OUR PRIDE is a global arts, education, and storytelling platform dedicated to advancing dignity, cultural memory, and human rights through LGBTQ+ voices and lived experience.

 

We bring together artists, writers, educators, youth, and community partners to explore how culture and creativity can strengthen movements, preserve history, and imagine more just futures.

 

OUR PRIDE is designed to be a public, accessible home for programs that use storytelling, collaboration, and creative practice to support real-world impact — across generations and across borders.

 

 

 

What We Do

 

 

OUR PRIDE supports initiatives that center culture as a force for dignity and change. Our work spans publishing, youth media, global partnerships, and collaborative arts programs that uplift voices often marginalized, overlooked, or at risk of erasure.

 

Through books, storytelling platforms, festivals, and educational initiatives, we help transform personal stories into shared memory — and shared memory into collective action.

 

 

 

Our Programs

 

 

OUR PRIDE is home to several interconnected initiatives, including:

 

• Rainbow Advocacy Press — Publishing books and storytelling projects that amplify LGBTQ+ voices and advance dignity and human rights.

• Voices of Solidarity — A publication and storytelling platform sharing poetry, reflection, and global perspectives.

• OUR PRIDE Youth Media Challenge — Empowering young people to tell their own stories through creative media.

• Flag50 — A global arts and education initiative exploring the cultural and human rights legacy of the rainbow flag.

• Africa Pride & Global Partnerships — Collaborative work supporting artists, organizers, and community leaders across regions.

 

 

Each program is distinct, yet connected by shared values and purpose.

 

 

 

Our Structure

 

 

OUR PRIDE is powered by Rainbow Advocacy, a nonprofit organization committed to advancing dignity and human rights through culture, education, and partnership.

 

Rainbow Advocacy provides the organizational, legal, and governance foundation that allows OUR PRIDE programs to operate responsibly, sustainably, and in alignment with nonprofit best practices. This structure ensures that creative work is supported with care, accountability, and long-term vision.

 

In short:

 

• OUR PRIDE is the public-facing platform and program ecosystem

• Rainbow Advocacy is the nonprofit organization behind it

 

 

 

 

Why This Matters

 

 

At a time when LGBTQ+ histories are being challenged, erased, or rewritten, OUR PRIDE exists to protect memory, elevate truth, and support those shaping the future.

 

We believe culture is not decoration — it is infrastructure.

And storytelling is not secondary — it is essential.

 

 

 

A Note on Values

 

 

All OUR PRIDE initiatives are guided by principles of dignity, care, collaboration, and respect for lived experience. Our work is grounded in human rights and shaped by the communities we serve.