A message from our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

"Hello, everyone! My name is Johnathan Rodriguez, I use the He and Him pronouns and I'm the DEI Officer from Reading Pride Celebration.

I wanted to send positive vibes to everyone during these difficult times. And, even though we are sadden by the cancellation of the [Reading] Pride event, I wanted to remind you that Pride is something that we live every day.

And we, as LGBTQ+ folk, we get to experience that from within so we must celebrate ourselves. But we are also a community, so let’s keep celebrating each other every single day too, and let’s meet for our first Virtual Pride on July 19 and show our community how we do it.

We will get through this. We are strong enough and we are in this together."