In the interest of wellness and safety many events will be ticketed and have. Events will include Outdoor Adventure Week, Family Week, Arts & Qulture, and Taste of PrideFest. In 2021, the annual event will take place over four themed-weeks throughout June. Not done, Storms tied it up tight with a bow by getting the board to require a supermajority vote of at least five to undo it.Ī county attorney later interpreted this as a ban on county funding for gay pride events, on participation by the board as a whole in such events, and on acknowledging such events with proclamations or resolutions. Pete Pride is Florida’s largest LGBT Pride celebration. Storms' motion passed 5-1, with only Kathy Castor, now in Congress, objecting to the use of the dais as a billboard for bigotry. So much for elected officials making individual decisions about a specific event on its merits. The lack of capitalization presumably meant not just official Gay Pride events or Gay Pride month, but any hint of gay pride any time.
"I move that we adopt a policy that Hillsborough County government abstain from acknowledging, promoting or participating in gay pride recognition and events, little g, little p," she said.
Storms swiftly got the issue of gay pride on the commission agenda and proceeded to squash it like a bug.
It was classic Storms: In 2005, a kerfuffle erupted over a display of gay-themed books in a branch library during gay pride month. (Conveniently, the current one is embroiled in a porn scandal.) So it's especially important to remember what she left behind. Short Title: Miles Pride and Preston Andrews. Storms, who went on to the state Senate, is back on the local ballot hoping to come home as county property appraiser. Short Title: Straight Florida Hot Guy Likes First Gay Anal Sex.