Cortland’s first-ever pride festival. (Photo Source: The Cortland Voice).
Cortland officials will look into the event request process following the first-ever Cortland Community Pride Festival on Saturday.
This comes after some residents protested the all-age drag show at the festival. This followed with individuals, for and against the all-age drag show, engaging in the privilege of the floor portion of Tuesday’s Common Council meeting.
Below is a video of privilege of the floor from Tuesday’s meeting. In order, the following individuals spoke for public comments:
- K. Yang, a protestor and founder of stopfemaleerasure.com (Starts speaking at the beginning of the video)
- Luke Stevenson, the Emergent Party’s mayoral candidate for the city of Cortland (Starts speaking at 14:54)
- Scott Heath, resident of Cortland County (Starts speaking at 18:33)
- Sydney Dawson, protestor at the festival and resident of Cortland County (Starts speaking at 19:20)
- Lawrence Wilde, resident and SUNY Cortland student (Starts speaking at 20:42)
Timothy A. Bennett, owner and publisher of The Cortland Voice, interviewed Cortland mayor Scott Steve and councilperson Wayne Schutt (R-1st Ward).
Scott Steve
Mayor Steve speaks on the event request process and looking into the process in further detail:
Wayne Schutt
Part 1 – Schutt spoke on the all-age drag show
Part 2 – Schutt spoke on behalf of the Cortland Common Council
Part 3 – Schutt provided closing thoughts
