{"id":55905,"date":"2019-08-08T00:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=55905"},"modified":"2019-08-08T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:02:23","slug":"utoledo-to-participate-in-toledo-pride-parade-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_08_2019\/utoledo-to-participate-in-toledo-pride-parade-festival","title":{"rendered":"UToledo to Participate in Toledo Pride Parade, Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to join The University of Toledo to march in the Toledo Pride Parade Saturday, Aug. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University of Toledo has maintained a presence at pride parades and festivals in past years with our LGBTQA+ initiatives and our student organization Prism, formally known as Spectrum,\u201d said Dr. Michele Soliz, UToledo assistant vice president for student success and inclusion. \u201cWe invite everyone in the UToledo community to join us to celebrate our inclusive campus and city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_56018\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=56018\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56018\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toledo-Pride-in-front-of-house-Columbus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toledo-Pride-in-front-of-house-Columbus.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toledo-Pride-in-front-of-house-Columbus-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of UToledo students, employees and alumni participated in the 2018 Columbus Pride Festival. Rocky and Rocksy also were in the state capital for the parade.<\/p><\/div>UToledo community members are asked to meet at 11 a.m. to check in for the parade at the corner of Adams and Warren streets. Look for the rainbow UToledo shirts to find the University\u2019s spot in the parade.<\/p>\n<p>The parade will start at noon on Adams Street and head toward Promenade Park, where the Pride Festival will take place until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Office for Diversity and Inclusion will sponsor several tables at the festival, which will feature food, vendors and family activities,\u201d Soliz said. \u201cHelp us show our Rocket pride and Toledo Pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to receive a free UToledo Pride T-shirt while supplies last: Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/webforms.utoledo.edu\/form\/91260524453\">The University Toledo Pride Parade website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the University at the Toledo Pride Parade Saturday, Aug. 17. Sign up and receive a free T-shirt while supplies last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56021,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55905\/revisions\/56021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}