Official wanted demo stage covered up
We will definitely have a representative at next year's fair.
The fair ended up moving its demonstration stage from Cawthra Square Park to the Beer Store parking lot across Church St after the city’s parks and recreation department refused to grant a permit to a stage that wasn’t completely covered by a tent.
“Screw that,” says Cam Lewis, the fair’s executive director. “I don’t believe that something as simple and as much a part of the gay culture should be back in the closet. Instead of the closet, they wanted to put us in a tent. I bet nobody else has to do that for their stage.”
Lewis says parks permit officer Jaime McCaig insisted the stage had to be completely out of view to the public and that someone had to check IDs before anyone could enter. Read the rest of this entry »
