The Pride Center hosts a number of different intergenerational social and educational community events, ranging from monthly technology workshops to monthly Trans Talks.
Interested in holding an event at the Pride Center? Have a specific activity you’d like to see the Pride Center run? Please contact us at info@sanmateopride.org and our staff will do our best to work with you to make it happen.
Take a look at our calendar for updates on community events, workshops and groups hosted by the Pride Center!
Join us for this special event to commemorate Filipinx/a/o American History Month and National Coming Out Day!
The Pride Center and the College of San Mateo invite you to join our multicultural, food-centered intergenerational virtual event. Honoring the intersection of community, culture, and safety and paired with National Coming Out Day, “Kamayan and the Identities That Feed Us” is an event where the community can share experiences of invisibility. Join us as Megan Bueno, Alumna of the College of SMC, and Krystle Cansino from the SMC LGBTQ Commission, discuss the celebration of the intersectionality of our LGBTQ identities and how they intersect with Filipinx Cultural roots.
Then, stick around for a live lumpia-making demonstration from our own, Frankie Sapp, Program Director of the San Mateo County Pride Center! You will receive ingredients to buy ahead of time should you want to participate and learn while you roll! This is an opportunity for those within these communities to share our wisdom and unite with allies, advocating on behalf of racial injustices within the LGBTQ and AAPI community. Please register in advance using this link: tinyurl.com/kamayanan2022
Stay tuned for more information about this event!
Accessibility information: Closed captions will be available.
Interested in supporting local Filipinx-owned shops in the Bay Area? Visit this link to learn more about businesses near you: https://www.kapwagardens.com/blog/shop-local-filipinx-owned-small-businesses-in-the-bay-area
At this moment, we are not hosting case management during a dedicated drop in time period. We previously held those drop in hours every Wednesday. We are offering case management services on a case to case basis.
If you would like to receive case management services, please complete the clinical services intake form located here. You may also choose to fill out this form on behalf of the person requesting clinical services. Feel free to reach out to us via email clinical@sanmateopride.org or phone at (650) 591-0133 ext. 146.
Thank you to everyone who attended this collaborative training created by Jennifer Brust, CEO of Sparta Business Solutions and the Pride Center. Participants learned how to make their Human Resources practices more LGBTQ+ inclusive through updated HR policies, procedures, and resources. Please click this link (or the button below) to access resources compiled by the Jennifer and the San Mateo County Pride Center.
The Pride Center and Stanford LGBTQ+ Health Program co-host Trans Talks, a free, monthly workshop series that centers the health and wellness of our Transgender, Gender Diverse and Non-Binary community members. Community members are invited to ask questions on their health and wellness. Every month, a different professional from Stanford’s LGBTQ+ Health Program will share information, lead a discussion and answer your questions. This is a free workshop open to all community members.
In August, we discussed Monkey Pox: Overview, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention & Local Resources. This presentation covered general information about the virus, how it is transmitted, what the symptoms are, how it is treated, how it is prevented, the United States’s current public health response, and resources for how to find local services and vaccine information.
Please click this link to access a recording of the workshop: tinyurl.com/transtalkmonkeypox
Accessibility information:
The recording is in english and closed captioning is utilized.
To access recordings of other previous Trans Talks, please use this link: tinyurl.com/transtalks-recordings. All recordings utilize closed captioning. Previous workshops have included: Gender Affirming Surgery 101, Safer Sex & Gender Affirming Voice Therapy
If you have questions, need support or would like to suggest a topic please contact Sawye (she/her) at raygani@stanford.edu
The next Trans Talks is scheduled to take place on Thursday, 9/15 from 6:30-7:30 PM PST on Zoom.
We are proud to offer a collection of Resource Roadmap brochures as a resource to support and empower Transgender, Gender-Diverse, and Non-binary individuals in navigating various resources in San Mateo County and beyond.
This resource was created by the community, for the community. Available for download and printing, each brochure focuses on a central topic relating to: Housing, Physical/Mental Health, Employment, Legal Advocacy, and the Essentials (Food, Shelter & Wellness). Please click the button below to access brochures.
We hosted a series of workshops with our friends at the Community Equity Collaborative in partnership with the Silicon Valley Community foundation called the “Rainbow Kids trainings”. In these workshops, participants learned age-appropriate techniques for holding discussions about sexual orientation and gender. For resources shared during this workshop, please see this link.
In April, we celebrated Earth Day with a panel titled Queer Voices: A Panel on Intersectionality and the Environment with our friends at the San Mateo County Libraries, and the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability & our special collaborators at Planting Justice. Thank you to Maya Salsedo (she/they) and Jiyeon Choi (they/them) for leading this incredible discussion! For Queer Ecology Resources compiled by the San Mateo County Library and San Mateo County Pride Center, please see this link.
