The Omaha World Herald website has online coverage of the city too. The Reader is the local alternative weekly paper with listings, events calendar and reviews.
Omaha Pride has an online overview of the city with ongoing events listings, and Heartland Pride is the annual June LGBT Pride Festival website. The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center at UNO website has local LGBTQ resources information. The Downtown Transit Center, (two blocks of 16th St between Dodge and Farnam), is the major hub for connections to most everywhereĪll of the gay clubs are downtown, within easy walking distance of one another and there is plenty of street parking around them. The Omaha Metro has buses to get you around on public transportation for $1.25. Renting a car is the best way to get around. Taxis, shuttle buses and the number 16 Metro bus are available to bring you downtown. Omaha’s Eppley Airfield is about 7 miles northwest of the city. It shows its true colors for Heartland Pride Day every June, in Omaha.
With more than 1million people living within a 50-mile radius, it’s no surprise Omaha has a sizable gay community. Council Bluffs, part of the metropolitan area, is just across the Missouri River in Iowa. Boasting the country’s largest urban arts colony, the city has the nation's largest community playhouse, the third largest children's theater, an opera, a symphony, and a major art museum. See the CDC website for details and updates.įor local Covid-19 updates see the City of Omaha, Visit Omaha, and Nebraska Medicine websites.īordered by the Missouri River and the Platte River, Omaha Nebraska has many beautiful waterfront parks. There are restrictions on the entry of certain travelers into the United States in an effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19. LGBTQ+ students taught with LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum experience a safer school environment and more academic success,” Wendy Walljasper, Community Services Supervisor for Bethany, said in Friday’s release.Emergency measures in the wake of Covid-19: “All of these issues impact LGBTQ+ youth at a higher rate than their peers. This results in a reduction of high-risk sexual behavior, a decreased incidence of dating violence, an increase in the age of sexual initiation, and it reduces the number of sexual partners in young people. The agency’s Prevention Education programs provide LGBTQ+ individuals with inclusive programs on sexual health, decision making, healthy relationships, self-esteem, and consent.
The study shows that LGBTQ+ youth face unique suicide risk factors including barriers to mental health care, negative impacts of COVID-19, and anti-transgender legislation, according to a Friday release from Bethany for Children & Families. Forty-five percent of LGBTQ youth considered attempting suicide in the last year.īethany for Children & Families serves the LGBTQ+ population through many of its services. The Trevor Project works to end suicide among LGBTQ+ youth.