FCPS Pride holds school board rally
Fairfax County Public Schools Pride, a pro-LGBTQ activist organization, held a rally outside of the Fairfax County School Board meeting at Luther Jackson Middle School on June 15.
The rally was held to call attention to the mounting racist and anti-LGBTQ incidents reported in Northern Virginia schools this year.
Approximately 50 community activists participated in the peaceful FCPS Pride rally. Speakers at the event included state Del.
Marcus Simon (D-Falls Church); Robert Rigby, FCPS Pride president; David Broder, president of the Service Employees International Union Virginia Local 512; and David Walrod, educator and president of the Fairfax County Association of Teachers. “We’ve got a Pride flag burning at one school, anti-Semitic symbols at another school,” Rigby warned the crowd. “Homophobic and anti-trans remarks written on another school.
