Wake Forest Mayor Walks Back Pride Month Proclamation

Wake Forest residents have recently started celebrating Pride Month in their town in October, and at a town board of commissioners work session earlier this month, mayor Vivian Jones looked poised to support their efforts.

“We’re going to have a proclamation proclaiming October as Pride Month in Wake Forest,” Jones said toward the end of the 45-minute-long meeting on September 2 during the commissioners reports portion of the session.

“The proclamation that you just mentioned is not one that I would be supportive of,” said commissioner Faith Cross when it was her turn to speak. No one else addressed the proclamation and the meeting went into closed session…

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