Sebring’s LGBTQ community Walks the Circle with Pride in 2019 during the first Sebring Pride event. (Photo courtesy Rev. George Miller)
SEBRING, Fla. | After putting the event on hold in 2020 due to the pandemic, Sebring’s LGBTQ community returns this weekend with its second annual “Sebring Pride 2021.” The event, which will take place at Mon Cirque Wine Bar June 27 from 3-7 p.m., will feature live music, speakers, photoshoots and more.
Rev. George Miller, an openly gay UCC pastor serving Emmanuel United Church Of Christ in Sebring, moved to the mostly conservative area in 2010 and is excited to see what this event will mean to the community after the success of their first Sebring Pride in 2019.
“One of the things people can expect is unapologetic pride,” Miller says. “I sense that we have hit a new generation of people in a new era where the LGBTQ+ community is not living in fear and not living in silence.”
Sebring Pride 2021 will start with a photoshoot at the Lake Jackson Fishing Pier at 3 p.m. with entertainment beginning at 4 p.m. at Mon Cirque. Live performances will include singer Jamie Tremps, fire spinning, and burlesque performed by Misty Rose and Gadiel.
Miller will speak to the crowd before everyone lines up behind Mon Cirque at 5:15 p.m. for “Walk the Circle with Pride,” a Pride walk around Circle Drive in Sebring’s Historic Downtown District. Performances will resume at Mon Cirque starting at 6 p.m.
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