Mike Pence's hometown held its first LGBT pride festival today & it was incredible

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation




By Bil Browning · Saturday, April 14, 2018

High school student Erin Bailey is going to get an A on her senior project. She just pulled off something no one else has. She hosted a pride festival in notoriously anti-LGBT Vice President Mike Pence’s hometown.

Over 1,000 people braved chill winds and rain to show support for the LGBT community in Columbus, Indiana. Shortly after the event started, the rain died off and the sun came out to shine on the parade of people streaming through the downtown streets.

The city of 47,000 people welcomed the visitors warmly. The Old National Bank downtown had rainbow colored banners in the windows touting diversity and inclusion.

Cummins Engine Company, the Fortune 500 company that inadvertently kicked off the town’s first LGBT protest in 2000 when it began offering domestic partner benefits, flew the rainbow flag over their corporate headquarters.

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/04/mike-pences-hometown-held-first-lgbt-pride-festival-today-incredible/

[Glorfindel]

1. Yay! That's the kind of good news we need more of!

Thanks, DonViejo!

[FM123]

2. Fantastic!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I wonder where 'ol silver cap was?

Probably doing chores for his mother.

[snort]

6. Scrubbing the bathroom floor with a toothbrush.

[WhiteTara]

10. With Mommy standing over him.

[forgotmylogin]

13. Probably practicing Blue Steel in the mirror:

"I, Michael Richard Pence, do solemnly swear to execute the office of..."

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Best news I have seen in a while.

1000 great people making the point that they simply will not go away or be forced to be "changed" by terrorists like pence

[gademocrat7]

5. Excellent!

Love not hate.

[Hekate]

7. Heartwarming!

[oasis]

8. Good stuff!

[Habibi]

9. Oh, that

that does a heart good.

[mcar]

11. A+

[Wellstone ruled]

12. So let me get this straight,

Mike Pence's Brother who is CEO of Cummins flew the Rainbow. Oh my .

[NNadir]

14. I can't speak of Pence's brother, but I wouldn't want to be defined by mine.

I haven't spoken to my brother in over 15 years, and only interacted with him marginally in the ten years before I cut him off.

I don't know what kind of guy Pence's brother is, but it's very possible that he's nothing like his bigot brother.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Carbon Copy .

[NNadir]

24. OK, I'll take your word for it, not that I care about the Pence family except to the extent that...

...the VP is, like his boss, a horrible mindless bigot with complete disregard for his country and its citizens, and we are facing the possibility that one awful man may be replaced by an equally awful man possessed of awful power.

All I was saying is that it did not have to be so. The sins of a brother do not necessarily extend to one's self.

[Wellstone ruled]

27. Cummins Engines has a plant in Russia.

Which is Russia's major source of Diesel Engines.

[crazycatlady]

25. I would not want to be defined by my sister

[Maxheader]

15. A wonderfull gathering..

of people with peaceful intent...
peaceful intent...such an alien concept for
the gop asshats..

[Aristus]

16. So shines a bright light in a darkening world...

[Upthevibe]

17. Excellent!

Great to hear..........

[raven mad]

19. YUUUUUUGE smiles from Indiana's northern friends!

Three of my besties called me earlier - and yes, Jack, the walls are tumbling down. Cath - if they do it again next year I agree 100% you could do an amazing job on zip budget with costume & set design!

Go get 'em Columbus!! Erin Bailey, YOU ROCKED THE WORLD!!!

[raven mad]

20. YUUUUUUGE smiles from Indiana's northern friends!

Three of my besties (here in town) called me earlier - and yes, Jack, the walls are tumbling down. Cath - if they do it again next year I agree 100% you could do an amazing job on zip budget with costume & set design!

Go get 'em Columbus!! Erin Bailey, YOU ROCKED THE WORLD!!!

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. First of all...WELL DONE!

What a great job by the organizers in general, and Erin Bailey in particular, and what a heartwarming reception from the town.

And Cummins...very nice to hear. I have to admit I missed that story. However, I've known people that worked in a different Cummins facility and they all said it was a good place to work.

[zentrum]

22. So happy to hear this. Thanks.

[LittleGirl]

23. Not everyone from Indiana

Are homophobic and stupid like Pence. He’s an exception and we all hope he goes down with IQ45.

[3Hotdogs]

26. Mother ain't gonna like that shit.