Originally posted on therepublic.com on April 13, 2019
Columbus Pride Festival organizers promised a larger gathering in Saturday’s second installment, and they delivered.
An estimated crowd of more than 3,500 people gathered along a crowded Fifth Street and the Bartholomew County Public Library Plaza downtown Saturday afternoon in support of the LGBTQ community and their family and friends.
And that was an hour before the drag show, last year’s most popular attraction, began.
Erin Bailey, now a student at Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis, launched the first Pride festival last April as her senior project at Columbus Signature Academy — New Tech High School. Regional, national and international media picked up the story of the event they saw as especially significant because the event was occurring in Vice President Mike Pence’s hometown. See the Full Feature >