Claremore Pride

10/04/2026

Q***r Oklahomans: your story belongs in this conversation. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Too many of us have searched for a therapist and wondered, “Will they get it?”, “Will I be safe here?”, “Will I have to explain who I am before I can talk about why I came?” Some of us gave up looking.

The Things We Carry is a photo and film storytelling advocacy project by Drue Day Counseling & Consulting, LLC and HRPR Creative. It centers q***r and 2SLGBTQIA+ voices on mental health, the barriers we face getting care in Oklahoma, and what it takes to keep going anyway.

We all carry something. A memory. A loss. A fear. A hope. A person. We want to hear about yours, in your words.

✔️ You don't need to be a client
✔️ You don't need a diagnosis or a label
✔️ You can stay anonymous. Faces can be blurred and names changed
✔️ You can withdraw at any point before publication

You just need a story.

📝 Read the consent form and sign up here: https://bit.ly/4i2vC6c

Questions? Email [email protected]

Please share this with someone who should be heard. 💛

***rOklahoma ***r — with Rhys Harper.

09/25/2026

Thank you Claremore saga club for inviting us to join you in supporting our Claremore zebras! Happy Homecoming! 🦓 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈

09/10/2026

Movie Night & Strawberry Social 🍿🍓

Friday, September 18 at 6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Grab your friends and join us for an evening of food, laughter, fellowship, and a movie with a whole lot of heart!

This month, we’re hitting the road with three fabulous friends headed for Hollywood whose plans take an unexpected detour in a small town. Along the way, a little glamour, a lot of friendship, and some unexpected kindness begin to change the people they meet, and maybe our travelers, too.

We’ll turn St. Paul’s into our own little movie theater for the evening, complete with a concession-stand supper featuring hot dogs (with homemade chili and all the fixings), nachos, popcorn, movie candy, and Vida’s Road Trip Snack Mix.

And because no visit to our particular small town would be complete without one, we’ll finish things off with our own Strawberry Social, featuring strawberry shortcake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. 🍓

Come hungry. Come comfortable. Come ready to laugh.

There’s no cost, and you don’t need to be a member of St. Paul’s, or even particularly religious. Students, LGBTQ+ folks, friends, allies, and anyone looking for a welcoming place to spend an evening are invited.

Free food. Free movie. Good people.
Sometimes the best stops aren’t on the itinerary.

09/03/2026

Unfortunately, we have to cancel our event planned for this Saturday night.

Due to a lack of communication and some last-minute circumstances with the venue, we were not given the information we needed to move forward with the event as planned. Unfortunately, at this point, there isn’t enough time to make the necessary arrangements for this Saturday.

I know some of you were really looking forward to this, and I’m truly sorry. 💔 I was excited about it too!

That being said, this is not the end of it. ❤️ Claremore Pride is committed to bringing more free, fun, inclusive events to our community, and we are already looking at other opportunities and venues for future events.
We would love it if more local businesses wanted to collaborate.
Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, volunteered, or simply shown up for what we’re trying to create. It means more than you know.

We’ll be back with something even better. 🌈✨

Keep an eye on the page for upcoming events and announcements!

08/29/2026

Thank you Women Empowered for Democracy for having us as a vendor for the voices of women conference! Such a great lineup of speakers, we are leaving inspired for the future to come! 💙

08/07/2026

06/28/2026

Reading over these makes me a little teary eyed 🥹
Thank you to my sweet assistant Avy for bringing my idea to life.

A lot of people think Pride is simply a celebration of sexual orientation. But to us, it’s something much bigger.

Pride is about building a world where people don’t have to be afraid to be themselves.

It’s about choosing kindness over cruelty, understanding over assumptions, and community over division.

You don’t have to agree on everything to believe that every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. We can have different backgrounds, beliefs, and life experiences while still choosing compassion.

When people feel safe, accepted, and valued, our entire community becomes stronger.

That’s what Pride represents to us.

Not exclusion. Not division.

Hope. Belonging. Humanity. Community.

Because at the end of the day, the world could always use a little more kindness, and there’s room enough for all of us.

06/28/2026

What a day. 💜🌈

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to every single person who made Claremore PrideFest 2026 such an incredible success.

Whether you attended, volunteered, performed, sponsored, donated, set up a booth, shared our posts, or simply cheered us on, you helped create a day filled with love, acceptance, and community. Because of you, our festival was a place where people could come together, be themselves, make new friends, and celebrate exactly who they are.

To our volunteers, entertainers, vendors, sponsors, community partners, security team, and everyone who worked behind the scenes: thank you for your time, your energy, and your belief in our mission. None of this would have been possible without you.

Seeing so many smiling faces, families, allies, and LGBTQ+ community members gathered together reminds us why we do this. Together, we’re building a stronger, more connected Claremore where everyone belongs.

We can’t wait to share photos and videos from the day, so keep an eye on our page! If you took pictures, we’d love for you to share them in the comments or tag Claremore Pride so we can celebrate this amazing day together.

From all of us at Claremore Pride: thank you for making history with us once again. We are already looking forward to what we can build together next year.

With gratitude,
The Claremore Pride Team 🏳️‍🌈💜