To: Board of Supervisors
From: Ken Carlson, District IV Supervisor
Report Title: Declaring June 2025 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in Contra Costa County
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Declaring June 2025 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in Contra Costa County
FISCAL IMPACT:
none
BACKGROUND:
See Resolution Text
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
June 2025 will not be recognized as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, California
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IN THE MATTER OF declaring June 2025 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in Contra Costa County
WHEREAS, the month of June was chosen for LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual) Pride Month to commemorate the rise of the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement that grew out of spontaneous civil rights demonstrations by members of the LGBTQIA+ community against unjust police raids that took place in New York City at the end of June 1969, known as the Stonewall Riots; and
WHEREAS, Contra Costa Health, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, and Contra Costa Behavioral Health Services, through the work of the LGBTQ+ Pride Initiative, received the prestigious national designations of Leader in Healthcare Equality or Top Performer in Healthcare Equality each year since 2013 from the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQIA+ advocacy organization in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Contra Costa Health identified the need for a specialty clinic to serve the transgender and gender-diverse community and started the first Gender Clinic in October 2016, the only clinic for transgender care between Oakland and Sacramento at that time; and
WHEREAS, the Rainbow Community Center is an essential nonprofit in Contra Costa County that builds community, equity, and well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, asexual or agender, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) people and allies; and...
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