In The News
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HoCo Executive Shines Light on LGBTQ Pride Month
June has traditionally been LGBTQ Pride Month (originally called Gay Pride) ever since the Stonewall uprising in June 1969 that most historians credit as the birth of the modern gay rights movement. In Howard County, Maryland, the tradition continues…
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HoCo PRIDE Event Will Return For 2021
After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the festival will be Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods…
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Pride festival returning to Howard County this fall after being cancelled last year because of coronavirus
The daylong event on Oct. 9 will be hosted in coordination with the Inner Arbor Trust at the Chrysalis in Symphony Woods in Columbia, said Jumel Howard, chair of the HoCo Pride group…
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Howard's LGBTQ groups planning first Pride parade, community outreach
On a recent rainy Friday night in Columbia, Steve Charing and his husband Bob Ford sat in the lobby of the county’s nonprofit center, a rainbow centerpiece at the table and plates of pasta in front of them, ready to talk about life…
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Howard County’s First LGBTQ Pride Celebration Set For June 29, 2019
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and the Howard County chapter of PFLAG are co-hosting the first-ever LGBTQ Pride celebration in the county on June 29. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the famous Stonewall uprising…
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Howard County hopes first Pride event Saturday will lead to annual celebration
Pride month was borne out of a spontaneous act of resistance in New York City in 1969. On Saturday, exactly 50 years after that spontaneous act of resistance in 1969, Howard County will host its first official event…
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A Prideful First for Howard County
“This year we will finally celebrate Pride right here in Howard County,” states Howard County Executive Calvin Ball who along with the Howard County chapter of PFLAG is co-hosting the historic event…
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HoCo Pride 2019 Officially Launched
A diverse crowd of nearly 300 members of the LGBTQ+ community, allies, and elected officials packed Carroll Baldwin Hall and its outside grounds in Savage, Md. on June 28 to officially kick off HoCo Pride…
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Howard County to Have its First LGBTQ Pride Event in June
Howard County will hold its first Pride festival at the end of June. June was chosen as LGBT Pride Month across the nation as a way to celebrate…
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HoCo Pride to Launch in 2018
At the Howard County executive’s quarterly LGBT Roundtable last month, Jumel Howard, a member of the PFLAG-Howard County Steering Committee, discussed preliminary plans for a Pride celebration to take place…
