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No Pride This Year? Three Red Hook Teens Decided to Fix That

Episode 60: No Pride This Year? Three Red Hook Teens Decided to Fix That

Three Red Hook High juniors built their own Pride celebration from scratch, drawing hundreds to the village

Show notes

Three Red Hook High School juniors heard there'd be no Pride celebration in their village this year, so they built one themselves. Ada, Harper, and Violet join Emily Sachar to talk about Red Hook Youth Pride, the day they pulled together that drew hundreds of people for a parade, live music, food, and community booths in the Village municipal lot. They get into the parts nobody warns teenagers about, like wrangling event insurance without an organization to back them, partnering with the local community center, and handing off the music to a friend who runs Red Hook DIY. They also talk about what it felt like to watch a plan they'd scribbled on paper turn into a crowd, why Pride still matters in a small town, and what they'd say to any adult who underestimates what high schoolers can get done.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio

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Ada

Ada

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Harper

Harper

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Violet

Violet

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