Native American Family Services:
Two Feathers Native American Family Services, a nonprofit in McKinleyville, CA, hosted the second annual Rainbow Extravaganza on June 25th at Pookey’s Park, Hoopa, CA. This event was the second pride event hosted by Two Feathers NAFS with collaboration from Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District teachers, Katie Hodges and Tina West, as well as Two Feathers staff Livey Ampudia, Charlena Trello, and Tai Parker.
The Rainbow Extravaganza is an event held during Pride month that aims to acknowledge the existence and resistance of our 2SLGBTQIA+ community and to learn more about resources and language, to foster community, and to experience queer joy. Tai Parker, Two Feathers Mental Health Clinician expressed, “the event was attended by approximately 50 participants and provided a wide array of resources and education. Space was created to build knowledge and community for our Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) community members.”
Representatives from many local organizations were also present in support of this event, including The Raven Project, Open Door (Trans Health Series), North Coast Rape Crisis Team, Queer Humboldt, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Redwood Coast Regional Center, Karuk Tribe (Division of Victim Assistance), Save California Salmon, Office of Clients’ Rights Advocacy Disability Rights California, Hoopa Elementary School Teachers, and United Indian Health Services.
About Two Feathers NAFS
Two Feathers NAFS is a local nonprofit in McKinleyville, CA, that employs mental health providers who are passionate about our Native American communities and reducing unnecessary suffering among Native American children and families living in Humboldt County. Two Feathers NAFS mission is to inspire healthy and balanced Native American communities in Humboldt County. To learn more, visit our website twofeathers-nafs.org.
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Was pride month June or July ? I’ve never been able to remember, i remember the rainbow warriors, they were way ahead of their time. They laid it all out there right on the track, crack me up . Was never concerned much about whos f’ in who but “F” on . It amazes me how many crazy people worry about this extra curricular activity, good exercise if you ask me, carry on.
Pride month is every month every year always… ❤️🧡💚💙💜🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🤘
I’m makin time goin out with your wife, low life- kid rock
Nascar and Kid Rock – it all makes sense now 🙂
I don’t get it. Maybe I’m just confused due to timing, the decade I was born in. I remember when I was little I would sometimes hear that being prideful is not necessarily a desirable characteristic. The connotation was that being prideful could sometimes be a driver of a person becoming detached from good judgement due to their self-excited state of mind and fixation on their self, even if they had done something great or were accomplished.
Another way that this would come up as a kid that I don’t know what to think of because I wasn’t raised with any religion was the 10 Commandments of Moses, wasn’t one of the commandments that people should not be full of pride or something. I’m not saying I follow all the 10 Commandments, I might have eyed my neighbors wife here and there and dabbled in the black arts of the Ouija Board once or twice as a kid, so i’m just making observations. I know people aren’t big on religions anymore anyway. People still wipe their ass though and say thank you for holding a door open so I wouldn’t think all ways of interacting have changed.
Good call! Pride is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church- the gravest kind, which threatens the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession or penitence. But then again I don’t think the Catholic Church has much pull with these folks. Lol!
Personally I could care less what people do in their spare time in private with other consenting adults. It’s all good and I’d rather have people loving each other than hating. And I get that declaring yourself, claiming ownership of your own identity can be a point of pride especially in some backwards places. But I never congratulate anybody for being gay. Or hetero. Or wife-swapping or whatever….that would be weird. Just everybody do your thing. Life is short. [edit] If you want to punish people then go find a good and valid reason….like not using their turn signal or using the express lane with 25 items- REAL violations!
Send them to the hills.
The Two Spirit tradition along with language and religion was once out lawed by the Black Robes and the other wasicus who came with the invaders. I’m glad Indigenous peoples have re- embraced their original traditions. Wasicus and waskashas can STFU. It does not concern you.
So I get if you feel you are the one of the letters or number combinations, I may not agree, but if that’s how you feel sure. The Asexual thing though? I mean that’s not a sex or a gender, that’s a form of reproduction. You can’t “feel” asexual, you have to actually be able to perform the act. Asexual means you can birth a clone of yourself pretty much on command. You can look up asexual reproduction if you think I’m wrong. I just want to know if people have honestly figured out how to do this? I mean was it a surgical procedure or were you born with a sort of super power? Curious minds would like to know….
It takes way less time and energy to be like huh, asexual? Weird, who cares though there’s literally a million other problems in the world.
I mean, I’d like to know. I could have my own soccer team if someone would let me in on the secret, me and my clones wouldn’t win a single game.
Gay people don’t procreate. It’s the number one reason why it’s supported by world economic forum, and the overpopulation critics.
this is sooooooo last month
Wow.. that’s alot of letters
They need mental health counseling on site..
A valuable organization doing important work.
Too bad they didn’t announce the event ahead of time (or that I missed it). I would have referred a couple friends to go.
Why is their a need to blatently show this to us? We’ve gotten the idea already. Too bad their pride isn’t quiet.
Humble rainbow warriors
They hate themselves and there lives. This makes them feel important. Simple as that.
Only offended at Gay Pride events but not Irish or Scottish?
Don’t look if it doesn’t interest you. No harm in folks enjoying other folks that share similar interests. “
Thank you Kym.
Your name pretty much says it all
Yeah, but did you like the video?
I think this one “says it all”
https://youtu.be/fQO02LhUvrw
OK good video.
Pride goeth before a fall.
The governments of industrialized nations are not ready to admit that their industries have spread huge amounts of chemicals across the landscape and into the water. They don’t have an alternative to their parasite style of existence on the earth that can still maintain the power structure that is in place. Modern chemical pollution and drugs will continue to damage the endocrine and other body systems of the population, but it effects fetus, infants, and the young the most. In the end, as other commenters have said, why tel the public that chemical pollution is destroying human body functions when the people who run this circus want a manageable population that is reduced in number. The way they see it, why not capitalize on the damage done from pollution by promoting the resulting health impacts as a beneficial trend and behavior. The politicians would rather make a new bathroom for your chemically misdevolped children than they would address the causes. Pollution is no joke and neither is the measurable fall in mental capability and intelligence in just a century.
Why is this old Canadian documentary now restricted on YouTube?
The truth is censored but you can still get all the bad stuff.
CBC – The Disappearing Male – 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBgalo7ZsAM
Georgia Guidestones had a bad day recently at least.