March with Pride for Black Lives Matter announces June 13 Date
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Broderick Pearson (Montell Infiniti Ross), organizer of the First Anniversary March with Pride for Black Lives Matter, announced Sunday, June 13 as the 2021 march date.
As in 2020, the March with Pride for BLM assembly and end point is the PrideFest main admission gate (SummerFest grounds/ Henry Maier Festival Park at E. Chicago Street and N. Harbor Drive). Pre-march rally with speakers begins at 1p.m. with step-off at 2 p.m.
Pearson also named his lead planners who are working directly him to organize March logistics. They include 2020 veterans Angel Vega, Hugo Beam, Kat Klawes, and, joining this year, activist Elle Halo. âMilwaukee Pride President Wes Shaver is collaborating to really make some amazing new features happen on behalf of PrideFest MKE,â Pearson said. As in 2020, videographer Jonathan Charles will produce drone footage for the event.
The 49th annual Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Pride festival known as Twin Cities Pride announced they are moving forward with holding the event at Minneapolis Loring Park from July 17-18. But it will be without the annual concert, fireworks, and parade.Twin Cities Pride Executive Director Dot B
But those fall plans have been called off, Shaver confirmed to the Journal Sentinel Monday. As of now, we are not planning on an October event, Shaver said in an email. We hoped to but we just don t have a clear path to success and time is running out to do an event justice. 2022 it is.
Established in 1987, PrideFest has become one of the most popular annual events in Milwaukee, with a record attendance in 2019 of 45,787 people. It s also one of the largest, and longest-running, LGBTQ+ festivals in the country.
With the COVID-19 pandemic persisting, several summer events in Milwaukee have been called off for a second year in a row, including Polish Fest, German Fest, Festa Italiana, Bastille Days, and as of Monday, the Brady Street Festival.