Pride Lending is a Lakewood-based mortgage brokerage founded in March 2020 by Andrew Dort, who was named National Association of Mortgage Brokers Broker of the Year in 2022. The company describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ focused mortgage company in the United States, built specifically as a safe space for LGBTQ+ realtors and clients to do business free from discrimination. Pride Lending offers purchase mortgages, refinancing, VA loans, down payment assistance programs, and reverse mortgages, and is licensed in 17 states across the country. The firm was a 2024 Pride in Business Small Business of the Year nominee and a Prism Award recipient. As an LGBTQ+ owned member of the Colorado LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, Pride Lending serves the LGBTQ+ business community in Lakewood.