Pride Frisco

Pride Frisco Established in 2021, Pride Frisco is the primary nonprofit LGBTQ-resource center in Frisco serving North Texans.

We provide year-round support via social and educational programming, professional resources, scholarships, and strategic collaborations.

The Oaklawn Public Library on Cedar Springs in the heart of Dallas' LGBTQIA+ community carries one of the largest q***r ...
01/19/2026

The Oaklawn Public Library on Cedar Springs in the heart of Dallas' LGBTQIA+ community carries one of the largest q***r collections in the world and has been a safe and affirming space for diversity and inclusion for decades. Simply put, it is an essential part of Dallas' q***r history -- and now its future needs your support! No matter where you are in the DFW area, in Texas, or elsewhere, lend your support and call the Dallas city council.

Arlington Council betrayed themselves and assaulted the LGBTQIA+ community on the fear and threat from an unhinged, twic...
12/11/2025

Arlington Council betrayed themselves and assaulted the LGBTQIA+ community on the fear and threat from an unhinged, twice impeached, convicted felon (34 counts) and pe*****le 1,200 miles away.

Remember the FIFA World Cup bid? We do. What a complete disgrace and flat out lie. They won't be achieving their human rights index of 100 anytime soon.

Shame on you. Residents of Arlington deserve city leadership that will honor their commitments, protect marginalized communities, and not cave in the face of bigoted threats. LGBTQIA+ people deserve so much better than this.

LGBTQIA+ U.S. Veterans past and present, we love you and are forever indebted to you. Your life and sacrifices are sacre...
11/12/2025

LGBTQIA+ U.S. Veterans past and present, we love you and are forever indebted to you. Your life and sacrifices are sacred. We are so very proud of you! On this Veterans Day and every day, we are grateful for your service.

Our Bodies Our Livesby & other LGBTQ+ groups📍Union Coffee 🗺️ 3705 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas🗓️ Wednesday, 6/18/2025⏰ 6:0...
06/18/2025

Our Bodies Our Lives
by & other LGBTQ+ groups
📍Union Coffee
🗺️ 3705 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas
🗓️ Wednesday, 6/18/2025
⏰ 6:00 PM CT

🏳️‍⚧️ SCOTUS' ruling in US v. Skrmetti today upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for youth--a devastating blow to our trans community and everyone who loves them.

The fight continues. Join us as we gather as one, united community tonight to draw strength from each other, hear from community leaders, obtain resources including mental health services, and stay connected in our collective fight for trans justice!

🥁Off the sidewalk into the street!🔥People everywhere in this country are getting off the sidewalk into the street to:‼️ ...
03/30/2025

🥁Off the sidewalk into the street!🔥

People everywhere in this country are getting off the sidewalk into the street to:

‼️ Make our voices heard
‼️ Fight back against oppression
‼️ Defend our freedoms & civil liberties

We will never be silent nor silenced
We will always rise up to defend democracy
We will ACTUP and FIGHT BACK

Today we commemorate the 38th anniversary of by showing up and fighting back! More work to be done. Every day counts. Every little bit counts.

Glad to be in community against an oligarchy takeover of our democratic institutions and civil liberties.

♥️ 4 Ways to GIVE 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1️⃣ Make a tax-deductible recurring or one-time financial contribution to a 501(c)(3) public ...
12/04/2024

♥️ 4 Ways to GIVE 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

1️⃣ Make a tax-deductible recurring or one-time financial contribution to a 501(c)(3) public charity

2️⃣ Help us fundraise. Host a fundraising event. Connect us with funders who may want to power our work.

3️⃣ Donate your Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) and/or other appreciated assets such as stocks or real estate as part of your legacy giving and/or on an ad-hoc basis

4️⃣ Share how you are making a difference: choose an outlet that’s most comfortable / suitable for your situation. You can always give anonymously.

Regardless of your choice of giving, we greatly appreciate your generosity that sustains our life-impacting work.

Certainly, we know there are many more ways you can give, including volunteering your time, energy, and expertise. We need you in all the ways you’re able and willing to give.

ℹ️ Visit our bio or link below for more information:
https://www.pridefrisco.org/give

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ A Year of IMPACT5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ LGBTQIA+ North Texans annually served8️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ eligible CEs: continuing educat...
12/03/2024

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ A Year of IMPACT

5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ LGBTQIA+ North Texans annually served

8️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ eligible CEs: continuing educational credits provided through the Yale Mental Health Initiative, which provided free, LGBTQ-affirmative training in CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to mental health professionals

7️⃣5️⃣➕ Registered participants in our Inaugural LGBTQ Mental Health Forum (first in Collin County)

3️⃣0️⃣➕ Trans and nonbinary individuals assisted in ID document corrections in our Inaugural Name and Gender Marker Correction Clinic in partnership with the Dallas LGBT Bar Association

▶️ And we’re just getting started.

