Hey folks, we are the Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance.

We're a non-profit service organization for LGBTQ+ youth and allies in the Inland Empire. We provide a safe space for young people to meet, make friends and participate in various weekly events and activities. We also offer support and resources for gender affirmation and community building.

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Mayhem Miller Speaks... Mental Health!

What support did you need as a queer child? As a queer child I would say I was always supported. Growing up in a religious family in a conservative town...

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Ana Gabriel: Simplemente Amigos

by Efren Castro Maria Guadalupe Araujo Yong was born on December 10th, 1955 in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico to Ramon Araujo Valenzuela and Isabel Yong. She began singing and composing her own...

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Indigenous Peoples' Day

Indigenous Peoples' Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time of celebration, education, and honoring the original inhabitants of the land. Today RPYA would like to take this opportunity to talk about...

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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley

A few suggestions about how you can celebrate and learn about the Native heritage and histories of the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley region, home to 13 federally recognized tribal...

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The Life and History of Juan Gabriel

by Efren Castro Alberto Aguilera Valadez was born on January 7, 1950 in Parácuaro, Michoacan, Mexico to farm workers Gabriel Aguilera Rodriguez & Victoria Valadez Rojas. His father died at a...

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Why does it straddle two months?

Hispanic Heritage Month goes from September 15 to October 15. Have you ever wondered why it's positioned like that on the calendar?

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Cultivando la buena salud mental

El trauma que experimentamos en la infancia no fue nuestra culpa, pero de adulto a nosotros nos toca sanar para vivir la vida más auténticamente.

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Cultivating Positive Mental Health: Understanding trauma & developing coping skills

The trauma we experience as children is not our fault, but as adults it is our responsibility to heal so that we show up more authentically for ourselves and the...

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LGBTQ+ people deserve affirming therapists

by Zefferin LLamas Therapy is one of the most effective tools we have in establishing positive mental health. However, LGBTQ+ people often face discrimination in the therapist's office due to a...

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Tips & resources for helping a loved one through a crisis

by Zefferin Llamas *This article is presented in English first, and in Spanish below. Este artículo se presenta primero en inglés y luego en español. What is a mental health crisis? A mental health...

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Suicide is preventable: Warning signs, crisis intervention, and resources

Although we can't prevent suicide entirely, we can be aware of warning signs and offer support to loved ones who may believe that there is no other way out for...

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7 Years of Pulse

Pulse was a queer nightclub founded on July 2nd, 2004 by Barbara Poma and Ron Legler in Orlando, Florida. It was home to many drag performers including Drag Race...

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Check out our Zine Catalog!

Here at RPYA, we strive to support the communities with whom we work in part by creating resources that broaden access to health, wellness, and harm reduction. We have the...

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Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction

Overdoses are a medical emergency, and it is time we treat them as such with care, urgency, and free of judgement. Learn more about overdoses and about how to talk...

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How to Recognize & Reverse an Overdose

Overdoses are medical emergencies, they occur commonly during recreational drug use, and can be fatal. Luckily, there are ways to reverse an overdose. Find us at local tabling events to pick...

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A Note From the Executive Director

Hello my RPYA family, I am horrified by the events at Club Q in Colorado Springs this past weekend and the ongoing bigotry & hatred being spewed towards our LGBTQ2S communities. I have...

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ABCs of Queer & Trans Immigrant Health: This Thursday, Nov 17

There are many barriers to accessing healthcare in the USA, barriers that are compounded for queer and trans immigrants by their gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, or some mixture of...

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Transgender Awareness Week

The week before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility of transgender people and address issues...

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Reflections from PS Pride's Advocate of the Year: Dr. Toni D'Orsay

by Zefferin LLamas Dr. Toni D’Orsay is a sociologist and psychologist, a veteran, and a recognized expert on trans lives. It is fitting that Dr. D’Orsay should be awarded the honor of Advocate...

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Palm Springs Pride: We said GAY

Thanks to Sergio Garcia of the Desert Sun for this picture This year's Palm Springs Pride celebration was themed "Say Gay," as a response to rising anti-queer and anti-trans extremism in...

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Congratulations to our Executive Director

RPYA's staff and supporters are very excited to share that our Executive Director, Reverend Benita Ramsey, has been chosen as Grand Marshall of Palm Springs Pride 2022! Reverend Benita has faithfully...

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It's Asexuality Awareness Week (Ace Week)

Image: Aceweek.org by Zefferin LLamas Asexuality and aromanticism are not very well researched and, as a result, not very well understood. Lack of understanding can contribute to stigma to which asexual (or ace)...

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California to Be the First State to Provide Healthcare to All Qualifying Residents Regardless of Status

Vignette from our new Queer + Trans Immigrant Health Zine by Zefferin LLamas In January of this year, Governor Newsom introduced a plan to allow all California residents (documented or not) of all ages to...

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Queer + Trans Immigrant Health Zine from RPYA

Here at Rainbow Pride we have put together zine called A Super Brief Overview of the US Healthcare System for Queer + Trans Undocumented Folks. This zine is intended to give readers...

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Decision Day

Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court this past Friday, June 24, meaning the right to abortion is no longer protected by the...

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Queer Liberation Front Manifesto Zine

Check out our revision to the Gay Liberation Front: Manifesto of 1971 - Liberation Manifesto. You can also download a digital copy, just click here. 2022-Queer-Liberation-Front-Manifesto-ZineDownload

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#BlackLivesMatter

A Letter to Our Community As a Queer & Non-Binary People of Color led youth-centered organization, Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance we grieve for the loss of Black lives taken — for...

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Abortion rights in the US (part 2)

by Zefferin LLamasImage: Lorie Shaull by Zefferin LLamas Last week, we talked about the history of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that guaranteed access to abortion on the grounds that...

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Abortion rights in the US (part 1)

A brief overview of Roe v. Wade by Zefferin LLamas How did it start? Image: Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons During the 1950s and 1960s, marginalized...

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Senate Bill 923 - TGI (Trans, Gender-variant and Intersex) Inclusive Care Act

Monday, April 4, 2022 by Zefferin Llamas What is it? Senate Bill 923 (SB923), also known as TGI (Transgender, Gender-variant, and Intersex) Inclusive Care Act would require healthcare providers and staff in California...

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What is Gender Affirming Care?

Anti-trans directives and legislation are fueled (in part) by misconceptions about what gender-affirming care looks like. Let's talk about what it actually looks like. The most important gender affirming care that...

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Texas Update

by Zefferin LLamas Federal and state officials respond to Abbot and Paxton Recap Two weeks ago, in a desperate move to rile up a conservative base and garner support for November’s gubernatorial election,...

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Op-ed: Four book recommendations for contextualizing your place in the universe and making contact with your life's purpose

by Zefferin LLamas I was born in the 90s and came of age in the 00s. Like many queer people my age, my relationship with my parents was strained and tense....

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Op-ed: A post-holidays reflection on Capitalism, Bodies, and Identity

by Pici Late-stage capitalism is a term that describes an authoritative and exploitative labor system and is also used to refer to our modern society’s distortion of human life. In our...

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Do you know what chest binders are?

by Zefferin LLamas Chest binders are compression undergarments used to flatten the chest. Many different types of folks use binders, including (but not limited to) transmasculine and gender-nonconforming people. Binders may...

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