Terrie Vorono

Terrie Vorono

Terrie Vorono is the current President of PFLAG San Diego County and is a board member of GLSEN San Diego. In a conversation decades ago she said, “If the world needs a parent for a gay child, let it be me.” She is the mother of two sons, Ben and Jake; Ben is gay. After sharing the information with her parents, they invited her to hear some people from PFLAG at an adult education class.

Terrie attended a PFLAG SDC meeting 12 years ago and discovered people who could teach her how to be an advocate for her son and other people’s children. She asked to attend a board meeting and was invited to assume a board position and to become a support group facilitator. She’s served in many roles in the chapter and as president for several years.

She attended a GLSEN board meeting to learn how PFLAG could support their mission and now serves on the board attending meetings and helping wherever she can at events.

As PFLAG SDC President, Terrie is grateful for the opportunity to meet other LGBTQ supporting organization members, advocate for youth and the LGBTQ community, educate herself and others, and support families that have questions and concerns. She’s had the pleasure of sharing the PFLAG message in Portugal and with visitors from around the globe who hope to use PFLAG as a model to create a network of informed, supportive families worldwide. She has learned so much from the strong voices in the LGBTQ and ally communities in San Diego and is forever grateful for their generosity. She thanks her parents for teaching her that all human beings deserve respect and kindness and for guiding her to PFLAG.

As of this though pales in comparison to her fearless dedication to our LGBTQ youth as an advocate and activist on the front lines of service. Terrie helped PFLAG lead the charge, alongside Pride, The Center, and GLSEN,  to reform San Diego Unified School District’s policies and implementation for LGBTQ youth. For years she has served on the Community Leadership Council’s Youth Services and Advocacy Committee, and SDUSD’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee.  Without Terrie’s bold passion, visionary dedication, and relentless strength, our region’s LGBTQ youth would not have seen the level of progress we all now know and love in San Diego. She is the embodiment of the word ally, and a true Friend of Pride.

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About San Diego Pride

San Diego Pride raises funds primarily through festival ticket and beverage sales, and through sponsorships, and exhibitor fees. These funds support San Diego Pride’s community philanthropy which has distributed more than $2.5 million in advancement of its mission to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities locally, nationally, and globally.