The nomination deadline for the 2023 Business of Pride Awards is July 23, 2023. Click here to make your nominations. Pacific Business News is looking for LGBTQ leaders, companies, and allies in Hawaii who are successful in their careers, active in their communities, and advocates for inclusion and equality. To ensure your nomination is as competitive … Continue reading Nominations deadline: The Business of Pride 2023

Join Gay Island Guide for SPLASH 2023 at Wet ʻnʻ Wild Hawaiʻi on Sunday, July 23 from 10:30am - 4:30pm with DJs, performances, gogo dancers, games & prizes and lots of rides and slides and other fun water sports! An ʻOhana & Keiki Pavillion will include activities for kids, a scavenger hunt for teens and … Continue reading SPLASH at Wet ʻnʻ Wild Hawaiʻi

The Rainbow Pride Alliance, a University of Hawaiʻi student-led organization focused on sexual and gender minority (SGM) diversity efforts, is organizing a training experience for 3rd year medical students that highlights SGM health. Theyʻre looking for local LGBTQ+ community members to play simulated patients, who will work directly with medical students on improving their interpersonal … Continue reading SGM Simulated Patient Experience at JABSOM

Join Oʻahu Queer Hiking for their first (of hopefully many) Queer Womxn Hike! Makapu'u Point Lighthouse Lookout Trail is a 4.0 kilometer/2.5 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail that features beautiful wildflowers and is good for all skill levels. The path is paved wheelchair accessible and dogs on leash are welcome. Theyʻll be optional … Continue reading Hawaiʻi Queer Womxn Makapu’u Point Lighthouse Hike

Join Lima Kokua for their Annual Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser on Saturday July 29th at Church of the Crossroads, and enjoy an afternoon of fellowship, door prizes, raffles, silent auction items and incredible home-made chili; all for a great cause. Lima Kokua has lent their helping hands in support of a wide variety of non-political causes for … Continue reading Lima Kokua Annual Chili Cook-Off

King Kamehameha III established Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) in 1843 as a days-long celebration following the rightful return of sovereign government to Hawaiʻi by the United Kingdom, after an illegal seizure by one of their representatives. He proclaimed, “Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono”–the ea (sovereignty, life, breath) of … Continue reading Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea

The Art in Public Places Program of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) has posted a Request for Qualifications on Call For Entry (CaFE) for the SFCA Art in Public Places Program. The program is seeking qualifications from individual artists for artwork to be commissioned for various locations statewide. Sites for … Continue reading Call for Artists: SFCA Art In Public Places

Hawaiʻi Women In Filmmakingʻs Making Media That Matters (MMTM) is a filmmaking program designed for young people who identify as girls (cis/trans), femmes, non-binary, gender-fluid, and gender-expansive youth.⁠ MMTM aims to foster critical thinking and storytelling skills, as well as the technical abilities to create, write, direct, and edit their own film projects. Through the … Continue reading Registration open: Making Media That Matters

Join the Buddhist community to reflect on what diversity and acceptance means within The Fundamental Vow of Amida Buddha (Hon-gan). The seminar will feature a screening of “A Profound Silence” which was produced by Gardena Buddhist Church Ichi-Mi, followed by a group discussion. With an welcome / opening by Rev. Ko’e A. Umezu, assistant minister … Continue reading Diversity & Acceptance in Buddhaʻs Vow

The Actorsʻ Group (TAG) is presenting Rotterdam, directed by Ron Heller,  from July  28 - August 20 at the TAG Theater. Alice is finally ready to tell her parents that she’s lesbian, when her partner, Fiona, says “I just want to stop trying to be a woman.”  Fiona is going to transition – she will … Continue reading Rotterdam | The Actorsʻ Group