Time to celebrate our Queer Youth
The first Lavender Graduation happened in 1995, after Ronni Sanlo was denied access to attend her children's graduation due to her sexual orientation. Now, it is celebrated across hundreds of colleges, but we don't have similar infrastructure to celebrate the achievements of our high school graduates. In North Dakota, they go through significant hardship in school and at home, experience disproportional bullying, and lack significant support structures. Each one who graduates has done something incredible and often against the odds our state gives them.
Rainbow Graduation is a time to bring some celebration to our queer youth around graduation. This year, it does so by inviting voices in our community to say encouraging words and those who are 18-24 to encourage everyone still going through school about life afterwards.
Rainbow Graduation is a time to bring some celebration to our queer youth around graduation. This year, it does so by inviting voices in our community to say encouraging words and those who are 18-24 to encourage everyone still going through school about life afterwards.
How to Participate
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This effort will be collecting and sharing videos from individuals across North Dakota. With the videos and information from participants put onto this web page. This page can then be shared to anyone who might benefit from seeing the love and support of adults across our state.
Who We're taking Videos From
Themes for Video
Optional Information to Include
How To Participate or Questions!
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Deadline
- All videos will be shared at time of receiving and upon approval of the video sender. This won't be a singular event, but an opportunity to continue to celebrate and share these videos across this month. We'll close video submissions on June 5th.
