Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival Postponed Until 2022

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival, primitively scheduled for Oct. 30, has been postponed until June 4, 2022, organizers said.

The Annapolis Pride Board of Directors said the determination was made to prioritize the wellness and information of the community.

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“We were hopeful that we could travel unneurotic successful idiosyncratic to observe successful October, but with the resurgence of the COVID pandemic and stalling vaccination rates, successful operation with the information that children nether 12 cannot beryllium vaccinated astatine this time, the hazard to the assemblage is conscionable excessively high,” Annapolis Pride laminitis and committee seat Jeremy Browning said successful a statement. “The Delta variant is connected the emergence successful Anne Arundel County and crossed the country. This variant is much transmittable and perchance much deadly to unvaccinated populations than the archetypal strain.”

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Browning implored radical to get vaccinated if they haven’t already and to implore unvaccinated friends, household and neighbors to get the shot.

All participants successful the parade and festival volition person their registration rolled implicit to June, Browning said. Anyone who can’t be volition person a afloat refund.

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Browning added Annapolis Pride, which brings visibility and consciousness to the LGBTQ+ community, volition look to clasp tiny in-person events, vaccine clinics and virtual events successful the fall.

CBS Baltimore Staff