[1] glendaleOUT formed out of a 2019 multi-venue Pride Month event for art created by Glendale Unified School District students.
[2] One of the organization's founders, local artist Grey James, later remarked, "Silver Lake, West Hollywood... why do I have to export my gay?
An inaugural LGBT Pride event was planned to be held in Glendale's Central Park in 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in its cancellation.
[8] Following an anti-LGBT+ protest at the June 6, 2023 Glendale Unified School District Board of Education meeting, glendaleOUT took on a more active role in addressing hate in local schools, noting that the protest and uptick in hateful rhetoric resulted fewer students participating in gender-sexuality alliance events.
Other panelists included museum trustee Eric Lynxwiler, filmmaker Rachel Mason, sex educator Buck Angel, neon artist Dani Bonnet, and activist Shant Jaltorossian of GALAS LGBTQ+ Armenian Society.