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Middletown PrideFEST Returns For 5th Consecutive Year
NBC CT, Telemundo Connecticut, and Comcast are proud to be the exclusive media partners of Middletown PrideFEST during Pride Month! This year the outstanding event will be celebrating its 5th anniversary. The highly successful event was established in 2019 to bring visibility and recognition to the city’s LGBTQIA2S+ citizens, and since then has become one of the largest Pride...
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New Haven's PRIDE Fest Returns to City Green for First Time in 20 Years
PRIDE Fest 2022 is underway in New Haven. It’s been a day-long event filled with music, food and drag. Organizers say up until 2004, the event always took place on the New Haven Green, but because of cost, they had to move it to other locations. PRIDE Fest is part of ‘PRIDE New Haven’, an eight-day-long festival celebrating the culture,…
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New Haven's PRIDE Fest Returns to City Green for First Time in 20 Years
PRIDE Fest 2022 is underway in New Haven.
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Annual PRIDE Fest Steps Off in Hartford
Trumbull Street in Hartford was filled with pride flags and hundreds of people dancing, all coming together to celebrate PRIDE Fest 2022. The event is hosted by Connecticut Latinos Achieving Rights and Opportunities, also known as CLARO. The president of CLARO, Charlie Ortiz, says over 7,000 people were in attendance and there was a little bit of fun for everyone,…
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Annual PRIDE Fest Steps Off in Hartford
Trumbull Street in Hartford was filled with pride flags and hundreds of people dancing, all coming together to celebrate PRIDE Fest 2022.
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U.S. ‘Decades Behind' on Legislation to Fight Online Hate Speech
The arrests of members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Pride march show a continuing problem with hate groups and hate speech in the U.S., says Sophie Bjork-James. The Vanderbilt University anthropology professor joined LX News to discuss how Congress and platforms can take action that could limit hate groups’ ability to spread hateful...
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Biden Signs Executive Order to Protect LGBTQ Community, Ban Conversion Therapy
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday during a Pride event at the White House, directing federal agencies to investigate discriminatory legislative attacks against LGBTQ individuals and banning conversion therapy.
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Jill Biden Calls for Renewed Support of LGBTQ Community: ‘We Will Not Go Back'
During a Pride event at the White House Wednesday, first lady Dr. Jill Biden celebrated social progress while calling for renewed protections as states around the country pass anti-LGBTQ laws. “Your president and I are proud to stand with you and fight beside you, but we know this progress hasn’t reached everyone in the same way.”
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White Supremacists Arrested in Idaho Planned to Riot at Pride Event
Police in Coeur d’Alene Idaho arrested dozens of members from a white supremacist group that were planning to riot at Coeur d’Alene’s Pride event on Saturday.
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Thousands Celebrate at the Fourth Annual PrideFest and March in Middletown
Saturday was a day full of activities in Middletown as people celebrated the city’s fourth annual PrideFest.
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Thousands Celebrate at the Fourth Annual PrideFest and March in Middletown
Saturday is a day full of activities in Middletown as people are celebrating the city’s fourth annual PrideFest. The day kicked off at 2 p.m. with a Pride March. It’s the state’s largest Pride March and more than 50 groups participated. It started in Middletown’s North End, continued down Main Street and stopped near the South Green. After that,...
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Thousands to Gather at Middletown Pride Festival This Weekend
Thousands of people are expected to come out to the Middletown Pride March and Festival this weekend.
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Pride Kicks Off in NYC with Ceremony at Stonewall National Monument
Pride Month kicks off in New York City as the Pride flag was raised over the historic Stonewall National Monument.
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CT LIVE!: Middletown PrideFEST 2022
Support the LGBTQ+ community on June 4th in Middletown.