Mike Pence’s Hometown is Throwing a Big Gay Pride Festival

Glitter, drag queens and death drops: these are a few of Vice President Mike Pence’s favorite things, and they’ll be out in full-force at his hometown’s inaugural Gay Pride festival in April.

Pence’s birthplace — the small, southern town of Columbus, Indiana — will kickoff its first official party commemorating the LGBT community on April 14, according to a Facebook post promoting the event. The celebration was organized by local high schooler Erin Bailey, who told CNN that although the vice president is “openly anti-LGBT, it doesn’t mean that the rest of us in his hometown are.”

“I decided to host Columbus Pride Festival because I realized we didn’t have anything quite like it in Columbus,” Bailey said Wednesday.

The LGBT community knows how to expertly troll the vice president, sending a clear reminder each time that Pence’s reported support for gay conversion therapy and other anti-gay stances will not be forgotten. Hundreds showed up in front of his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland just before Inauguration Day, throwing a pro-LGBT rights event. He’s not the only member of President Donald Trump’s administration to face the wrath of the queer community right underneath his nose, however.

A “Queer Dance Party for Climate Justice” was thrown right outside of Senior Advisers’ Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s D.C. home in April, complete with voguing, rainbow flags, fur coats and drama.

As for the vice president, a spokesperson told CNN Pence is supportive of the event. “Vice President Pence commends Erin Bailey for her activism and engagement in the civic process,” press secretary Alyssa Farah said. “As a proud Hoosier and Columbus native, he’s heartened to see young people from his hometown getting involved in the political process.”

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