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Funds will also support the WWCC’s capital campaign. The resources raised through the partnership will support the organization’s programs for seniors, as well as its Trans Resource Center. Sofitel Philadelphia will also donate $1 from every Liberté cocktail sold in the Liberté Lounge to WWCC during Pride Month. Designated items range from breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets to beverages and snack breaks for groups of 10 or more people hosting a meeting or event at Sofitel Philadelphia. According to a release, during the entire month of June, and through the rest of 2021, Sofitel Philadelphia will donate $1 per each banquet menu item designated with the William Way Community Center’s logo on the menu. The hotel also recently announced a year-long benefit for a local LGBTQ charity. The Philadelphia rainbow flag will be joined by a variety of LGBTQ flags flying high inside the lobby to celebrate the different facets of the local gay community, including the Lesbian Pride Flag, Gender Fluid Pride Flag, Binary Pride Flag, Pan Sexual Pride Flag, Transgender Pride Flag and the Bisexual Pride Flag. The flag can be seen as soon as you walk in the front door of the establishment, but the celebration continues inside with the lobby, which has been renamed Philadelphia’s LGBTQ Hall of Flags. Sofitel Philadelphia is known for showing off its own Pride through an oversized rainbow flag, with Philly’s addition of the brown and black stripes to honor diversity in the community. LGBTQ Hall of Flags and Philly Gay Pride Flag Exhibit In three weeks, 300+ calls and emails later, and a lot of coffee, we have mobilized not just a transitional list for this year, but one of the best lists Philly Gay Pride Month has ever seen.” “For the volunteers and leaders that stepped up to organize the 280+ events and master list, it wasn’t a question of ‘Do we do this?’ but more an issue of ‘How do we organize everyone, get out the word, and never let this happen again?’ Philly has an amazing Pride Parade which is one of my favorite events of the year, but it also has a diverse robust community with dozens and dozens of organizations doing things all month-long. Gay-owned businesses were forced to shutter their doors for months at a time and endure necessary but harmful restrictions.
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Gay nonprofits saw an increase for services, while donations decreased, while they were forced to pivot and sort out how to keep functioning and how to navigate staff shortages. Gay seniors faced mental and physical challenges, including added isolation. International students, residents and workers who sought the safety net of a larger inclusive city were forced to go back to their countries and basically head back into the closet. College students who started their coming out process in our city’s colleges were sent back in the closet as they got kicked out of their dorms and many were forced to move back home. Gay teens who started to find comfort in local services and youth centers were cut off from the services they started to rely on. “The pandemic took such a toll on our city and region’s gay and queer community.
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“Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community couldn’t afford to lose our Gay Pride two years in a row to the pandemic,” said community organizer and out/proud gay business owner Kory Aversa, who helped mobilize the master list and new Pride month website.
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This month in the city is chock full of opportunities to celebrate Pride, but there are a few options that take up the entirety of the month so that everyone can join in on the fun.