A recent post in a Facebook group bought to light something that identified a shortcoming with Frisco Pride; the fact that our collective history was not evident on our site or anywhere else for that matter. This post aims to address some of those thoughts.
For starters, Frisco has at least two LGBTQ-oriented groups. Frisco Pride was established in 1999 as Gay Frisco and then renamed Frisco Pride in 2000 as a reflection of our support from allies and other members who did not identify as “gay.” The other, Pride Frisco (yes the names are very similar) was established in late 2021.
The history of Frisco Pride is significant, and it was a reference to the lack of understanding, knowledge, or even awareness of that history that resonated the most when reading that FB post. For over two decades, Frisco Pride members have worked silently and publicly to change the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens, and we have been incredibly successful in that approach. Personalizing a group of people makes it much more difficult to attack a faceless group. Many of our members over twenty years have put a public face on who an LGTBQ person is in Frisco.
Our history is important, and it is what separates us from many other LGBTQ groups in our area. Frisco Pride is the oldest existing LGBTQ group in Frisco and Collin County! While everything we have done over the 22 years of our existence is not documented, a good amount of it is, and today we rectify this by adding “our history” to the website.
As the person (straight woman) who wrote the FP post shared, “I don’t know anything about the history of your group.” Well, now we do.
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