Empowering Our Community
Our Three Pillars
Springboard Program
The Oakland Black Pride Springboard Program is an incubator initiative, which promotes personal and professional growth using methods and resources curated exclusively for Black people who self-identify as LGBTQ+ by: supporting shared knowledge bases and experience exchange; offering strategic career/project planning and evaluation; providing mentorship and safe work & social space. Creating opportunities for capacity building, the program empowers the most vulnerable members of the queer community to take the lead in producing changes that affect them. The curriculum will include modules on self-esteem, assertiveness, building relationships, understanding and accepting my sexuality and/or gender, and sex and sexual health.
QTBIPOC Social Circle
The monthly Social Circle works to create a welcoming and affirming climate for the expanding BIPOC, LGBTQ+ community in Oakland and the Regional Bay Area. Oakland Black Pride hosts monthly engagements and events to ensure we have affirming space to build community, get to know each other, and find support through social interactions. Some of the events we will engage in: Transmasc and Nonbinary Social Hour; Community Wellness Circle, Soapbox Sessions; The Black Pride Party and a Skill Swap. The QTBIPOC Social Circle is where Black, queer persons can go to learn, love, laugh and find a sense of self.
Black Pride Festival
Pride month celebrates the moments in queer history that sparked activism and progress toward equality. Many of these defining moments were only made possible by Black and brown LGBTQ+ activists fighting for liberation. Their contribution has been whitewashed out of much of the history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. The Black Pride festival, an annual production, is a way to reconcile the two identities of blackness and queerness, by providing programs and activities curated exclusively for communities that live at the intersection of racism, homophobia, transphobia and/or sexism. The festival creates a safe space to build community, find a sense of self and celebrate our culture and orientation without having to shape our existence.
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