"We’ve received so much support, it’s kind of unbelievable." "We’ve had help from Albuquerque Pride, from Santa Fe Pride, from New York Pride, from Taos Pride," she said. (SNAPI) organizes and hosts the annual LGBT PRIDE Parade & Festival in Las. promoting, and celebrating lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender pride. Las Vegas PRIDE, also known as the Southern Nevada Association of PRIDE, Inc. But organizers said they are working with local police, who are confident they can keep the peace. View Las Vegas PRIDE (location in Nevada, United States.
"We’re going to keep progressing until we feel that we have a place here, until we can feel free to move about the town and about campus."īucklin said other students have raised objections to the event, and she’s a little nervous, because she doesn’t want anything bad to happen at the town’s first Pride. "We’re going to keep moving forward," she said. She said she hopes the parade will promote visibility and help fight discrimination.
Maysie Bucklin is the co-founder of PRISM-Promoting Respect for Identity and Sexuality Movement-the first chartered club at Highlands University for LGBTQ students.
College students in Las Vegas, New Mexico are launching the town’s inaugural Pride parade on Saturday, April 27. Pride parades are common around the country, but they’re still making their way to smaller communities. It’s the catalyst for many Pride parades around the U.S., and in honor of that anniversary, students are throwing the first-ever Pride celebration in Las Vegas, New Mexico this weekend. It’s been 50 years since Stonewall, a night when the LGBTQ community resisted a police raid in New York.