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Lexington Hosts Pride Rally And March

Lexington Fairness via Facebook

A crowd estimated at about 1,000 gathered in Lexington Sunday for the community’s first LGBTQ Pride Rally and March.

Organizers say the event on the downtown Courthouse Square was planned in “solidarity” with a national rally in Washington, D.C.

Josh Mers is chair of Lexington Fairness, one of the groups involved in making the rally and a subsequent march happen.

“Today is not about protesting," Mers said. "Today is about celebrating who we are as a community and just reminding those elected leaders and those that want to represent us that this community pays attention and we will not be silent.”

In addition to introducing numerous speakers, Mers led the crowd in a moment of silence in memory of the victims of last year’s mass-shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Today marks the first anniversary of the deaths of 50 people in the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.

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