Ohio University’s Pride Week, which begins Monday, is composed of a single event. Last year’s Pride Week included seven events.
Monday would typically mark the start of Ohio University’s Pride Week — a celebration of individual identities and safe spaces for people to express themselves.
But this year’s Pride Week is more of a Pride Day because there will be just one event, a Wednesday program titled “Be Proud.” The program, held at the Scripps Amphitheater, will welcome LGBTQA+ people who want to share stories about their identities.
The event has the potential to be a good one, but the events scheduled for this year’s Pride Week pale in comparison to the schedules of past years.
Last year’s Pride Week consisted of seven events. Kye Allums, a former George Washington University basketball player, who was the first openly transgender Division 1 athlete, was brought in as a speaker.
Based on what we’ve reported, it seems as if there wasn’t enough prior planning to make this year’s Pride Week an actual week full of events.
A campus group that has been marginalized in the past doesn’t have as ample of an opportunity to celebrate and express what it believes in as it has had in past years.
That’s unfair. An event that holds such prestige should have a fuller schedule. Instead, poor planning by some has failed many.
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