June Fairness Celebration!

This month is a momentous month. President Obama has declared it to be LGBT Pride Month and Lexington will celebrate it's pride. The city has had 10 years under the protection of a Fairness Ordinance and continues to be one of the most progressive and equality-driven metro areas in Kentucky.

I am proud to be working with Lexington Fairness for this year's Lexington Fairness Awards and Pride Festival. Do you know someone who has exhibited leadership in the LGBT community? If so, please take a few minutes to visit http://tinyurl.com/mqxghh and nominate someone for one of four awards presented annually by Lexington Fairness. The awards are titled: 1) Ally for Fairness Award, 2) Fairness Leadership Award, 3) The Jennifer Crossen Out for Fairness Award and 4) Political Leadership Award. If you know someone who fits within one of those categories (and you can learn more about the criteria for each on the link above), please let us at Lexington Fairness know so we can consider them to receive praise at this year's awards ceremony.

Along with that, please celebrate with us at the Fairness Awards Ceremony! It will take place on June 26th at the Lexington Downtown Hotel (formerly the Radisson). Will call will open at 5:30 p.m. and the ceremony and entertainment will begin at 7 p.m. There are varying price ranges for tickets, so you can select what you can afford. As a prospective table captain, I am looking for 9 people to sit with me! Let me know (craig.cammack@insightbb.com) if you want to take a seat at my table and I can arrange for the ticket!

Finally, the month of June LGBT Pride celebration is capped off with the Lexington Pride Festival, being held on June 27th at Cheapside Park. This is the time for those part of the LGBT community to come together and celebrate together, as well as show the rest of the city that we are here, and we want to help make the city prosper and become diverse in all ways possible. You can find details of the festival at http://lexpride.com/.

Again, always feel free to connect with me at craig.cammack@insightbb.com and I can fill you in on details of the mentioned events. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible and talking with you on the ways we all can work together to make Lexington, Central Kentucky and the entire state a more equal, tolerant and progressive place to live.