KENTUCKY — On this week’s program, we’re discussing Pride Month here in the Commonwealth, which is an annual celebration in June that honors the LGBTQIA plus community, their history and their ongoing fight for equality.
Nov. 2024Lexington-Fayette Urban County council member Emma Curtis joins this “In Focus Kentucky” segment. With her election to Lexington’s 4th council district in November 2024, Curtis became the first transgender person to be elected to a city council seat in Kentucky. And her win also made her the second transgender person to hold public office in the Commonwealth.
“When I think about pride month, I think about the way things were here in Kentucky when I was growing up, which was that I was taught a narrative that in order to be queer or trans or a member of the LGBTQ community, you had to be in New York or Los Angeles or in Europe or just somewhere else in general, that being LGBTQ was something that people elsewhere did, not something that people here in Kentucky just are. And I think we’ve come a long way from that. I think now we are seeing LGBTQ folks as we are, which is just as neighbors, as friends and family members, as part of the greater fabric that makes this Commonwealth so great. And so when I think of pride month now in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, I think about celebrating where we’ve been, where we are, and looking ahead to where we’re going,” she said…