Tag: Flint Pride
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Flint’s Pride Festival continues to reflect community identities and prioritize health
By Melodee Mabbitt This year, Flint’s Pride Festival will once again be shaped in response to the need for disease prevention and centered on supporting identities that are most vulnerable within Flint’s LGBTQ+ communities. In response to COVID-19 precautions, planning is underway for Flint’s Pride to include its annual cookout and a series of small…
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Village Life: Flint Pride community says, “You are safe here,” offers welcome and celebration
By Meghan Christian I have always considered myself to be an ordinary person. I did well in school, but wasn’t the smartest kid. I was in theatre and choir, but never got the lead or a solo. I have always had great friends, but I wasn’t one of the popular kids. I figured that I…
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Flint Pride Month celebrates history, struggles of LGBTQ community
By Meghan Christian Since 2000, June has been recognized as “Pride Month,” also National LGBTQ History Month. In Flint, activists annually join in the observance, both by offering a hometown event and by reflecting on the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender life here and nationally. The Flint Pride festival will be held from…
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CALENDAR: This month in The Village offers films, music, Flint Pride and more
Compiled and selected by EVM Managing Editor Meghan Christian “This Month:” is a new EVM feature highlighting a selection of interesting events available to our readers – It is not an exhaustive list, rather a sampling of opportunities in the city. Thursday, June 1 Land of Mine 7:30 p.m. Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E.…
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