We Made The News!
In times of social and political adversity, visibility matters, Trennie Burch, co-founder and executive director of Ignacio Out and Equal Alliance, said. That’s something leaders of the alliance have been learning their whole lives.
Where other queer communities have fallen upon hard times, such as Durango’s community with the closure of the Starlight Lounge, the alliance in
Ignacio is growing in both a physical and metaphorical sense.
BAYFIELD – The midday sun is unforgiving. Balloons beside the main stage sag in the heat and people cluster in patches of shade.
But the excitement surrounding the inaugural Bayfield and Ignacio joint Pride Celebration beats the heat. People hoot and holler when drag queens and kings strut through the crowd and younger kids run around with wrists stacked full of multicolored bracelets.
