Outreach & Inclusion is Our Mission
Stonewall DFL represents the DFL in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and represents the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in the DFL.
As the official 2SLGBTQIA+ outreach arm of the DFL, we participate in Pride and other events in every corner of the state – educating and registering voters, promoting our endorsed candidates, and creating a pipeline for 2SLGBTQIA+ people to get involved in the DFL Party.
We remind the Party of – and help it fulfill – its obligations of outreach and inclusion for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people.
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Belong to Something Greater!
Stonewall DFL members have voting privileges at all membership meetings and committee meetings; this includes voting for candidate endorsements.
The entire membership generally meets once or twice a year, electing the board of directors which meets monthly. Members are encouraged to be active with our six standing committees which meet with varying schedules. All meetings are public and guests are welcome.
Electing Champions for our Community
Stonewall DFL works for a safe and equitable Minnesota by endorsing and electing 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied candidates for public office and in the Minnesota DFL Party. Our endorsements are important to many Minnesotans who seek our advice in choosing candidates who will champion issues impacting the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Read our just-released 2025 Voter Guide entitled "Municipal Elections Matter More Than Ever" now!
Community Resources
Finding resources that are 2SLGBTQIA+ accepting and friendly has long been a struggle for our community. It has become even harder to do so under a fascist federal government hell-bent on taking the rights of our community away. And as if it couldn't get any worse, due to the government shutdown, the federal government has decided that after November 1st, it will no longer distribute SNAP funds, even though they are legally allowed and obligated to.
People who identify as part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community are significantly more likely to live in poverty. While Stonewall DFL is not a service organization, we view it as part of our mission to ensure that our members and the queer community in Minnesota know about accepting and friendly services that can assist them in their time of need.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of resources to assist members of the queer community in Minnesota.
- The Minnesota Trans Resource Directory- Created and maintained by the Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Expansive Revolutionary Resources and Services (TIGERRS), this directory has everything from food shelves to religious orgs, medical facilities, and hair salons for the trans and broader 2SLGBTQIA+ community. This is a statewide resource.
- Second Harvest Heartland's 'Find Food' Map- Enter your city, county, or address into their search tool to find food banks and other food resources near you. Please note that not all food shelves may be queer friendly.
- Community Resources from Twin Cities Pride
- Aliveness Project Food and Nutrition Services- Please note that you must become a member to access food and nutrition services through the Aliveness Project. See their website for more details.
- OutFront Minnesota
Social Media
Just as in the past years, we will be hosting the bucket of buttons fundraiser at our table. We have hundreds of political buttons and such. Last night we pulled all the buttons together and did a full resort of all the buttons and get them into the right bins and the first picture below is what we are bringing to Rochester this coming weekend. There are several hundred buttons in our ranging from “John Kennedy for President” to the present. and they represent all levels of elected office from federal down to school board down to Board of water and soil conservation.
The fine folks at the “”Bucket of buttons project offers this same opportunity for fundraising to all DFL units and entities. In fact, they will have some items that would be good for silent auction fundraiser. Including a full copy the St. Paul Pioneer Press from November 23rd & 24th, 1963, covering the assassination of President Kennedy. The second picture is the full, back page ad from Dayton’s announcing that they would be closed for the weekend to honor the President.
And finally we have something new in that Blue tin but I am going make y’all guess. Could be cookies, or sewing supplies or maybe the Epstein Files.
Give us your guesses below!
We will have pre-order available at the State Convention next week in Rochester. If you sign up to become a member of Stonewall or renew your membership, you will get a hat! Already renewed for the year? Simply make a donation and fill out the form.
Not going to be at State? Have no fear: the hats will also be available at Twin Cities Pride, online on the DFL website, and at the official DFL booth at the STATE FAIR.
All proceeds will go to support Stonewall DFL and Stonewall DFL endorsed candidates in races across Minnesota.
