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City recognizes Pride

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City recognizes Pride

BASTROP – Bastrop Pride and the city’s LGBTQ community received special honors from government officials earlier this month, despite minor opposing community views.Bastrop City Manager Sylvia Carrillo read out an official city proclamation May 28 designating June as Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall riots of 1968 generally recognized as the catalyst for the queer rights movement, according to the speaker.“Whereas every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to equal and equitable benefit of the law without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability,” Carrillo ...

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