THE LARGEST INDIGENOUS LGBTQIA+ PRIDE CELEBRATION
Donate
Your contribution will launch our movement forward as we bring LGBTQ+ inclusive events to the most rural and urban areas of the Navajo Nation.
Volunteer
Our Pride Volunteers are the lifeblood of our organization. From our hard-working volunteers to our staff, each person is leading this movement.
Navajo COVID Relief
VIRTUAL ARTSHOW
Your online information resource for all things related to our fight on the Navajo Nation against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visit our virtual art gallery showcasing Indigenous LGBTQ+ Artists from around the globe.
PRIDE YOUTH LEADERSHIP
In response to requests from American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth, Western States Center partnered with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, the Center for Native American Youth, and the Native Youth Leadership Alliance to develop a resource toolkit for and with young Native leaders.
Indigenizing Love is written to support Native youth, tribal communities, Two-Spirit and Native LGBTQIA+ collectives, community leaders, and partners who intend to better understand and support our Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ communities.
PRIDE VISION & MISSION
We will honor & celebrate our LGBTQIA+ relatives & reaffirm the sacredness of their identities.
There are countless socio-economic & educational disparities that impact our community. Diné Pride will reintroduce traditional knowledge & teachings that kept our LGBTQIA+ relatives safe & revered - the way our culture recognized at one point in history.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Alray Nelson
Executive Director & Co-Founder
Long before the forced removal of our children to Indian boarding schools, to the Stonewall riots, the Civil Rights movement for equal rights, and our fight to recognize marriage equality on the Navajo Nation -
we are reclaiming our right to exist.
We must remember that it was our sovereign Tribal Nations that once recognized & protected our existence as LGBTQIA+ people since time immemorial.
Our goal is to protect our relatives from Hate.
We are unapologetic, fierce,
& resilient GAY warriors.
We Are organized & will hold all leaders accountable.
We are forever Sacred.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Curtis Berry | Steamboat, AZ
Brennen Yonnie | Tohatchi, NM
Tommy Tsosie | Window Rock, AZ
Shania Skyy | Gila River Indian Community
Jessica Shutiva | Albuquerque, NM
Mariah Lizer | St. Michaels, AZ
Leslie Lewinsky | San Carlos Apache Nation
Bo Goode | San Carlos Apache Nation
Eddie George | Phoenix, AZ
Vivian Begay | Rock Point, AZ
Shawn Allison | Window Rock, AZ
