Little Apple Pride held a picnic Saturday in Manhattan’s Blue Earth Plaza.
The picnic is a change from the normal, larger pride festivities that would traditionally take place in April. Both the 2020 and 2021 April festivities had to be cancelled due to COVID-19.
Kevin Stilley, Treasurer of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project and Little Apple Pride, spoke about putting on the picnic
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Little Apple Pride Chair Jonathan Mertz spoke about the event and how it’s more well received locally now than in previous years.
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Mertz spoke about how plans came to fruition after COVID scrapped plans for their festivities the past two years.
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In addition to the picnic, the event had arts and crafts as well as multiple drag performances.
