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Queer Idaho: “This is my home too.”

By Erin Sellers ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● October 2, 2024

48,000 queer people call Idaho their home. As the state legislature ramps up the passage of policies targeting queer Idahoans, they are preparing to defend their place in their state.

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Hey EWU, where’s the Pride in that?

By Judy Rohrer ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● July 15, 2024

Over the past three years EWU has undermined 2SLGBTQ+ academic and student support programs/centers. Where’s the Pride in that?

Spokane’s rainbow past

By Holly VanVoorhis & Pascal Bostic ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● June 11, 2024

Pride History and Remembrance exhibit showcases 2SLGBTQ+ history in Spokane

How to stay safe and have fun at Pride!

By Erin Sellers ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● June 7, 2024

We talked to community leaders and event organizers for quick tips to ensure you have the best Pride possible.

‘We’re here. We’re not going anywhere.’

By Erin Sellers ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● June 6, 2024

Hours after getting a fresh coat of paint, the Pride mural downtown was vandalized again. But the queer community and their allies are rallying around the flag, which is still bright on the pavement of Spokane Falls Blvd.

The traveling anti-queer pastor Sean Feucht announces lawsuit against Spokane

By Aaron Hedge ● Faith & Politics ● June 5, 2024

During a recent Spokane visit, Feucht preached on a bridge, continued his anti-queer rhetoric about Pride month and prepared to drop a lawsuit against the city for their 2023 denouncement of then-Mayor Woodward

Share your queer love letters with RANGE and Spokane

By Erin Sellers ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● June 5, 2024

Share a love letter to your partner, your family (chosen or otherwise), your community or something else that brings you queer joy this Pride season.

Copycats vandalize South Perry Pride crosswalk

By Erin Sellers ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● May 31, 2024

This most recent incident of vandalism came less than a week after vandals set fire to the rainbow-flag-painted intersection in front of Riverfront Park on May 16.

‘Do you remember Mr. K [asking you to say] Yas Queen?’

By Aaron Hedge ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● May 20, 2024

For 3 years, students thrived in Jacob Knight’s 5th-grade classroom at Brentwood Elementary in Mead. When he came out as gay, complaints started rolling in. Less than a year later, following two district investigations and Knight’s increasing anxiety in the classroom, the district paid him half a year’s salary to resign and not sue.

‘It was called vandalism, but it was hate.’

By Erin Sellers ● LGBTQIA2S+ ● May 17, 2024

Destruction of local Pride murals escalating as vandals used flammable chemicals to light downtown rainbow intersection ablaze. ‘The violence is escalating,’ local politicians said.