San Leandro is hosting its first Pride celebration and organizers spoke to KPIX about the decision to launch the celebration now.
SAN LEANDRO -- The city of San Leandro hosted its first Pride celebration Friday.Victor Aguilar Jr. is the first openly gay member of the San Leandro city council. He says he felt the city needed an opportunity to celebrate the LGBT members of his community.'This is long overdue and I am so happy and so proud,' Aguliar said. 'I had this dream to create our first Pride in San Leandro .
We want to support our neighbors and ourselves in the queer community and we should be doing this every year,' Mack-Rose said. 'It's a little embarrassing we haven't done it before.'She says the city has hosted Pride ceremonies before but never a celebration.City leaders decided to wait until July so they wouldn't have to compete with San Francisco Pride in June.
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