ATTN: Oklahoma City - we hope you’ll join us today for the 27th Annual OKC AIDS Walk. It starts at Noon - Myriad Gardens.

Reaching the Summit Michael Maus has been advocating for HIV services in Oklahoma for more than 25 years.

Take a moment to read the article in POZ Magazine about our friend Michael Maus who was the recipient of the Rainbow Youth Project’s 2024 Summit Award for Lifetime Achievement. www.poz.com/article/reac...

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is an annual event globally observed on July 30th. The day was established on December 18, 2013, by the United Nations General Assembly with the desire to: Raise awareness and promote the protection of the rights of trafficking victims.

Our Oklahoma office presents:

We would like to congratulate M&R Doyle Holdings, Inc. as the recipient of the Anne Roberts People’s Choice Award in Child Advocacy award from the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy.

Excited about the Heroes Ball tonight which is presented by the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy. Rainbow Youth Project is nominated for an award tonight and it’s an honor to be in that group with so many amazing organizations that work on behalf of youth.

It’s the last day to vote for Rainbow Youth Project for the People’s Choice Award in Child Advocacy! We recommend Darryl Savell for your vote in the individual category. Click to vote and vote as many times as you want! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Rainbow Youth Project could use your vote - it’s nominated for the People’s Choice Award in Child Advocacy! You can vote from anywhere and takes less than a minute! I recommend voting for Darryl Savell, too, while you’re at it! Click to vote - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

BREAKING: Puerto Rico governor signs gender-affirming care ban that includes young adults into law The law criminalizes the care for transgender people under 21 years old.

Transgender people under 21 in Puerto Rico can’t get care.

What happened to it being about the children?

www.advocate.com/news/puerto-...

Why Democrats & Republicans are begging the Trump administration to reinstate LGBTQ+ 988 crisis lifeline A coalition of Democrats and Republicans is calling for the restoration of the emergency mental health resource.

“There’s a feeling of targeted oppression right now,” American Foundation for Suicide Prevention chief medical officer Christine Moutier told me.

www.advocate.com/news/reinsta...

Federal HR office sets deadline for government-wide purge of transgender and nonbinary inclusion The Office of Personnel Management has become the enforcement arm of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.

Agencies have until August 11 to submit a detailed report to OPM outlining the steps taken to comply.

www.advocate.com/news/opm-tra...

Our OKC staff hope to see you at Mosaic Community Church with our friends Sarah Cunningham and Nico Lang on Thursday, July 17, 6:30 pm.

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Rainbow Youth Project is nominated for 2025 Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy's Anne Roberts People's Choice Award in Child Advocacy!

They deserve it👍

@rainbowyouth.bsky.social is a great org that I am sure many of you know of.
Link to vote for them 👇

forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

2/2. Use this link to cast your vote: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

1/2. Rainbow Youth Project’s Oklahoma office is nominated for the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy’s Anne Roberts People’s Choice Award in Child Advocacy. We would love to have your vote! Here’s why -

Thank you so much!

In light of the government shutting down the LGBTQ crisis hotline at The Trevor Project, please let folks know that @rainbowyouth.bsky.social ‘s hotline is open 24/7.

Advocates and health experts worry Trump's suicide prevention hotline cuts will increase LGBTQ+ youth deaths Karine Jean-Pierre and others have called out Trump’s proposed cuts to LGBTQ+ suicide prevention services, which health experts and advocates alike say could devastate the 988 lifeline for queer youth...

Read the full article - www.advocate.com/news/988-cri...

From The Advocate

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Happy Nonbinary Parents’ Day - April 20, 2025.

Each year the third Sunday in April marks Nonbinary Parent’s Day.

We pause to remember and honor those lost and those forever changed. On April 19, 1995, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City killed 168 people, including 19 children.

Oklahoma City - We hope you’ll stop by!

#NYHAAD