A Call by Youth to Change the Old Ways of Gay Pride

12:30pm | In an article written by our own senior contributor Brian Addison for GetOutLB, Mr. Addison writes an op-ed piece that describes Long Beach's growing younger LGBTQ community and how the city's massively influential Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride (LBLGP) Board is becoming static in its adaptation to the changing times. He states:

[I]t is in this exact respect — the idea that redefining and adapting, working in tangent, create a lucid, larger future where possibilities expand rather than contract — that I want to propose that we need to massively change our Pride. Reformation is not a bad word.

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