The local ABC television station covered the first LGBT Pride event in the Nebraska Panhandle, held yesterday in Gering (just south of Scottsbluff).
http://www.kotatv.com/... (fifty-four seconds, plus a text article).
The Scottsbluff Star-Herald also has a very long article about the event in today's paper here.
More below the orange bar-b-que smoke, as the event was a picnic in the park.
The Scott's Bluff County Democratic Party and numerous local businesses supported the event supporting Panhandle Pride, an organisation now being set up as a not-for-profit.
The event was a wild success. In speaking with several people, they told me they only expected twenty or thirty people.
By my own and several other people's counts, the number was more like two to three hundred.
Many people brought covered dishes for the event; Godfather's Pizza provided enough pizza for everyone. Also present was the local disability rights organisation, and an organisation concerned with domestic violence (since its mission ofttimes intersects vulnerable LGBT youth).
Numerous area churches also were present in support of the event.
A record company from Omaha provided a number of CDs for door prizes, and Applebee's in Scottsbluff provided a number of gift certificates for prizes (I won one).
I noted two local government officials there (me as a village trustee from sixty miles away, and the director of the Panhandle Library System).
The organisers of the event were looking for both people to serve on Panhandle Pride's steering committee, and as volunteers (I signed up for the latter).
The event went off without a visible hitch. That will go a long way to building goodwill for Panhandle Pride in the community in the future.
There were people at the event from as far away as Ogallala and Denver.