The Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force will present a program examining the challenges LGBTQ people face navigating major life events this evening at Riverhead Free Library.
The program, titled “Pride and Prom,” is an “open conversation about the challenges for the LGBTQ community maneuvering prom and other major life events,” according to ABTF co-chair Cindy Clifford. The program will start at 6 p.m. and is free and open to all.
The event was inspired by the musical-comedy “The Prom”, which was performed earlier this year by the Riverhead Blue Masques, and follows a young lesbian whose school canceled its prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend. The musical was inspired by the events of the 2010 Itawamba County School District prom controversy in Mississippi.
It is also in honor of LGBT Pride Month, which is held in June to celebrate and commemorate the impact of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in history, and to honor the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Manhattan, which is seen as a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States.
Riverhead Blue Masques performers will join the program to perform musical numbers from the show, according to Clifford.
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