Pasadena City Hall (Photo – Gareth Peries)
PASADENA, ColoradoBoulevard.net:
The Pasadena Public Health Department, Pasadena Public Library and Pasadena Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department will host Pasadena’s annual Coming Out Day Celebration on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in the Pasadena City Hall Courtyard (100 N. Garfield Ave).
By News Desk
This year’s keynote speaker will be research biologist and activist Rochelle Diamond, chair emeritus of Out to Innovate (formerly known as the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, or NOGLSTP) and director of the Flow Cytometry/Cell Sorting Facility at Caltech). Diamond participates in the Caltech community on a number of levels, including membership on the LGBTQ working group committee, establishing the Caltech Mentoring Day with the Caltech Career and Development Center, working career fairs on behalf of the Caltech Academic Partnership with MentorNet and more. She has been awarded the Lesbians and Bisexual Women Active in Community Empowerment (L.A.C.E.) Award by the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the Walt Westman Volunteer of the Year Award by NOGLSTP.
The celebration at City Hall, moderated by Tyanta “Tigger” Snow, will also feature Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles, the first LGBTQ mariachi band, led by director Carlos Samaniego. The group performs its repertoire to suit the LGBTQ community while maintaining the highest level of musicality. Special performance by Los Angeles Drag Queen Borgia Bloom Façade will be sponsored by The Boulevard in Pasadena. The event will also include an opening show and music, speakers from the LGBTQIA+ community, a resource fair, prize drawings, Flu Shots, COVID Boosters, and Monkey Pox Vaccines.
Pasadena’s celebration is for all ages and coincides with the 34th anniversary of National Coming Out Day, launched to recognize the first National March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights and to remind all of us of the power of coming out.
Nearly one in two Americans knows someone who is gay or lesbian, and one in ten knows someone who is transgender. Coming out still matters—whether as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual. Sharing stories, helps raise awareness and change perspectives. When people know someone who is LGBTQIA+, they are far more likely to support equality under the law.
The City of Pasadena is an inclusive city, accepting of everyone regardless of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, marital status, socio-economic status, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or disability.
Edited by Ann Hunnewell
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