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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.

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We Are

A woman dressed in vintage Western attire riding a horse with a large hat, braided hair, and decorative clothing accessories.
Group of seven women dressed in vintage cowboy or western-style clothing and hats, standing together and smiling.
Two men dressed in old-fashioned cowboy outfits, with wide-brimmed hats, bandanas, and shaggy chaps, standing close together holding hands, one man has a hand on the other's shoulder.

"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

RURAL PRIDE MATTERS, okay?

Check Out our Numbers

  • 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

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

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EMILY CRABTREE AKA: Switch-Witch Crabnugget · Chaos Queen Connector · 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 vintage & vinyl shop on the Oregon Coast. Moonlighting as a sideshow whip and knife thrower while holding down a day job serving folks in need in Lincoln 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 can also throw shade. Using her/their OG party grrl 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. Always smells amazing. Mixed media visual artist. Musician (she’s lookin’ for a band). Show Booker. Force of nature. Scorpio sun, Pisces moon, Scorpio rising.

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

WANTED

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RAYCHEL McCABEAKA: Juicy Booty MamaCoffee Goddess · Window Muralist · Fine Artist · Real Estate Whisperer · Mother of The Bookkeeper and The Gatherer

WANTED FOR: Making every single person who walks through the door feel like they were expected. Being the reason this gang feels like a family. Keeping the Pacific Northwest caffeinated one cup at a time from her Waldport coffee kiosk. Helping people find their first homes. Advocating fiercely for female empowerment and self love. Being a vibe-maker of the highest order. Having a juicy ass booty.

LAST SEEN: Waldport. Caffeinating someone. Painting something beautiful. Probably both.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Extremely fun. Considered charming and dangerous in equal measure. Mama to 4 incredible humans and countless fur friends. Lover of music, family, the forest, and the ocean. Pacific Northwest native. Neighborhood pee contest champion. This is confirmed. Has a complicated and storied relationship with swing sets. Ask her about it sometime.

REWARD: A cup of whatever she is brewing and a seat at the family table.

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

PRIDE'S MOST WANTED

WANTED

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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 since 2018. Living in a house that is almost certainly haunted and letting that inform her art in ways that are frankly impressive. Committing an act of vehicular floricide against a church flower pot that now requires a ratchet strap to hold itself together.

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. Has a complicated relationship with church property. The pot is still standing, technically. Aries sun, Capricorn moon, Leo rising. Best poses & stunting for all group pics.

REWARD: A scoop of whatever flavor she recommends.

WANTED

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CLOVER McCABE AKA: Keeper of the Loot · 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. Her fantastic & extensive closet. 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

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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. Gladly helping with a birthday ritual sacrifice. Sharing cyanotype creations from a recent artist in residency.

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

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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 hand-raised 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 their Horchata. Making everything cozy and magical wherever they go.

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

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HANNAH BARRETT AKA: The Shrimp Queen · Ol' Finger Bang Pudding Hands · Elder Care Provider · Cat Mom · Bell-Bottom Enthusiast

WANTED FOR: Being a Yachats local since 2015 and a Pride planning team member since 2019. Caring for the elderly with a level of dedication that comes second only to her skill at eating tapioca pudding without a spoon. Powering through life on gummy candy and cosmic Pisces energy. Bringing enormous heart to this community while maintaining a strict no hugs policy.

LAST SEEN: Somewhere in Yachats, rocking bell-bottoms, sporting a shrimp crown, hanging out with her cat Tucci, and refusing to elaborate.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Fist bumper. Known colloquially as Ol' Finger Bang Pudding Hands & Shrimp Queen. Do not ask her to explain either of these. Just accept them.

REWARD: A bag of gummy candy, a respectful wave from across the room, and our complete and total admiration.

WANTED

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LISA HAUKOM AKA · Hot Mom · Press Guru · Dog Lover · Cookie Dealer and Diplomat

WANTED FOR: .Press wrangling, telling tall tales, website fancification, 860-day Kindle streak, and making a mean oatmeal marmalade cookie.

LAST SEEN: Hoarding books and shiny objects somewhere between Florence and Portland while raising a future sassy member of the Rhinestone Gang and planning world domination.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Glowing skin & never gatekeeping a killer how to ! Here for the fun, the love, and the unshakeable belief that everyone deserves to be celebrated. Prefers her Gemini rising or her Capricorn sun. Feels every bit of her Cancer moon. Will find the story in everything.

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