The Pagosa Pride Planning Team announces the date of the first annual Pagosa Pride Festival, June 21; the location, Town Park; and the time, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This second event follows last year’s first festival, which was a great success and drew about 200 folks; this year is projected to be bigger and better.
The event this year will include an Indigenous land acknowledgment, jams by DJ Wise Man, an inspirational keynote speech by homegrown local Kat Martinez, drag trivia, community art, food trucks, a kids’ corner, face painting, hair tinsel, a photo booth, nonprofit resources, craft vendors and much more. Thoughtful moments will be interspersed with lots of just plain fun.
The Pagosa Pride Festival celebrates diversity in our community by creating an inclusive space, and opportunities to foster advocacy for equity and social justice for people of all colors, gender identities and sexual orientations to feel safe and welcome in Pagosa Country.
These words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg capture the concept: “We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good” and “…pulling together for the common good” always a basic practice of a democracy, is now more than ever, a survival practice.
Interfaith support for this first annual Pagosa Pride Festival includes the Pagosa Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Community United Methodist Church and St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church.
The planning team invites our community to participate in the celebration in any one of several different ways: as a sponsor, a vendor or a local business or nonprofit and, of course, as an attendee, all roles that expand the network of support for our 2SLGBTQIA+BIPOC community.
For more information, see the Pagosa Pride Facebook page or email pagosapride@gmail.com.
