23 Facts About PFLAG

PFLAG is the United States' first and largest organization uniting parents, families, and allies with people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.

PFLAG National is the national organization, which provides support to the PFLAG network of local chapters.

PFLAG has over 400 chapters across the United States, with more than 200,000 members and supporters.

PFLAG is no longer an acronym, but just the name of the organization.

In 2014 the membership of the organization voted to officially change the name to PFLAG to reflect the decades of fully inclusive work it had been doing in the LGBTQ+ community.

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PFLAG gave interviews to radio and television shows in several cities in the weeks that followed, sometimes accompanied by her husband or son.

The first PFLAG office was established in Los Angeles under founding president Adele Starr.

In 1987, PFLAG relocated to Denver, under President Elinor Lewallen.

Also in the 1980s, PFLAG worked to end the US military's efforts to discharge lesbians—more than a decade before military issues came to the forefront of the LGBT movement.

In 1990, following a period of significant growth, PFLAG employed an Executive Director, expanded its staff, and moved to Washington, DC.

PFLAG was the first national LGBT organization to officially adopt a transgender-inclusive policy, vowing not only to include transgender people in all of its work, but never to support any policies or laws that are not trans-inclusive.

In 2017, PFLAG celebrated the 45th anniversary of founder Jeanne Manford's famous march with her son, gay-rights activist Morty Manford.

In 2009, PFLAG launched Straight for Equality in Healthcare to educate and engage healthcare providers in all disciplines to be more culturally inclusive in their work.

In 2012, PFLAG launched Straight for Equality in Faith Communities, which features faith-focused resources and tools for people of all denominations to start having critical conversations in their faith communities to create more welcoming institutions.

Each year since 2009, PFLAG National has held the Straight for Equality Awards Gala, the only awards gala that exclusively celebrates the contributions of straight allies to the movement for LGBT equality.

PFLAG Connects was created in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PFLAG National launched PFLAG Connects: Communities which are national support group meetings for a variety of BIPOC communities.

PFLAG threatened to sue PFLAG and any television station that aired the project's ads, which showed clips of anti-LGBT quotes from several people, including Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and United States Senator Jesse Helms.

PFLAG put the Religious Right on the defensive, when Pat Robertson threatened to sue any station that carried Project Open Mind advertisements.

The resulting media coverage drew national attention to PFLAG's message linking hate speech with hate crimes and LGBT teen suicide.

PFLAG National campaigned to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" and in the fight for marriage equality in the United States—including filing an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court.

PFLAG National provided guidance and support to Degrassi: The Next Generation when the show introduced its first transgender character, Adam Torres, in 2010.

PFLAG National is featured heavily throughout seasons two and three of Love, Victor on Hulu.