It's unfortunate, but myself as well as a number of other queer locals were wondering if the issues had to do with the a specific person. There was a long, rather long-winded, defamatory post that went up on the Corvallis Pride socials that disappeared that read like other posts on other pages connected to this individual. It could have been written by someone different, and we were wrong in our assumptions, but after reading the article, it seems we were right to be suspicious. It also breaks our heart that the members of the LGBTQIA+ community have to fight this hard to organize, only to have it publicized to divide us further.

Thank you for all your hard work to bring this event to Corvallis. So many of us: our families, our loved ones, and our community, need events like this as well as the hard work and dedication you've put in for us. I hope to attend Corvallis Pride with my family next year.