A Message from our Vice President

Hello, everyone! My name is Enrique Castro. I’m the Vice-President of Reading Pride Celebration and my pronouns are He and Him. I wanted to reach out to you all today and let you know that we are sadden as well that our celebration has been cancelled this year in person, but we are excited for the new opportunity to bring you a Virtual Pride Festival.

As we watch all of our Pride Festivals and parades be canceled throughout the country, we feel the same pain, we hurt just like you do, but the reality is that we’re strong enough, we are a very strong community, we love one another, we take care of one another and we don’t need a festival or a parade to celebrate who we are everyday. We do that by living our truths, by loving one another and taking one another. And I would ask that, until our virtual Pride and thorough the year, celebrate who you are. Love yourself, love one another and take care of one and others.

We are here with you in solidarity and we would get through this and emerge as a stronger community.