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At Social Solutions, our customers change lives every day. The work they do day in, day out impacts the lives of their communities and aims to make the world a better place. During Pride Month, the world’s LGBTQ+ communities come together to celebrate the freedom of being their true selves, honor the achievements made by pillars of the LGBTQ+ community, and to bring awareness to issues the community still faces. Social Solutions is proud to work with nonprofit organizations dedicated to making an impact on a wide variety of LGBTQ+ issues. Read on to learn about some of the amazing organizations we partner with and visit their websites to learn more about their organization, Pride Month, and how you can get involved.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, we honored 50 LGBTQ icons over Pride month.

Room & Board is a national modern furniture retailer headquartered in Golden Valley, with store locations locally in Edina and across the country. 

We are proud to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month every June to honor the Stonewall Riots of 1969, a tipping point for the gay rights movement. At Room & Board, we recognize and support our LGBTQ peers and customers and acknowledge the influence that LGBTQ people have had around the world.

The two top priorities for LGBTQ rights advocates didn’t make it.

For both a ban on so-called gay “conversion therapy” and a measure to allow two married women to have the same parental rights as a man-woman married couple failed to gain enough support in the Republican-majority Senate to reach the desk of Gov. Tim Walz.

In this day and age, it is absurd to think that a ban on conversion therapy for vulnerable adults and minors is even being debated. But just last week, Minnesota lawmakers argued over a ban on therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation, and the ban did not pass (“Political is personal on gay ‘conversion,’ ” front page, May 11).