Pride organizers say the local festival is needed
As Angie Gatten stood on stage at the beginning of the Henderson Ky. Pride’s festival in Central Park Saturday, she thought she was going to introduce the winner of the organization’s first legacy award. And that was about all she knew.
But as she stood there, she learned that the legacy award would be called the Janna Gatten Legacy Award, named after her late wife, a Henderson Police Department officer who passed away two years ago after a battle with colon cancer.
And then on the stage with her was daughter, Sarah Hagedorn, who awarded the inaugural award to her mother for the work and advocacy that Angie Gatten does for the LGBTQIA community and the community at large. Gatten is a member of the Henderson Ky. Pride board of directors…