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# Taking Pride
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/stories-stage/episode/taking-pride-lliqz5/
- Published: 2025-06-09T21:31:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T16:42:00.000Z
- Description: Pride often begins with a moment of truth, and a choice to stand by it.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Stories from the Stage, Season 8, Episode 21, #ZZZ_Episode_73117c51-03e3-45d1-9919-3541d394871a, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_6108a615-ed62-4c52-b6cd-6b2e71ee006d, #v1.16

Pride often begins with a moment of truth, and a choice to stand by it. Deb navigates parenting and legal invisibility as a non-biological lesbian mom; JJ journeys from prodigy to queer writer, learning that pride comes from within; and Rev. Irene shares how the AIDS epidemic sparked change in her Black church. Three storytellers, three interpretations of TAKING PRIDE, hosted by Theresa Okokon.