⏩️ Help us accelerate progress by supporting our and Year-end giving campaign, visit our bio or online:

https://www.pridefrisco.org/give

🔺YOUR IMPACT: With your help, we will be able to sustain these cost-free or low-cost affirmative programs, increase our ...
12/03/2024

🔺YOUR IMPACT: With your help, we will be able to sustain these cost-free or low-cost affirmative programs, increase our service offerings, and help even more LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Support our work by visiting our bio or
https://www.pridefrisco.org/give

👉🏽 SUSTAINABILITY: Provide capacity and infrastructural support to ensure our sustainability

👉🏽 EDUCATION: Provide educational programs from trusted sources that update our community on fast-changing policies

👉🏽 LEGAL AID: Provide legal aid programs that assist in filing for passports, name change orders, and with estate planning

👉🏽 SAFE SPACE: Provide safe spaces (virtual and in-person) for community-building events and programs

👉🏽 HEALTH & WELLNESS: Provide health and wellness programs in affirmative primary and mental health care

👉🏽 BASIC NEEDS: Provide social services such as emergent, temporary housing, transportation, hygiene products

♥️ Today is GivingTuesday, the start to a month-long empowerment campaign that underscores the impact each of us can hav...
12/03/2024

♥️ Today is GivingTuesday, the start to a month-long empowerment campaign that underscores the impact each of us can have on the lives of LGBTQIA+ North Texans, many of whom we consider our chosen family.

I’m not going to sugarcoat it—The road ahead will be tough. We will need all of us, each of us, to do our part to uplift and sustain each other.

🏳️‍🌈 From its inception, Pride Frisco has been emphatic in our mission to be/come a resource center supporting LGBTQIA+ individuals in urban-adjacent communities of Collin and Denton counties.

📍 Yet, our data consistently demonstrate that the need for authentic connections in safe spaces, for trusted professional resources, and for impactful programming and collaborations with community partners extend well beyond Frisco.

🏳️‍⚧️ Notably, demands for greater access to affirmative health and wellness care, particularly mental health and primary care, and for other social services such as legal and advisory supports have risen sharply among our trans and nonbinary communities in the wake of last month’s election outcomes and an increasingly hostile anti-trans political landscape nationwide.

Today and during December, as you reflect upon 2024 and our journey ahead, consider how your giving empowers local, grassroot nonprofits such as Pride Frisco to impact LGBTQIA+ North Texans in tangible, ordinary ways—so ordinary that we often take them for granted.

$100 = 1 month access to primary care with an affirming doctor
$150 = 1 hour of LGBTQ-competent mental health counseling
$300 = 1 passport book + card for trans & nonbinary individuals

🙏 It is a tremendous privilege for us to serve our community in this capacity and during this time in our collective history. Thank you for joining us and sustaining this important work.

🤝 Together, we can—and we will—do hard things.

See bio to participate & support our work or visit:

https://www.pridefrisco.org/give

PRIDE FRISCO CO-FOUNDER AND MENTAL HEALTH PARTNER RECEIVE TXSAIGE AWARDS AT 2024 TEXAS COUNSELING ASSOCIATION PROFESSION...
11/27/2024

PRIDE FRISCO CO-FOUNDER AND MENTAL HEALTH PARTNER RECEIVE TXSAIGE AWARDS AT 2024 TEXAS COUNSELING ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL GROWTH CONFERENCE IN DALLAS, TX

TxSAIGE SOGIE Champion Award recipient, Jon Culpepper; Michael DeVoll Award recipient, Brian Kennedy

FRISCO, TX, November 27, 2024—Pride Frisco proudly announces its Co-Founder, Jon L. Culpepper, was the recipient of the Texas Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (Txsaige Division of TCA) SOGIE Champion Award at the 2024 Texas Counseling Association's (TCA) Professional Growth Conference in Dallas, Texas, during which TxSAIGE was named TCA’s 2024 Outstanding Division. The award is presented annually to a lay person or professional counselor outside of TCA who is an advocate for counseling within the SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and (Gender) Expression) community.

