By: Ashlyn Brothers
TULSA, Oklahoma -
Oklahomans gathered downtown this weekend for the state’s longest-running LGBT Pride festival. The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center said this year’s festival is the biggest it has ever held. Families come in all shapes and sizes. All genders and ethnicities. Everything,” Comfort Keidel said.
Keidel is pansexual and believes you do not have to look alike to love alike. I see you. There s a difference with you,” Keidel said. “Guess what? There s a difference with me and in that there s connection and there s community.”
The Family Equality Council said research shows 63% of LGBTQ people planning families expect to use assisted reproductive technology, foster care or adoption to become parents.
Fans Show Support For Norman High School Team Racially Insulted By Announcer
Oklahomans are showing support for athletes after a high school girls basketball team was the target of a racist attack by an announcer.
Fans of the Norman High School girls basketball team gathered outside the Mabee Center Saturday morning to cheer the club before its state playoff game against Bixby. It feels really sad because it s 2021 and this kind of thing shouldn t really be happening,” Norman High supporter Harper Keidel said.
In a statement, Bixby Public Schools superintendent Rob Miller said he s disgusted by racist comments made by announcer Matt Rowen that were heard during a live stream of a Thursday night playoff game.