Elgin Pride 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

June 6: Mark your calendars for Elgin's Fourth Annual Pride Parade and Festival! Free entry, family friendly, all ages, allies welcome. More details + vendor/parade signup at ElginPride.org 🎉

Have a caff-y, chatty, happy new year! Kick it off with community! Elgin Pride Chat & Caff is a casual coffee hangout for all ages. January 3 * 10 AM to noon * Come anytime!
Churros y Chocolate * 66 S Grove Ave, Elgin
Free entry * Food & drink for purchase * All ages * Allies welcome

Elgin Pride Game Night: Ugly Sweater & Gift Exchange Edition! Gift exchange is optional. Bring a $15-20 gift to participate! Ugly sweaters optional. Prize for best (worst) dressed! Free entry All ages Allies welcome Snacks provided; feel free to bring some too! 6:30-10 PM December 18 Boar’s Hat Gaming 1341 Manor Ct, Elgin

Elgin Pride Game Night: Ugly Sweater & Gift Exchange Edition!
Gift exchange is optional. Bring a $15-20 gift to participate!
Ugly sweaters optional.
Free entry
All ages
Allies welcome
Snacks provided; feel free to bring some too!
6:30-10 PM
December 18
Boar’s Hat Gaming
1341 Manor Ct, Elgin

12/6 10 AM-noon, join us at Churros y Chocolate Elgin for Chat & Caff, a casual community get-together! 66 S. Grove Ave, Elgin.

Elgin Pride Support programs, events, and services for the Elgin area queer community and its allies. Let's increase wellness for all, together.

Looking to get in the mix? Monetary donations help of course, but we know times are tough, to put it mildly. Consider donating your time, talents, raffle items, or meeting spaces. Or tell a friend about our events and our Discord. Every bit counts, and we're grateful for it all. ElginPride.org

This #GivingTuesday we're giving thanks to the thousands of you who march with us, come to our year-round events, take part in our festival, and otherwise help bring celebration, education, visibility, and safe spaces to the Elgin area's queer and marginalized communities.

Wishing you a safe and joyful day. Thank you for making our community sweeter all year round through your presence, your volunteer work, and your support. We're grateful for you!

Halloween Game Night Thursday, Nightmare on Chicago Street Saturday -- Spooky Season is officially upon us!

Tomorrow is National Coming Out Day, when we honor our community's stories, listen to those who are ready to share theirs, and hold space for those whose stories are silent.
Recommended event: Belong: Fox Valley's storytelling and social event 10/12 at 6 PM, Geneva Winery's Batavia location!

Go where the grownups are! LGBTQ+ folks ages 50 and up, join us at this month's Prime Network -- a happy hour designed for queer people in their prime.
October 15 6 PM-8 PM
Eastside Café - Coffee & Wine Bar
311 Barrington Ave, Unit A, East Dundee

See you tomorrow at DuPage Court (outside, between the Elgin Area Chamber and Dream Hall) for coffee and friendship! 10-12 (drop in anytime), all ages, free entry, BYO caff!

Today we close out #BiWeek with Celebrate Bisexuality+ Day! Bi+ and pan friends, you are valid and you are seen!
Get more info and resources at GLAAD's website!

Game Night this Thursday! Drop in at or after 6:30 for free gameplay for players of all interests. Allies welcome, and all ages!

Prime Network is TONIGHT at Eastside Café - Coffee & Wine Bar! Drop in between 5 and 7 to meet other LGBTQ+ people in their 50s and older!

Are you 50 or older and looking to meet other LGBTQIA+ locals? Drop in to Eastside Café - Coffee & Wine Bar on Sept. 17 between 5-7 PM for friendship and community! Last month's event was a huge success, and we're excited to see y'all again!

Game night tomorrow at Boar's Hat Gaming! Free, all ages, and allies welcome. Bring a friend, a board or card game, or just yourself!

Book Club this Sunday, and the very first Prime Network 50+ Happy Hour one week from today!

Archives Bookshop Archives, founded by a queer married couple tired of the literary status quo, is a unique bookstore and mocktail bar in Elgin. We champion diverse voices and stories that challenge traditional narrati...

bookshop.org/shop/Archives and bookshop.org/.../bury-you... for more!

Our next book club pick: horror bestseller BURY YOUR GAYS by Chuck Tingle. Get info and reviews at bookshop.org, where your purchase of the book or ebook can benefit our local indie Archives Elgin. Click "Choose a Bookstore" then pick Archives. See you August 17 at Gail Borden Public Library!

Elgin Pride Prime Network | Elgin Pride Elgin Pride's vibrant and engaging happy hour specifically designed for LGBTQ+ individuals who are 50 years old and above.

The tea: elginpride.org/event-details/elgin-pride-prime-network

Announcing the Prime Network, a 50+ LGBTQ+ happy hour! Connect with fellow LGBTQ+ people in their prime, in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere.
August 20, 5-7 PM (drop in), Eastside Cafe, Dundee. Free entry; drinks and food for purchase. No RSVP required.

New program announcement drops today! What do you think it will be? Add your guess in the comments🩷⬇️

This is happening at 10 AM today! Bring sun protection, bug spray, and water for a relaxed-pace hike with your community at Fitchie Creek Forest Preserve.

See you tomorrow at the (air-conditioned!) Boar's Hat Gaming for Elgin Pride Game Night. Til then, stay safe in this heat!

Game Night Thurs. July 24 at Boar's Hat Gaming! Queer Mountaineers Hike Sunday July 27 at Fitchie Creek Forest Preserve! Details on our website, ElginPride.org 🧩🌲

Tomorrow at 10 AM, meet us at Eastside Café - Coffee & Wine Bar for our most popular event, Chat & Caff! It's a relaxed hangout for all ages, allies included. Make new friends, or bring your book or craft and just exist alongside other cool queer, affirming humans!

A photo of rainbow cake on a rainbow background. Overlaid text reads "Elgin Pride Chat & Caff. Special location! Eastside Cafe, 311 Barrington Ave Unit A, East Dundee. July 19. Drop in anytime between 10 and noon. All ages. Free entry. Free street parking. Drinks and food available for purchase. ElginPride.org

Join us this Saturday July 19 for Chat & Caff at Eastside Cafe Dundee! Chat & Caff is a relaxed coffee meetup for community and allies of all ages. Drop in Saturday anytime between 10 and noon, 311 Barrington Ave Unit A, East Dundee!

"Language is imperfect, so it’s important to trust and respect the words that nonbinary people use to describe their genders and experiences.
To all of our nonbinary loved ones: We see you, we support you, and we're proud of you! 💛🤍" -PFLAG National

"Some use the term exclusively, while others may use it interchangeably with terms like genderqueer, genderfluid, gender non-conforming, gender diverse, or gender expansive. It can also be combined with other descriptors e.g. nonbinary woman or transmasc nonbinary." -PFLAG National

Elgin Pride's logo in black and lavender, atop a nonbinary flag that looks like paint on canvas. From top to bottom, stripes in yellow, white, purple, and black.

Happy International Nonbinary People’s Day! 💛🤍💜🖤 From PFLAG National: "What does it mean to be “nonbinary”?
Nonbinary refers to people who do not subscribe to the gender binary. Check out their amazing resources at pflag.org/resource/non... and more info in our comments!