Capital Pride cancels 2021 parade and festival
Organizations blames COVID-19, hopes for smaller block party in the fall
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Capital Pride Parade Photo: Randy Shulman
For the second year in a row, Capital Pride will forego a traditional Pride parade, festival and concert this June, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the scarcity of vaccines to protect against the deadly coronavirus.
Capital Pride Alliance, which organizes the yearly celebration, made the announcement in a news release, expressing hope that a more efficient vaccine rollout might make it possible to hold in-person events sometime around October.
“Our hope is that come fall, we will be able to do something,” Ryan Bos, the executive director of Capital Pride Alliance, told
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