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Florida's LGBTQ groups fear Pride Month festivals are doomed with DEI law
As a sweeping new law looms, local leaders face an agonizing choice: pull funding from local LGBTQ+ Pride festivals or risk being ousted from office.
In Wilton Manors, where rainbow flags adorn every other business and many homes, locals are getting ready for the LGBTQ+ P ride festival on Saturday, June 20 with an estimated crowd of at least 50,000.
This, though, will be the last year the Broward County city can provide $50,000 to the annual Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival because of a new Florida law passed under Gov. Ron DeSantis. SB 1134 banned any municipal support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs or events .
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