Some community members argued against renewing the festival, saying last year's event was sexually explicit after being advertised as a 'family-friendly' event.
City leaders in Franklin, Tennessee, voted on Tuesday to renew a permit for the city's annual Pride festival scheduled for June despite pushback from some community members.
Franklin Pride has taken place over the last two years in the Nashville suburb, but resistance to the event renewing its permit for the 2023 season arose during a city hall public forum in late last month. According to, a handful of community members had pleaded with the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to block the event's permit, claiming that Pride festivals are intended to"groom" children.
A handful of people in support of Franklin Pride were also in the crowd, including the event's president, Clayton Klutts, who said that many of the festival's detractors"were not in attendance" during last year's event. Klutts added that"they have somehow reimagined it to be a very different event than what was actually held."
"If you violate our trust of this board, I will work as hard, and I'm sure this board will join me in working very hard, to make sure that event never occurs," Moore said.
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