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Kentucky Employee Credit Union is thrilled to sponsor Capital Pride KY

Kentucky Employees Credit Union (KECU) has been around since 1938, and we’re thrilled with the opportunity to come out as Unicorn-level sponsors of the Capital Pride Festival! We’re simply excited to show love to our members and the community and share our love of diversity and inclusivity.

More than a full-service financial institution, we’ve been a community partner dedicated to nurturing art, culture, and community in the areas we serve. While financial wellness for all is our mission, our leaders are passionate about supportive, thriving communities and those communities with rich creative cultural and artistic centers. Over the years, we’ve struck up partnerships with local arts organizations we love, like Josephine Sculpture Park, who host experiential art and music festivals that are free to the community.

This year for the first time ever, we’re partnering with Canoe Kentucky and West Sixth Brewing for two of three KY River Jam concerts at Ward Oates Amphitheater, also free to the community, with a percentage of West Sixth’s proceeds going to local non-profit organizations.

Also in 2018, KECU is sponsoring Downtown Frankfort Incorporated’s latest art-centered-endeavor - Alley Cat Art, a Sunday afternoon pop-up art market designed to draw artist vendors and locals into areas of downtown.

Having had the opportunity to participate in the first ever Capital Pride Festival in 2017, we found our values demonstrated from one end of the old Capitol lawn to the other, and we’re looking forward to celebrating with the LGBTQIA community again this year!

#$lgbt #pride #gaypride #kentucky #business #inclusivity

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What made you what to be a sponsor for pride?

I've always believed in equal rights for everyone. My cousin is a lesbian and when same-sex marriage became legal I think I cried more than she did. I want to raise my daughter in a world full of love & happiness.

How does Capital Pride KY make you feel about Frankfort?

Proud. With us being the capital of Kentucky, we should be an example for all other counties.

What are you most excited for about Pride this year?

This is my first year so I'm just excited to be a part of it and experiencing everything.

What can you tell us about the Empress sublimation process without giving away all your secrets?

I use a special printer & heat press to dye an image or design onto a substrate.

Do you offer custom work? If so what kinds?

Yes. 90% of what I do is custom work. I can add pictures or designs onto almost anything. What else would you like to share about Empress as a business?I am

EmPress. I am the sole owner and operator of the business. I enjoy personalizing items for people and knowing the joy they get when they receive one of my products.

#pride #frankfort #lgbt #lgbtq #love #smallbusiness #gaypride

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WHY DOES APOLLO LAW SPONSOR CAPITAL PRIDE?

Why Sponsor Capital Pride?

Why is it important for companies to publically support the LGBTQ community? Why should companies partake in Pride festivities? I can't speak for other businesses. I can only speak for myself and for Apollo Law, PLLC. For my law firm, Capital Pride is a yearly opportunity to celebrate the best of Frankfort. Specifically, our love and support for our local community.

In August of 2013, Frankfort Kentucky's capital became the fifth city in the state to adopt an ordinance prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation. With the 3-2 passage of the ordinance by its city commission, Frankfort joined Lexington, Louisville, Covington, and Vicco in Perry County as cities with similar ordinances.

Under the ordinance, complaints of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity would go to the mayor or a designated fairness officer, who would work to resolve the dispute.

If that is unsuccessful, the person alleging discrimination could file a formal complaint with the seven-member Frankfort Human Rights Commission, which was created by the ordinance.

Mayor Bill May and commissioners Katie Flynn Hedden and Tommy Haynes voted for the ordinance. Commissioners Robert Roach and Lynn Bowers opposed it.

As a member of the Frankfort Community, but more so as a decent human being, I believe that ALL city commissioners should have supported the fairness ordinance passed in August of 2013. To this end, Apollo Law sponsors Capital Pride for the second year in 2018. Apollo Law, additionally is treasurer and supporter of Eric E. Whisman's campaign for City Commisioner. Apollo Law supports other candidates whom support the fairness ordinance in Frankfort and Capital Pride.

What Pride Means to Me?

My family is diverse. My stepmother is black and I have three elder black step-brothers. I have an older white half-brother, a white younger half-sister, and a twin brother. I was raised during my formative years by a gay man. I am proud of my families diversity. I am the man I am today because of my family.

I have seen predjudice, not directed at myself as a heterosexual white male, but at my family in general. When my family moved to West Union, Ohio I can vividly remember our neighbors breaking the windows in our cars because my family was different. I remember the local police pulling over my brother's car when they were driving but not so much as being stopped when I was driving. And I am certain, because of my priviledge, that I missed so much more that my family had to endure.

I have been fortunate and blessed to have a loving family and wonderful friends. Throughout my undergraduate and graduate education I was fortunate in having friends from all walks of life: gay, straight, or otherwise. Most of these friends still tolerate my nerdy, and at times, socially awkward self to this day.

In law school, I joined and was an active member of Outlaw, the LGBTQ law group at my school. Listening to my friends tell their coming out stories in law school and celebrating afterwards was inspiring and touching. Since law school, other family members and friends have come out to me and those that they cared about. I believe that we are our best selves when we are honest with the people that we care about.

I have attended Lexington Pride with my friends and family for nearly five years now. I am thrilled to be able to take my family to Capital Pride for a second year in Frankfort. My daughter Claire, whom just turned five, really enjoyed herself last year at the Apollo Law booth at Capital Pride. My mother, wife, and friends were all at Capital Pride last year and had an amazing time.

To me, simply put, Pride is celebrating love with my family, friends and community.

What I Am Excited About At This Year's Capital Pride?

Capital Pride is growing and improving every year. I really look forward to Capital Pride being a staple of Frankfort's annual community events. Every local business should sponsor and participate. Frankfort is the Commonwealth's Capitol and our Pride Festival is perhaps that much more meaningful because of our location and rich history.

On October 13, 2018 from 11AM to 5PM the Old State Capital lawn will be filled with entertaining events, amazing local vendors and organizations. Capital Pride is a free family-friendly LGBTQ+ Pride festival that will feature drag shows and other entertainment. There will also be children's entertainment, Pride merchandise, a vendor fair and food trucks. I look forward to seeing you at Capital Pride this year!

#lgbtq #pride #lgbtpride #frankfort #love #fairness #celebrate #kentucky

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