“The SOGIE Champion Award is a way for TxSAIGE to promote those working to secure LGBTQIA+ equality and mental health access across Texas,” Michael Lesher, TxSAIGE Director. Past recipients include former Houston-based Montrose Center CEO, Dr. Ann Robison. “Destigmatizing and increasing access to affirmative, competent mental health services to LGBTQIA+ and other intersectional, underserved communities is life-preserving work, and I am deeply grateful to TxSAIGE for this tremendous honor and their leadership in this field,” Jon Culpepper, Pride Frisco Co-Founder, Board VP and Treasurer.

TxSAIGE also presented its Michael DeVoll Award of Excellence in Counseling to Brian Kennedy, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) at Room for Change, a Dallas-based mental health provider to whom Pride Frisco refers community members who seek affirmative counseling services. The award’s namesake, Michael DeVoll, was a founding leader of TxSAIGE and past president of TCA. As a leader in the counseling profession, Michael founded a camp for q***r teens and small groups for the teen’s parents, was an advocate for SOGIE legislative issues, and an avid educator of LGBTQIA+ issues.

“As a therapist and mental health educator, my passion is not only to provide a space where q***r individuals feel seen, heard, and validated, but also to advocate for their right to be treated with dignity and respect in every aspect of their lives. I believe in the power of affirmative therapy not only to heal but also to empower LGBTQ+ people to challenge societal norms, dismantle the stigma they face, and embrace their true selves. It’s about creating a refuge where clients can thrive and advocating for the broader change needed to ensure their voices are uplifted and their rights are protected,” Brian Kennedy, LPC, Room for Change.

About Pride Frisco

Established in 2021, Pride Frisco is the primary nonprofit LGBTQ-resource organization in Frisco, Texas, that provides year-round support through social and educational programming, professional resources, scholarships, and strategic collaborations.

Our vision is to establish a Pride Center: a brick-and-mortar hub addressing the unmet need for a safe space offering year-round, life-affirming resources for the LGBTQIA+ community of Frisco and North Texas.

For more information visit www.pridefrisco.org or follow on social media.

🏳️‍⚧️ Deeply moving Trans Day of Remembrance exhibition, LOST FACES, honoring the beautiful lives of transgender and gen...
11/04/2024

🏳️‍⚧️ Deeply moving Trans Day of Remembrance exhibition, LOST FACES, honoring the beautiful lives of transgender and gender diverse community members ❤️‍🩹

Thank you, Gordy Carmona of Equality Texas for all your efforts, also featuring the incredible artwork of Gabriel Mendez .sketches!

🫂 Pride Frisco is honored to join community partners , , , and others in this sacred place. We are always stronger together. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💪

❤️‍🩹 We hold those who have perished, known and unknown, past and present, deep in our hearts.

🏳️‍⚧️ LOST FACES: Trans Day of Remembrance Exhibition Grand Opening 🗓️ Sun, Nov 3 ⏰ 4-7 PM📍 The Space, 1412 Main St., Da...
11/03/2024

🏳️‍⚧️ LOST FACES: Trans Day of Remembrance Exhibition Grand Opening

🗓️ Sun, Nov 3 ⏰ 4-7 PM
📍 The Space, 1412 Main St., Dallas
🔗 Registration link in our LinkTree or below:

https://secure.everyaction.com/y1F6pwSa1kiUNh0U9Gylsw2

Join BTAC, Nu Trans Movement, Equality Texas, HRC and other community partners for LOST FACES: a Trans Day of Remembrance exhibition honoring the memory of our trans and gender expansive siblings lost to violence over the past 10 years in Texas.

The exhibit will run from Nov. 1st - 23rd and will be open to the public on Thursdays & Fridays from 4-7p or by appointment the rest of the week. To schedule a tour of the exhibition, please email [email protected].

Accessibility Information:

The gallery’s front entrance is wheelchair accessible to the lower-level area of the gallery.

A portion of the grand opening event will take place in the lower-level area, but the gallery space where the exhibit will be displayed is up a small set of stairs.

To access the upper-level of the gallery, attendees can use the side entrance, which is wheelchair accessible.
However, if attendees are already inside on the lower-level, they will have to exit the building to access the side entrance.

Public Transportation & Parking:

1) There are two parking garages near SPACE at Adolphus Tower.
A)1515 Elm St Dallas, TX 75201
B)1600 Pacific Ave Dallas, TX 75201
2)The gallery is within walking distance from the Akard DART Station.

COVID precautions:
1) Stay home if you are not feeling well or have recently been in contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19.
2) Face mask will be available if you need one.

Address

5570 FM 423 Suite 250-2109
Frisco, TX
75036

Telephone

+19726656452

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Pride Frisco posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Pride Frisco:

Shortcuts

Share

Category