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Sussex Pride hosts Rehoboth Beach Pride Festival

Annual event celebrates LGBTQ+ community, promotes acceptance and addresses issues
Sussex Pride hosted its annual Rehoboth Beach Pride Festival in the convention center July 19. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
July 25, 2024

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Rehoboth Beach Convention Center
229 Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

Sussex Pride hosted its annual Rehoboth Beach Pride Weekend July 20. The event provides a platform for the local LGBTQ+ community to celebrate identity, promote acceptance and address issues that affect the community.

The festival took place in the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center and featured 50 vendors, live entertainment, workshops and panel discussions, health screenings and free giveaways.

Sussex Pride was created in June 2022 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating, strengthening and supporting the LGBTQ+ community in Sussex County and Delaware.

For more information on Sussex Pride, go to sussexpride.org, email Executive Director David Mariner at david@sussexpride.org or call 302-265-4165.

 

Sussex Pride volunteers Mike Ryan and Leslie Lovegrove greeted festival goers at the door.
There were number of LGBTQ+ organizations on hand, including Delaware Coastal Prime Timers. Steven Swierzy, club president, talks with a couple potential prime timers.
Hannah Simone, Sussex Pride volunteer, mans the raffle ticket table during the event.
There were a lot of rainbow-themed goods for sale, including these rainbow roses by 302 Floral.
There was a lot of art for sale. Some of it, like this enamel-on-glass piece by artist Richard D. Thibodeau, was funny.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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