City council in Florida votes against recognizing Pride Month

Published June 3, 2021 4:06pm ET



The month of June will have no special meaning in Okeechobee, Florida, after the city council voted against recognizing Pride Month.

“Our community is a very conservative, very Christian community,” Okeechobee Mayor Dowling Watford said after the city declined to designate June as Pride Month. “There is a portion of the population who feel slighted by this, but we don’t mean that in any way.”

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