COMMUNITY PRIDE I SUPPORT YOU!

I find it amazing how people forget so quickly, or try to change history by cancelling the culture of others work-I’m speaking about people who work or volunteer at STONEWALL who try passing off there latest investment in POC/LGBTQi Pride events without giving any recognition to the community pass and present who organized in 2004 & 2005 the first people of color Pride. Ms Meka Shabazz is the founder a transgender sister, who came up with the POC Pride, I was recruited by Richard Sankey of the House of Xclusive Lavin to become the President  eventually the Executive Director. Columbus Dispatch, City Hall, the Governors Office and all the local gay magazines promoted or interviewed us. Are we forgotten?is history being rewritten by our own people- and doing what America is good at, excluding us? NOT IF I CAN HELP IT. I have maintained all the paper work, minutes, articles of incorporation with the states office, and a police report; when a bank account was opened in our name without permission by a current staff member working or volunteering at Stonewall Columbus who stole funds that Stonewall donated to us, from the night of a Saturday Night dance at The King Arts Center (Stonewall Columbus gave us a donation of $250 and they set up a a table at the dance) it was appreciated. After our first Pride, Kate Anderson the Executive Director at Stonewall offered myself and Richard positions at Stonewall if we brought our Pride organization in house, we politely declined. Our work was not done in vain and we will not be overlooked- Author & Min.Mychaeltodd