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Pink Spots Connecting LGBTQ+ community with welcoming businesses, events & resources since 2007. Thanks for taking the time to visit!

We provide the community with a comprehensive resource directory of gay-owned & gay-friendly businesses that treat all individuals in a dignified & non-discriminatory manner. We believe that our dollars should be spent with those businesses that respect and support us, and not with those that pass judgement and hinder our rights to equal treatment. We hope you feel the same and that when you need a product or service you check our resources before making your next purchase. Check out our website or phone apps for up to date calendar of local LGBTQ events, businesses & services in your neighborhood.

Got pets? We’ve got connections. 🐾Finding someone you trust with your furry family members matters — whether you need a ...
10/22/2026

Got pets? We’ve got connections. 🐾

Finding someone you trust with your furry family members matters — whether you need a veterinarian, groomer, trainer, daycare, boarding or just a good local pet shop.

Gay Pink Spots connects you with local pet businesses and professionals that welcome and support our LGBTQ+ community.

Swipe through to meet just a few of the pet-loving businesses you’ll find on Pink Spots — caring for everything from puppies who need a checkup to pups who need a haircut…and even cats who expect hotel accommodations. 😹

Because our pets deserve good people too.

Find q***r-friendly pet services at:
https://gaypinkspots.com/listing/pets-etc

Today is International Pronouns Day.Pronouns are small words, but using the pronouns someone shares with you is a simple...
10/21/2026

Today is International Pronouns Day.

Pronouns are small words, but using the pronouns someone shares with you is a simple way of showing respect.

International Pronouns Day began in 2018 with a goal of making respecting, sharing and learning about personal pronouns more commonplace — particularly in support of transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people.

There are many different pronouns people may use, and some people use more than one set. Sharing your own pronouns can help make the practice more familiar and reduce assumptions, but nobody should feel pressured to share theirs.

The important part is pretty simple: listen to how people identify themselves, respect what they tell you and do your best to get it right.

And if you make a mistake? Correct yourself, move on and keep trying.

Swipe through to learn a little more.

Wait…LGBTQ+ History Month isn’t always in October? 🌎Nope.Here in the United States, we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month in...
10/20/2026

Wait…LGBTQ+ History Month isn’t always in October? 🌎

Nope.

Here in the United States, we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month in October. But travel around the world and you’ll find q***r history being celebrated at different times of the year — including February and May.

And there are some interesting reasons why.

History Month also isn’t the same thing as Pride Month. Both celebrate our community, but they have different histories, purposes and stories to tell.

So we put together a quick trip around the world to look at when LGBTQ+ History Month is celebrated in a few different places — and how those observances came to be.

Swipe through. You might learn something you didn’t know. We certainly did. 😉

Different places. Different months. One shared idea: our history deserves to be remembered.

10/20/2026

Fascinating

Q***R HISTORY: Happy Birthday, Divine!Born Harris Glenn Milstead on October 19, 1945, Divine became one of q***r culture...
10/20/2026

Q***R HISTORY: Happy Birthday, Divine!

Born Harris Glenn Milstead on October 19, 1945, Divine became one of q***r culture’s most outrageous, unforgettable and gloriously unconventional icons.

A longtime collaborator and muse of filmmaker John Waters, Divine exploded onto the screen in cult classics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Polyester — creating characters that gleefully bulldozed through ideas about beauty, gender, good taste and respectability.

And Divine could do more than shock an audience.

By 1988, Divine reached a much wider audience playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, bringing that unmistakable presence to one of John Waters’ most mainstream successes. Divine was also a recording artist and nightclub performer, taking that larger-than-life persona well beyond the movie screen.

Behind Divine was Harris Glenn Milstead — the Baltimore-born performer whose fearlessness helped turn an underground drag creation into an enduring q***r cultural icon.

Divine once set out to be the “Filthiest Person Alive.”

Instead, Divine became unforgettable.

Happy Birthday, Divine.

Livermore Pride 2026 — What a way to end the season!It may have been pushing 98 degrees on Saturday, but the people we...
10/19/2026

Livermore Pride 2026 — What a way to end the season!

