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ROC Pride Collective on this year's Pride events

Susanna Speed and Sam Brett appear on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Monday, February 7, 2022.
Megan Mack
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WXXI News
Susanna Speed and Sam Brett appear on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Monday, February 7, 2022.

The Rochester PRIDE parade, festival, and picnicare back this year. ROC Pride Collective is a new grassroots group that's organizing members of the LGBTQ community around these events. It comes after controversy related to the Out Alliance and the pandemic stalled those community initiatives over the previous two years. The new group is dedicated to bringing them back and keeping them going strong.

We talk to members of the ROC Pride Collective about their efforts and their goals. Our guests:

Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.
Megan Mack is the executive producer of "Connections with Evan Dawson" and live/televised engagement programming.
Emmarae Stein is the production assistant for "Connections with Evan Dawson."
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