PFLAG Howard County.

06/27/2025

You don’t wanna miss this happy hour! Come support PFLAG and Howard County PRIDE for our joint Pride Happy Hour with Sapwood Cellars Brewery happening 4-7pm!

06/25/2025

Join us and Howard County PRIDE for Sapwood Cellars Brewery’s second annual Pride Month Happy Hour! Try their delicious brews and support both us and HoCo Pride as Sapwood Cellars fundraises for the both of us. See you FRIDAY!

06/02/2025

Happy Pride Month friends! To kick things off some support this fundraiser in support of our chapter! Then join Howard County PRIDE on Sunday for OEC Pride!!

02/04/2025

This is big! Our chapter stands behind our National Chapter in full! We will always fight for our people

BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
PFLAG National—along with transgender young adults and families with transgender youth and GLMA—is serving as a plaintiff in a federal legal challenge against the executive order from the Trump administration attempting to shut down nationwide access to necessary medical care for transgender people under 19.

We have always said it—and always meant it—that PFLAG National will NEVER back down in supporting each and every one of our family members. NOW, with the incredible work of our legal teams at ACLU, Lambda Legal, ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Hogan Lovells and Jenner & Block, we are taking powerful action.

“PFLAG parents are good and decent people who love their trans kids and want them to grow up to become thriving, happy, healthy adults. Yet, President Trump and other politicians maliciously harm our families by denying them access to physician-prescribed, medically recommended care. This order puts trans and nonbinary young people and their families at risk—and we’re not putting up with it.

“To every transgender and nonbinary youth and young adult, every parent, every family, know this: PFLAG National is not backing down from this fight; PFLAG’s got you.” —Brian K. Bond (he/him) CEO, PFLAG National

For more information, visit pflag.org/resource/pvt-faqs

01/28/2025

🚨 Breaking News: Trump’s latest executive order is yet another attack on trans rights, effectively banning all trans military service members.

"Every person who has the courage, the fortitude, and the skill to choose to wear the uniform in service of our country demands our respect and our gratitude. Last night's action to put transgender service members in the closet revisits the failed military policy of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and demonstrates the extent of the president's disdain for those who serve. Our nation owes transgender members of the military, Coast Guard, and their families the same solemn duty as every service member: to ensure their ability to patriotically serve is not hampered by politics or personal agenda. PFLAG continues to fight for the right for every transgender service member to serve openly, as we have for decades." —Brian K. Bond (he/him) CEO, PFLAG National

Transgender people belong in our families, our communities, our workplaces, our schools, AND in service to our country. PFLAG will not rest until every LGBTQ+ person is safe, celebrated, empowered, and loved. 🏳️‍⚧️

01/21/2025

Now more than ever, we have to make our love HEARD. Call your lawmakers. Care for your loved ones. And most of all, FIGHT for our LGBTQ+ community. ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Use tomorrow as a day to show how our love is louder:
• Visit pflag.org/findachapter and contact your local PFLAG chapter to see how you can support your community.
• Visit pflag.org/connects-communities to join a PFLAG virtual community meeting.
• Visit pflag.org/jointhefight for advocacy tools and ways you can take action.
• Sign up for our newsletters at pflag.org/newsletter-sign-up to receive advocacy updates, resources, and more.

We have consistently shown up for over 50 years, and we’ll keep showing up for the next 50 years and beyond. Our love is louder.

01/13/2025

Kathy Donnelly and Patty Iammatteo are offering a yoga, meditation, and prayer flag painting workshop for those over 16 years old at:
Yoga Center of Columbia,
8950 MD-108 #109.
It will take place on February 2, 1-3:30 and is for absolute beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.

All proceeds from this workshop will benefit PFLAG of HOCO. Sign up here: https://momence.com/s/109765121

The cost is $50. Pre-registration is required since it’s for a limited number of participants. We expect this workshop to fill.

01/11/2025

Come support this amazing fundraiser! Thank you so much for your support friends at the Yoga Center

11/23/2024

This Straight for Equality Saturday, we're sharing tips on how to be a better ally when you make a mistake. Whether you misgendered someone by using the wrong pronouns by accident or used an outdated term, how you handle it can show your LGBTQ+ friend, loved one, or colleague that you care.
Here's our advice on what to do next:
Step 1. Acknowledge your mistake.
Step 2. Apologize* and correct yourself.
Step 3. Commit to doing better.
Step 4. Move on.

*If someone lets you know they don’t need or want an apology when you make
a mistake, believe them. Don’t linger on it—just be sure to put in the work to do better.
To learn more, download our Guide to Being an Ally to Trans and Nonbinary People: https://pflagnation.al/49aORVq

11/20/2024

Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey so we know what we’re feeling and how we can help:

We know many of you and those in our communities are feeling a real sense of fear, concern and uncertainty. We want to reassure you that the Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs will continue to be a place of action, moving forward with an even greater sense of urgency. The Commission was establi...