Wyoming Equality; more celebrate Pride Month

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming Information Now) – June is Satisfaction Month throughout the nation, and the celebration doesn’t cease right here in Wyoming.

“Satisfaction Month is a good time to have a good time the LGBTQ+ group, lesbian homosexual bisexual two spirit – two spirited of us we now have two enrolled tribes right here in Wyoming, queer intersex asexual of us, it’s a time for our group to have a good time and acknowledge that we haven’t all the time had rights.” – stated Sara Burlingame, Govt Director of Wyoming Equality.

While progress has been made within the struggle for equal rights, however Burlingame says there may be room to develop.

She stated, “So proper now we now have a patchwork of rights the place you may get married on a Friday after which you may come and present up at your job and get fired on a Monday only for being who you’re, who you’re keen on, or the way you current your gender. and that’s not honest.”

That’s why Burlingame and others are preventing for federal passage of the equality act- which might amend civil rights regulation to incorporate sexual orientation and gender id.

This month President Biden is asking on congress to behave. However the laws continues to face sturdy Republican opposition in congress, as critics concern it should violate spiritual freedom.

We spoke with the Communications Director of the ACLY of Wyoming, Janna Kramer, who stated “LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit individuals have made some unbelievable leaps ahead by way of rights, however the struggle for equality isn’t over. As a result of there’s issues that occur each day in Wyoming and throughout the nation that simply remind us that we aren’t all equal and that we have to get to a spot the place we’re all equal. I imply Wyoming is the equality state lets make it occur.”

Wyoming Equality plans to have a good time delight with occasions in Casper on June twelfth, and Laramie beginning on the seventeenth. Extra occasions are additionally scheduled throughout the state over the subsequent month.

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