A local district attorney threatened charges if Blount Pride hosted its planned drag events. The show went on anyway.
One day after Desmond’s letter, the ACLU sued Desmond on behalf of Blount Pride and a drag artist who was scheduled to perform at the event. A federal judge ruled in the festival’s favorEven without threat of prosecution, Blount Pride still faced opposition from anti-LGBT demonstrators, who stood outside the event.Inside the event, however, attendance was booming. Blount Pride organizersAt least one of those attendees traveled across the country for the event.
“When you come to an event like this, you don’t see people who are going back in the closet and hiding. You don’t see people who are scared to be themselves,” Zephyr“You come to these events and you say, ‘You can do many things in the law, but you will not make me deny who I am and you will not make me afraid. I will stand here tall and I will celebrate my existence with my community,’ and that’s what we’re seeing here today and what I’ve been blessed to see around the country.
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