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Saturday, June 25, 2011

PrideFest 2011 Will Include Clayton-Richmond Heights Backers

Residents and organizations in Clayton and Richmond Heights demonstrate their support for the LGBT community this weekend.

Beginning at 11 a.m. today, a community-wide festival and tribute to the Stonewall Riots of 1969 will kick off in the form of PrideFest 2011. Held in Tower Grove Park today and Sunday until 8 p.m. both days, this annual event is a celebration of the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community (LGBT). Clayton and Richmond Heights will have a presence at the weekend’s festivities in the form of attendees and associations who are listed as vendors: St. Louis Hillel at Washington University; Lutherans Concerned/ North America at Bethel Lutheran Church; AVAP of Alive, Inc.; Ethical Society of St. Louis; and Alex Waldbart Florist. “From the Jewish community’s standpoint, we want to be there to show that our community supports the LGBT community…

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