March for Equality planned in Jacksonville for Thursday

The Human Rights Ordinance expansion may be going away from Jacksonville in the short term, but LGBT equality advocates are not, as a march is planned Thursday at high noon.

The march, just hours before Tommy Hazouri is expected to withdraw his legislation at the Thursday afternoon Committee of the Whole (in light of a seeming erosion of Council will to pass a bill, campaign promises of many legislators notwithstanding), is in support of a fully-inclusive Human Rights Ordinance.

“We will gather in Hemming Park and move south on the sidewalk down Laura Street towards the Main Street bridge. We will walk on the sidewalk of the Main Street bridge to Friendship Fountain, and regroup. There we will have speakers (TBA) comment on the urgent need for a city-wide non-discrimination policy that protects all members of the LGBTQI+ community,” writes event organizer “Kelly Florida.”

No word on a counter-march planned by HRO opponents… yet.