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PFLAG San Francisco Helping families understand, support, and advocate for their LGBTQ+ loved ones.
🫶 Support group every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Where: Online.

Support meetings are on the second Tuesday of each month
When: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Please contact us to attend

10/21/2026

The biggest button in our collection is blank, and that’s on purpose. 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy International Pronouns Day! To fill in that blank, you have to ask, and then listen.

If your kid, grandkid, or friend shares new pronouns with you, you’ll probably slip up at first. Correct yourself, say sorry, and keep going. Practicing out loud, in the car or the shower, helps more than you’d think.

What would your button say? Drop your pronouns in the comments, and send this to someone who’s learning alongside a loved one. 👇

No one is born knowing all the answers. Join other parents at our free virtual Support Group every 2nd Tuesday, 7–9 PM PT. Register at the link in our bio. 🏳️‍🌈

Same fight, different generation. 🏳️‍🌈On Thursday, Oct. 29, Mere Abrams, LCSW, and Janna Barkin join us for a Special Ed...
10/21/2026

Same fight, different generation. 🏳️‍🌈

On Thursday, Oct. 29, Mere Abrams, LCSW, and Janna Barkin join us for a Special Education Session on how shifting cultural attitudes, social movements, and political climates have shaped LGBTQ+ people and their families across generations.

Through personal stories and history, they’ll trace how feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, language, identity, and access to affirming care have changed, where we’ve made progress, and what still needs work. Then we’ll talk about how to make room for evolving identities and show up as meaningful allies today.

→ Thursday, Oct. 29
→ 7 PM PT
→ Virtual and free

Send this to the person who taught you what allyship looks like, or to someone just starting to figure it out. No one is born knowing all the answers.

Register at the link in our bio. 💛

10/20/2026

We support all transgender witches… Yes, all of them. 🔮

Spooky season is here, and apparently some people are worried about trans folks in pointy hats. We are not worried. Trans and nonbinary people belong in every coven, classroom, and family, no matter which way their broom leans. 🏳️‍⚧️

Send this to the witchiest trans person you know, or to the parent who would fly across town for them.

10/18/2026

In 1957, the federal government fired Frank Kameny (he/him) for being gay. Last October, the FBI fired a trainee over a Pride flag on his desk. History has a way of repeating itself. 🏳️‍🌈

Kameny was a Harvard-trained astronomer at the U.S. Army Map Service, one of thousands of LGBTQ+ federal workers pushed out during the Lavender Scare. He took his case to the Supreme Court. When the justices refused to hear it, he co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington and, in 1965, organized the first gay rights picket outside the White House.

This time the targets have new names. That FBI trainee is now suing the bureau. The VA has banned Pride flags across its facilities. And the government is asking the Supreme Court to let it discharge trans troops who are still serving. The idea behind all of it is the one Kameny fought: that LGBTQ+ people are unfit to serve.

This LGBTQ History Month, send this to someone who thinks the Lavender Scare is over.

Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the Ramaytush Ohlone people, the original peoples of the San Francisco Penin...
10/12/2026

Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the Ramaytush Ohlone people, the original peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula, and Indigenous communities everywhere. 🪶

Two-Spirit people and Indigenous LGBTQ+ relatives have always been part of their communities. Here in the Bay, Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) held the first Two-Spirit powwow in 2012.

PFLAG National Connects: Two-Spirit & Indigenous Circle gives families of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer loved ones a place to talk and learn. It meets virtually on the first Wednesday of every month at 6 PM PT, led by Native and Indigenous peer facilitators. It’s free, and you don’t need to belong to a chapter.

10/12/2026

Matthew Shepard (he/him) died 28 years ago today. He was a 21 year old student in Laramie, Wyoming who was killed for being gay. 🕯️

His parents, Judy (she/her) and Dennis Shepard (he/him), turned their grief into a lifelong mission to build a world where no one suffers what their son did.

On the anniversary of his death his story asks the same question. Do we let hate decide, or love? Share this so more people say his name.

10/11/2026

Happy National Coming Out Day!! 📣🏳️‍🌈

Coming out is such a personal process, it can be a huge life changing moment or incredibly mundane; no two journeys look the same.

National Coming Out Day was started in 1988 by activists Robert Eichberg (he/him) and Jean O’Leary (she/her) on October 11, the anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington for Le***an and Gay Rights. They believed that once people realize they already know and love someone LGBTQ+, fear has a harder time taking hold.

38 years later, coming out is easier for some of our community but not the entire community. For trans and nonbinary people, it can be just as risky as it was in 1988 - sometimes riskier!

As we celebrate today, we’d love to hear from you 👋
Whether you came out, someone came out to you, or you’re still in the closet, we’d love to hear your story.
You can share using the link in our bio.

You can stay anonymous, and with your permission, we’ll gather the stories and share them with our community to help others feel recognized and seen.

10/10/2026

When someone comes out to you, start by listening. 🏳️‍🌈

Our board president Rob Costic (he/him) and volunteer Devin Caliboso (he/him) joined ABC7 ahead of National Coming Out Day to talk about what support looks like.

Rob’s advice: skip the judgment, ask what support the person needs, and save the big questions for later.

Send this to someone who might be the first person a loved one tells.

If you need a space to process, consider coming to one of our support groups. Parents and families who’ve been there meet on the first Tuesday of the month from 7 to 9 PM PT. It’s free and virtual, and the link is in our bio.

Sally Ride (she/her) went to space twice. Most of the world learned about Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years, fr...
10/08/2026

Sally Ride (she/her) went to space twice. Most of the world learned about Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years, from her obituary.

Happy International Le***an Day. ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜
The five women in this carousel had very different amounts of freedom to say who they loved.

→ Audre Lorde (she/her) said it plainly and often, describing herself as a Black le***an mother, warrior, and poet.
→ Lorraine Hansberry (she/her) wrote letters in 1957 to The Ladder, the le***an magazine published here in San Francisco by the Daughters of Bilitis. She signed them with her initials, two years before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway.
→ Chavela Vargas (she/her) sang love songs to women for decades and refused to change the pronouns. She came out publicly at 81.
→ Fran Lebowitz (she/her) is 75 and still saying exactly what she thinks.

Some of them said it out loud and some waited a lifetime. If your daughter has told you, she chose not to wait.

Send this to a parent whose daughter just came out. If that parent is you and you’re still finding your footing, we have a Support Group that meets every 2nd Tuesday (more info in our bio).

This Saturday, October 10th, PFLAG families and allies from across the Mid-Pacific region meet at Skyline College in San...
10/07/2026

This Saturday, October 10th, PFLAG families and allies from across the Mid-Pacific region meet at Skyline College in San Bruno for Love Out Loud, our regional summit. 🏳️‍🌈

Here’s the session lineup:

→ Advancing PFLAG’s Mission Through Mental Health Partnership, with the Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative
→ How to Grow a Diverse Chapter: Stories from the Asian-American Ethnoburbs
→ Standing Up for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers, with The LGBT Asylum Project
→ Safety First: Exploring Chapter Safety Planning
→ State Legislative Advocacy, 2026 Advocacy Activities, and Ideas for Improvement
→ Loving Our Inner Children Out Loud, a guided meditation workshop
→ Speaking Truth to Power and Building Bridges Within Local School Districts

We also have some incredible sessions from leaders in the community across partner organizations. A lot of our sessions are led by PFLAG chapter leaders who have done this work in their own communities, from school board meetings to reaching families outside their usual circles.

Send this to someone from your chapter you want in the room with you. Learn more about the summit at the link in our bio.

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584 Castro Street, # 758
San Francisco, CA
94114

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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+14159218850

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