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community BORO PRIDE CELEBRATES 4TH YEAR by Christopher Kingsley | photos courtesy of Dr. William Langston Pride is everywhere in the summer. From June to August, Pride events worldwide have been bringing together LGBTQ brethren and their supporters and advocates by the thousands. Here, closer to home, Pride events stretch across the volunteer state from Memphis, Nashville to Rocky Top Tennessee in Knoxville. But even closer to home, in Murfreesboro, Boro Pride, which is celebrating its fourth year, has proven to be a success story bathed in rainbow colors. I asked Dr. William Langston, who is the volunteer coordinator for the festival, about Boro Pride. “We’ve enjoyed amazing community support and have sold all exhibitor spaces each year,” he states. “People coming to pride go to local businesses to eat and shop while they’re on the square. I think we’ve had nothing but positive feedback. A lot of Murfreesboro businesses also support through sponsorships and giveaways.” Brendan Holloway had the original idea of a Pride event in Murfreesboro back in June 2016. “I was serving as the Chair of the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) Rutherford County Committee. At one of our committee meetings, an attendee mentioned how they wished we could have a pride event closer to Murfreesboro, so people wouldn’t have to drive to Nashville. I heard them say this and immediately thought, why can’t we have a pride event in Murfreesboro?”, said Holloway. He continues, “I quickly reached out to Chris Sanders, Executive Director of TEP, and pitched the idea of having a pride event later that year. He encouraged the idea, so we formed a sub-committee within the TEP Rutherford County Committee to work on creating the event. We had a meeting the last week of June and decided that we wanted to move forward with the event.”The team met on a weekly basis and had the first ever Boro Pride on August 27, 2016. More than 1,000 people attended the event with over 50 vendors exhibiting. Since then, the event has grown substantially. Holloway reflects back on the first Boro Pride which was organized in surprisingly short order, “I have no idea how we pulled it off in such a short amount of time, but we did it. We really did it.” While Holloway is no longer on the planning committee, he still actively supports Boro Pride in whatever way he can and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Equality Project. Be sure to mark your calendar, Boro Pride starts at 5:00pm on September 7, 2019. The Pride Walk will begin at 5:30pm and entertainment will include: Flummox, The Dead Deads, The Hardin Draw, Sisters Mann and of course the fabulous drag show hosted by IONA to close the event. Page 14 / focusmidtenn.com / SEP+OCT SEPT+OCT 2019 // SUCCESS
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