Yachats Pride, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2017 on the central Oregon Coast. We exist to celebrate, support, and center the LGBTQIA+ community in Yachats and beyond, through an annual three-day Pride festival that is free, accessible, and entirely community-built.

We Are

RURAL PRIDE MATTERS, okay?

"Queer joy isn't always present in rural communities?! It's just not true. It's always here, and we center and celebrate it at Yachats Pride." — Emily Crabtree, Yachats Pride Board Member

  • 2017 — the year it all started

  • 9 years of Pride on the Oregon Coast

  • 3 days of programming every June

  • 300+ attendees per day

  • 900+ over the full weekend

  • 100% of performers paid for their art

  • 0 people turned away for lack of funds

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Yachats Pride started the way the best things do, with a small group of people who believed their community deserved to be celebrated, showing up and making it happen. What began in 2017 as a gathering in a small coastal town as a response to the Pulse Night Club shooting, to gather in vigil has grown into one of Oregon's most beloved Pride events, drawing visitors from Portland, Seattle, Oakland, and beyond who come because they heard Yachats Pride was something different.

We are volunteer-run. We pay every performer in full. We feed everyone who walks through the door, and no one is turned away for lack of funds. A decade in, we are still showing up every June like it is the most important thing we do. Because it is.

OUR STORY

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

“The Rhinestone Gang”

Every great rodeo needs a crew. Meet ours.

WANTED

EMILY CRABTREE AKA: Two-Whips Crabtree The Maverick · Trans Tea Party Sheriff · Ringleader.

WANTED FOR: Going coastal over a decade ago and never looking back. Building Perpetua Records into the grooviest vinyl shop on the Oregon Coast. Moonlighting as a sideshow whip and knife thrower while holding down a day job serving folks in need for Lane County. Creating and moderating the Trans Tea Party with the skill of someone who was born to hold space and the nerve of someone who also throws knives. Using her OG party girl skills exclusively for good.

LAST SEEN: Somewhere between the stage and the green room with a clipboard and a whip.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Will absolutely bring the audience to tears at the Trans Tea Party. Mixed media artist. Musician. Booker. Force of nature. Scorpio sun, Pisces moon, Scorpio rising.

REWARD: A seat at the Tea Party and our eternal gratitude.

WANTED

RAYCHEL MCCABE AKA: The Ghost · Woman of Mystery and Mother of The Bookkeeper

WANTED FOR: Undisclosed activities. Investigation ongoing. Believed to be extremely fun and operating somewhere on the Oregon Coast under circumstances we have not been able to confirm.Undisclosed activities. Investigation ongoing. Believed to be extremely fun and operating somewhere on the Oregon Coast under circumstances we have not been able to confirm.

LAST SEEN: Unknown. That is kind of her whole thing.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Extremely fun. Highly elusive. Considered charming and dangerous in equal measure.

REWARD: If you see her, tell her we need her.

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

WANTED

CC WELLS AKA: The Wrangler Volunteer Coordinator · Ice Cream Slinger · Cartoonist

WANTED FOR: Being the best darn volunteer wrangler west of the Rockies. Scooping ice cream by day. Drawing comics by night. Volunteering for Yachats Pride on and off since 2018 like a lifelong Waldportian who knows where her people are. Living in a house that is almost certainly haunted and letting that inform her art in ways that are frankly impressive.

LAST SEEN: Waldport. Born there. Never fully left. We respect it enormously.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: 99% sure her house is haunted. The other 1% is also probably haunted. These two things are not directly correlated but greatly affect one another. Aries sun · Capricorn moon · Leo rising.

REWARD: A scoop of whatever flavor she recommends.

WANTED

CLOVER McCABE AKA: The Bookkeeper Treasurer · Preschool Teacher · Crafty Queen · Fur Mama

WANTED FOR: Keeping the books, keeping the peace, and keeping one wild pup and two sweet kitties alive simultaneously. Teaching preschool in Depoe Bay with patience that frankly should be studied. Eight years on the Pride planning committee and still showing up like it is the first time every single time.

LAST SEEN: Crafting something. Reading something else. Doing both at the same time somehow.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Can balance a nonprofit budget and a classroom full of preschoolers in the same afternoon without breaking a sweat. Avid reader. Lifelong Oregonian. Genuinely one of the good ones. Libra sun. Cancer moon. Gemini rising.

REWARD: Whatever her fur babies will allow us to offer.

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

WANTED

OLIVIA CROOKER AKA: The Potter · Photographer · Ceramicist

WANTED FOR: Photographing precious things, gardening, and pursuing ceramics with the intensity of someone who has found their true calling. Finding beauty in everything she points a lens at.

LAST SEEN: Looking extremely hot in a photo from three years ago. We support this fully and have no further questions.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Will absolutely be rocking a bandana. Has strong feelings about a well thrown pot. Gardener of feelings, photographer of precious things, ceramicist by way of obsession. · Aries sun · Cancer moon · Aries rising.

REWARD: One perfectly thrown pot and our deepest respect.

WANTED

VALENTINE ADAMS AKA: The Newcomer · Baker · Bean Slinger · Finder of Magic

WANTED FOR: Arriving in Oregon and immediately making herself indispensable. Bringing fresh eyes, fresh baked goods, and fresh energy to the Rhinestone Gang. Slinging beans by day. Baking sweets by night. Learning how to take care of mother earth and all of its beautiful humans with the earnestness of someone who really means it. Curating the best playlists. Beguiling with her Horchata. Making everything cozy and magical wherever she goes.

LAST SEEN: Packing a picnic basket headed for the water or hunting for Victorian thrift finds somewhere in the city.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Always looking for the next bit of magic. Already one of us. Cancer sun · Taurus moon · Libra rising.

REWARD: Whatever is coming out of the oven right now.

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

WANTED

Hannah

WANTED

LISA HAUKOM AKA · Hot Mom · Press Guru · Dog Lover · Proud Mom of a Rhinestone Gang Member in Training

WANTED FOR: Showing up for this community with her whole chest. Press wrangling, telling tall tales, website fancification and making a mean oatmeal marmalade cookie.

LAST SEEN: Somewhere between Florence and Portland, raising a future sassy member of the Rhinestone Gang and planning world domination.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Here for the fun, the love, and the unshakeable belief that everyone deserves to be celebrated. Gemini rising. Dog lover. Will find the story in everything.

REWARD: A byline, a really good glass of wine, and a front row seat at the Hootenanny.