Stonewall is really open to new people. In fact we have tons of new people coming every week. Also because Pride concentrates a lot on Chico State, we outreach to the Community College in Butte and to some of the smaller nearby towns. We got a big grant from a youth organization money for brochures and stuff, and I ve been going into a lot of the local high schools and meeting with counselors, letting them know about us, telling them how kids can reach us. It s interesting, we meet with a lot of youth groups and they are all run and coordinated differently.
Pride is student run.
Student activities, dances, events, ways to get involved on campus, things like that. We ll have group discussions where Pride will plan events. We also have Pride Panels, which is usually a panel of 4 to 5 people who go into a particular class and answer questions about sexuality and stuff like that, whatever the students want to know. That can be challenging to just go in to a class. But you know, at the end they come up and say thanks.