Gay pride festival is planned for Pence's hometown
Columbus, Ind. — the hometown of Vice President Pence — will hold its first LGBTQ Pride festival on April 14.
The event is being spearheaded by Erin Bailey, a senior at Columbus Signature Academy-New Tech, according to HuffPost. Bailey organized the festival as her high school senior project.
“It’s this massive undertaking and it’s political risky,” Samantha Aulick, who is supporting the festival, told The Hill on Wednesday. “We live in a conservative community.”
Aulick has lived in Columbus with her wife, Alexa Lemley, for decades but has never seen an event of this kind before in their city of roughly 50,000 people.
“I am organizing Columbus Pride Festival because I feel it is important for members of the LGBTQ community to know that Columbus is a welcoming and diverse community,” Bailey told HuffPost. “Even though Mike Pence is openly anti-gay, that doesn’t mean that all of us in his hometown are.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/380658-high-school-student-planning-first-gay-pride-parade-in-pences