{"id":12289,"date":"2025-06-16T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:22","slug":"casper-shows-its-pride-at-annual-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/casper-shows-its-pride-at-annual-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Shows Its Pride at Annual March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just had to include this for a couple pictures that really boil down how this sexual perversion is really opposed to God, His order, and the Bible. And we&#8217;ve been to Casper a couple times, and it has over 60,000 residents being a similar size to Cheyenne, so this is a very small group and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if people traveled into Casper. And you&#8217;re free to live this lifestyle, but why must you try and force the rest of us to accept you and this deviant lifestyle? We don&#8217;t, and as Romans 1 lays out, this is a judgement by God who turns you over to do what should not be done, exchanging natural relations for the unnatural, receiving in yourselves the due penalty of your error, as well as part of a further morality slide into wickedness, a seared conscience, and eternal destruction. Confirming them in their delusions is what is truly hateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oilcity.news\/community\/2025\/06\/15\/casper-shows-its-pride-at-annual-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/oilcity.news\/community\/2025\/06\/15\/casper-shows-its-pride-at-annual-march\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_6bf7269c-e065-4d29-808c-e8eb62feb51f\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Tommy Culkin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-33.png 780w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-33-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-33-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-33-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CASPER, Wyo. \u2014 Hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Casper on Sunday morning to close out Casper Pride Week 2025 with the annual Pride March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants filled the air with chants for justice, acceptance and pride, waving a variety of Pride flags as they made their way through the downtown district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPride Week was overwhelmingly positive this year,\u201d Casper Pride Executive Director Mallory Pollock said. \u201cWe definitely saw an increase in turnout at a lot of our core events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest event of the week was <a href=\"https:\/\/oilcity.news\/community\/2025\/06\/14\/photos-hundreds-celebrate-pride-at-annual-downtown-festival\/\">Saturday\u2019s Pride Fest<\/a>, and Pollock said the festival drew approximately 1,500 people \u2014 up by several hundred from years past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Pride-filled events throughout the week included an evening performance by musician Inda Eaton at Casper College; a Pride-themed Lego night at local bookstore Bookin\u2019 It; a night of karaoke, trivia, music and more at Frontier Brewing Company; Pride Teen Night at Casper\u2019s Artisan Alley; a pair of drag shows and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-34.png 780w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-34-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-34-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marks Casper Pride\u2019s 10th year, and Pollock said the organization has worked tirelessly over the past decade to become an integral part of the community. That growth ties into the theme of this year\u2019s Pride Week: \u201cbrick by brick.\u201d Pollock said the theme references how Casper Pride has worked to become ingrained in the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve really transformed ourselves to be a year-round resource for the community,\u201d she said. \u201cWe do gatherings and workshops, we\u2019ve got more visibility, we\u2019re doing work to combat discriminatory bills in the legislature, we\u2019re doing work with mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-35.png 780w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-35-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-35-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cbrick by brick\u201d theme also tied into a larger, ongoing effort to chronicle and archive the local community\u2019s LGBTQ+ history with a project organizers have dubbed \u201cSave Casper\u2019s Queer History.\u201d The project will take the form of a digital archive of personal items, letters, photos, flyers and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent months, Casper Pride has hosted archiving days, where people have submitted pieces of memorabilia, personal items, historical documents and more that are related to Pride in the Casper area and LGBTQ+ life more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Sunday morning\u2019s march, Casper City Councilor and LGBTQ Advisory Committee member Amber Pollock praised the initiative and urged local members of the LGBTQ+ community to take part in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project is a labor of love and a love letter to our community,\u201d Amber Pollock said. \u201cIt is about making space for memories that haven\u2019t always been saved \u2014 photographs tucked in drawers, stories that have lived quietly, moments that matter but are at risk of being lost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to include this for a couple pictures that really boil down how this sexual perversion is really opposed to God, His order, and the Bible. And we&#8217;ve been to Casper a couple times, and it has over 60,000 residents being a similar size to Cheyenne, so this is a very small group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoming"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12294,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions\/12294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}