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The Prattville Pride float participated in the city’s Friday Christmas parade without the before-announced drag queen performer after a federal judge compelled the city to allow the float and provide it with additional police protection.
For Prattville citizens who just wanted to usher in the season with that same continuity present in past celebrations, there is no good will, and thanks to Prattville Pride, there will be no peace either.
U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. ruled on Friday that the City of Prattville must allow a pride float featuring a drag queen to participate in the City’s planned Christmas parade on Friday, also mandating extra police escorts LGBTQ group responsible.
Prattville Pride, the group at the center of the much-debated drag queen Christmas parade float, has filed an injunction against the city after Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie pulled the float, citing safety concerns.
The controversial Prattville Pride Christmas Parade float has been pulled from the event, Mayor Bill Gillespie said in a statement, citing safety concerns for Prattville Pride, participants and attendees.
Prattville Pride, the group planning to host a drag queen on its Christmas parade float, used Giving Tuesday to announce a “holiday fundraiser” to buy chest binders and other “gender-affirming binders and shapewear” for “those in need.”
The City of Prattville has no plans to halt the planned pride float in its annual Christmas parade, despite organizers publicly admitting that the float would feature a drag queen.
The statewide group Clean Up Alabama is trying to put a stop to a float in the Prattville Christmas Parade touted to be “the gayest and merriest ever.”
The Prattville Pride is slated to walk in the city’s famed Christmas parade on a float that it promises will be “the gayest and merriest ever.”
The City of Prattville is slated to host its first-ever Pride event on Sunday, June 23, with live musical entertainment at the “kid-friendly” event in the River Region.