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Kent Pride held its inaugural rally on Sept. 9 - Charles Cortes/Reporter
Charles Cortes/Reporter
Kent Pride held its inaugural rally on Sept. 9

September 14, 2012 · 10:32 AM

Mayor Suzette Cooke introduces her mom, Virginia Allen, left, to Wade “Mama Moan Alot” Schwartz during the inaugural Kent Pride 2012 rally at Burlington Green Park last Sunday.

More than a hundred people came out to support the event and generate momentum for Referendum 74, the same-sex-marriage measure on Washington’s Nov. 6 election ballot. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter

 

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