Atlanta Pride and Touching Up Our Roots will honor LGBTQ pioneers in the arts tonight at the 6th Annual Our Founding Valentines event. “City Lights” producer Summer Evans spoke with event coordinator Dave Hayward and Founding Valentine honoree – slam poet, Theresa Davis.
Haywards organization, Touching Up Our Roots, mainly focuses on preserving LGBTQ stories for generations to come.
“We have an interesting situation in our community because we basically lost so much of a generation, my generation, the AIDS generation. There’s a real disconnect in the community, through no one’s fault, it’s just that there’s people that aren’t here anymore to talk about the origins. We try to not speak for anybody, but we try and do the best by getting their stories out,” Hayward said.
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