Oklahoma School District To March In Pride Parade

Oklahoma City’s CBS affiliate reports:

A school district at the center of one of America’s most conservative states plans to join a gay pride celebration this weekend. According to OKCPride.org, the annual festival represents the unity between the LGBTQ community and its supporters. For the first time, Oklahoma City Public Schools will be involved in the festival.

OKCPS plans to have a yellow school bus and staff, faculty and possibly students walking beside the bus. The district’s superintendent said the cost of using the bus, roughly $190, is being covered by private donors so taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill.

According to the LGBTQ rights group Freedom Oklahoma, OKCPS is one of only five districts to participate in a Pride celebration anywhere in the nation. “To put an OKCPS bus in the parade seems like a great way to say we not only protect you, we support you,” OKCPS Board Chari Paula Lewis said on Wednesday while next to OKCPS Superintendent Aurora Lora.

Stand by for the screaming. (Tipped by JMG reader Zac)