UPDATE! St. Pete mayor Bill Foster doesn’t sign St. Pete Pride Proclamation, even though all 8 city council members sign for the first time.
Foster spoke with Pride organizers after the meeting and said he didn’t sign because the festival is still too “adult-themed.”
Will he or won’t he?
The St. Petersburg City Council is now in session, and LGBT supporters are wondering whether St. Pete mayor Bill Foster will sign a traditional proclamation in support of St. Pete Pride.
Foster has never signed the proclamation, but every other city council member plans to pen their signatures and Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn has just signed his first-ever proclamation in support of Pride month. Some are wondering whether the peer pressure will lead Foster to sign on the dotted line, as well.
Former St. Pete mayor Rick Baker, Foster’s predecessor, was mayor when St. Pete Pride began and also never signed a pride proclamation. That means Mayor Foster would be the first St. Pete mayor ever to sign a proclamation in support of St. Pete Pride.
