Pride echoes throughout Milwaukee during June

Every year during the month of June we celebrate Pride Month with parades, festivals, music, colorful flags, and much more. The Pride movement has grown each and every year to become more inclusive, diverse, and vibrant throughout our city as we use this tremendous platform to recognize the past trials, current contributions, and future prospects of the LGBTQ+ community.

This year, Milwaukee celebrated Pride Month with its 35^th Pride Fest, and 19^th Pride Parade. It warms my heart every year to see our community rally with support and love for all of our city and state’s LGBTQ+ members.

This year to recognize Pride Month at City Hall, we raised the Pride flag over the City Hall complex, and hung the Progress Pride flag in the City Hall rotunda to show our support. Today during our Common Council meeting, I was delighted to host a special recognition for Pride that included a shout out to The Hive, a city employee resource group that seeks to make the City of Milwaukee a safe and thriving workplace and city for LGBTQ+ employees, families, and allies, through recruitment, retention, and support of the LGBTQ+ community in City employment and services.

Though they have only been a formal group for a short time, The Hive has done tremendous work thus far to achieve their mission and ensure all LGBTQ+ employees feel welcome and supported in their place of work. This is just one of the many advocacy groups that exists in Milwaukee, and I look forward to all the great things they will accomplish in the future.

As we start to wind down another Pride Month, I hope to keep this momentum and energy going well beyond the month of June as there is still more work to be done to combat violence against our transgender community, and strengthen civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people and families, among other issues.

Happy Pride Month Milwaukee!

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. It has not been verified for its accuracy or completeness.