Join us for Northern California's biggest Pride Celebration weekend. Sacramento Pride Weekend events are produced by the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. Our mission is to create a region where LGBTQ+ people thrive. We work to support the health and wellness of the most marginalized, advocate for equity and justice, and [...]
Click here for tickets! Mama's back and she's bringing her closest friends and a whole mess of bacon! Sacramento's Biggest Drag Brunch Extravaganza will happen once again at Sacramento's iconic Memorial Auditorium.
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center is honored to host an evening event on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2022. We have planned an evening of remembrance and celebration that will take place at the United First Methodist church at 2100 J Street, Sacramento. Doors open @ 5 p.m. The evening [...]
Join us this holiday season for our annual Chosen Family Feast (formerly "friendsgiving") Bring your friends, family, and chosen family, or bring yourself and share a meal with community. RSVP Today!
As Director of Advocacy and Training, I have the privilege of overseeing Governmental Affairs for the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. Part of this work is keeping up to date on the city, county, state, and federal political landscape and its implication for LGBTQ+ rights. Every election, [...]
The 1963 March on Washington was a collaborative effort between several landmark organizers from just as many major civil rights groups. While the original idea came from A. Philip Randolph, and the March’s keynote speaker is famously Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the strongest coordinating force behind the march [...]
Politician, business owner, activist, and gay man: Harvey Milk did it all. Today, San Francisco is known as one of America’s most predominantly Proud cities. NYC may have Stonewall, but we have Castro Street. And Harvey Milk opened a camera shop on Castro in 1972 after moving from the [...]
If you have had any exposure to Pride before, chances are you have heard the name Marsha P. Johnson before. But who was she? Why is her name everywhere? What does the P. stand for? Born right on the border between New Jersey and New York, Johnson found herself [...]
SIMON NKOLI South Africa was the first country in the world to add specific LGBT+ protections to its Constitution, in part thanks to Simon Nkoli. Born in 1957, Simon’s childhood and adolescence were spent in a South Africa still ruled by apartheid. The strict laws designated who could go [...]
ALAN TURING The father of computers and artificial intelligence itself was gay, and thus subject to unjust laws that had a profound effect on his personal and professional life. Homosexuality remained a crime in England until 1967, which was too late for Alan Turing. He created brilliant works in [...]