It may have been pushing 98 degrees on Saturday, but the people we met at Livermore Pride were pretty darn cool! ☀️💗

Livermore marked our final Bay Area Pride festival of the season, and what a wonderful way to wrap things up!

We loved seeing so many familiar faces — folx who make a point of visiting our booth year after year — and meeting newcomers to the area who were excited to discover Gay Pink Spots and the LGBTQ+ resources available in their new communities.

We also connected with new community partners who will be joining our next guide, received an incredibly generous donation from a couple who stopped by, and watched our very q***r enamel pins find happy new homes with everyone from the littlest Pride attendees to our older generations.

But perhaps the most meaningful moments came from two gay gentlemen in their 80s who stopped by separately to thank us for continuing to carry the torch. Both shared stories of showing up at city council and school board meetings back in the 1980s, demanding safer, more inclusive policies and respect for our community.

For the second weekend in a row, we were reminded that the visibility and celebrations we enjoy today were made possible by generations of people who refused to be invisible.

To those who came before us, those celebrating alongside us, and those who will carry the torch forward — thank you. ❤️

And to everyone who visited our booth, supported our work, made a donation, or simply stopped to say hello, you made this a beautiful end to our Bay Area Pride season.

Until next year, Livermore! 🩷

Today is LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day.LGBTQ+ community centers serve more than 3 million people each year — providing eve...
10/19/2026

Today is LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day.

LGBTQ+ community centers serve more than 3 million people each year — providing everything from youth programs and support groups to health services, food assistance, housing resources, legal referrals and places to simply find community.

And right here in the Bay Area, LGBTQ+ centers and organizations are doing that work every day — connecting people with resources, support, activities and one another.

For LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day, we took a closer look at what these organizations do, the challenges they face and why community centers still matter.

Swipe through to see just some of the organizations serving our communities throughout the Bay Area.

Then read our new article on Gay Pink Spots:
https://gaypinkspots.com/article/more-than-a-place-to-gather-why-lgbtq-community-centers-still-matter.html

And from there, you can find LGBTQ+ community centers throughout the region and discover what’s happening in your own community.

Q***R HISTORY: William “Bill” ThomOn October 18, 1973, something remarkable happened in LGBTQ+ legal history.Lambda Lega...
10/18/2026

Q***R HISTORY: William “Bill” Thom

On October 18, 1973, something remarkable happened in LGBTQ+ legal history.

Lambda Legal was officially authorized to practice law — but getting there had required a legal fight just for the organization to exist.

Attorney William “Bill” Thom had envisioned an organization that could use the courts to fight for gay rights. When its application to become a nonprofit was initially rejected, Lambda Legal essentially became its own first client — and ultimately won.

The beginnings were remarkably modest: $25 in the bank and the name “Lambda Legal” taped to the mailbox of Thom’s apartment with a Band-Aid.

From there grew an organization that would spend the next five decades fighting landmark legal battles affecting LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV.

Thom continued breaking barriers himself, becoming New York’s first openly gay judge in 1984.

Sometimes history begins with thousands of people marching in the streets.

And sometimes it begins with $25, a determined lawyer and a Band-Aid on a mailbox.

Today marks the beginning of Genderfluid Visibility Week.Observed October 17–24, the week celebrates genderfluid people ...
10/17/2026

Today marks the beginning of Genderfluid Visibility Week.

Observed October 17–24, the week celebrates genderfluid people while creating space for greater visibility, understanding and conversation about genderfluid identities.

Genderfluid describes a gender identity that isn’t fixed and may shift or change over time. That experience can look different from person to person — there isn’t one way to be genderfluid or one path someone has to follow to understand their gender.

Visibility matters because sometimes simply finding the words for an experience — or seeing someone else whose experience feels familiar — can make the world feel a little less lonely.

Swipe through to learn a little more about genderfluidity and some of the ways people may experience it.

To the genderfluid members of our community: we see you, we celebrate you, and we’re glad you’re here.

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