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Indio Proud An LGBTQ+ community for Indio and the Coachella Valley. Celebrate, connect, thrive. 🌵 Local, welcoming, and proud to be here. indioproud.org

29/07/2026

Nobody has ever counted how many LGBTQ+ people live in Indio. The Census doesn't ask. So we did the math ourselves, conservatively, showing every step.

Somewhere between 3,500 and 6,300 LGBTQ+ adults live in this city. Your pharmacist. Somebody's abuela. The guy who fixed your AC in July.

When Indio held its first Pride in June, about 200 people came out in 109-degree heat. For every one of them, fifteen to thirty more were home.

Full math, every source, and every way we could be wrong:
https://indioproud.org/how-many-lgbtq-people-live-in-indio/

23/07/2026

Know a business in the Coachella Valley where LGBTQ+ folks are welcomed like family? Tell us about them.

Our Affirming Spaces directory is built on nominations from neighbors like you. It takes two minutes, and it helps someone find a safe haircut, a friendly cup of coffee, or a doctor who gets it.

Nominate a business: https://indioproud.org/nominate

That review. You know the one you're afraid of — the reason the "everyone is welcome" sticker is still in the drawer.New...
21/07/2026

That review. You know the one you're afraid of — the reason the "everyone is welcome" sticker is still in the drawer.

New on Good for Business: a calm, no-drama plan for the day a hostile review actually shows up. What to do before it happens, the one warm reply that works (ready to copy and adapt), and the three moves that only make it worse.

Spoiler from a farm stand in rural Michigan: the owners were scared of what visibility would bring their home. What it brought was 400 neighbors.

Every Indio business that welcomes everyone deserves a plan this calm. Read it here:
https://indioproud.org/when-the-one-star-review-comes/

We're on Instagram too! 🌵🏳️‍🌈 Come say hi and see more of Indio Proud — neighbor stories, local love, and all the desert...
01/07/2026

We're on Instagram too! 🌵🏳️‍🌈 Come say hi and see more of Indio Proud — neighbor stories, local love, and all the desert pride. Follow us over there: 🧡

Indio's first Pride was everything we hoped for. 🏳️‍🌈 It was also 109°. 🥵Before anyone plans the next one, we want to he...
01/07/2026

Indio's first Pride was everything we hoped for. 🏳️‍🌈 It was also 109°. 🥵

Before anyone plans the next one, we want to hear from the people it's for: when should Indio Pride happen? Cooler months? An evening celebration? Something else entirely?

We built a quick, anonymous survey — about 3 minutes, and your answers will genuinely help shape what comes next. 💛

👉 https://indioproud.org/indio-pride-survey-2026/

We want to know who's out there. 🌵Whether you were born and raised in Indio, found your way here, or you're just rooting...
30/06/2026

We want to know who's out there. 🌵

Whether you were born and raised in Indio, found your way here, or you're just rooting for this community from nearby — we'd love to meet you.

Drop a 👋 in the comments and tell us one thing you love about Indio. Could be a taco spot, a sunset, a neighborhood, a memory.

We'll go first in the replies. 💛

This is how we start: one hello at a time.

This is us. 🌈We're John and David, partners in life and the two behind Indio Proud, a new LGBTQ+-owned shop and communit...
29/06/2026

This is us. 🌈

We're John and David, partners in life and the two behind Indio Proud, a new LGBTQ+-owned shop and community platform built right here in the Coachella Valley.

We started Indio Proud because visibility matters most close to home. Our city just celebrated its first-ever Pride, and we wanted to give that energy a place to live all year long. So we built one, around three things we care about: celebrate, connect, and thrive.

That looks like original Pride merch designed in Indio, an Affirming Spaces directory of welcoming local businesses, and real stories from the q***r community that makes this desert ours.

Follow along, shop the first drop, and come be part of it. Indio Proud is for all of us.

🔗 indioproud.org

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