Lubbock’s virtual community resource center for the South Plains LGBTQ+ and Ally community, OUTwest Lubbock, has announced a letter-writing campaign to get Pride Month officially recognized in Lubbock.
PRIDE Proclamation, according to the press release from OUTwest Lubbock, aims to bring the gay community together to peacefully “encourage members of the Lubbock City Council to issue an Official Proclamation declaring June as Pride Month, recognize the broad cultural and entrepreneurial contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to the City of Lubbock and declare that Lubbock is a city that welcomes all.”
This year will also mark the 13th Annual PRIDE Festival for Lubbock PRIDE at the campus of Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts at noon on June 28. OUTwest Lubbock asks members of the City of Lubbock Council to attend the event and present a possible proclamation there. If the members are not able to attend, they ask that they have a representative read the proclamation on or before the event.
“There is much more work ahead of our community to address the disproportionate levels of social, cultural, and political basic human rights among the LGBTQ+ community,” the press release said. “Having our city leadership proclaim the month of June as PRIDE Month is one small step in celebrating the great diversity that makes up the ‘hub city’.”
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