Pagan Pride Festival Pegged to Fall Equinox

September 19, 2009

Author: Jim Warren

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

http://www.kentucky.com/964/story/941829.html

The third annual Lexington-Bluegrass Pagan Pride Day is Saturday — and you don't even have to be a pagan to attend the festivities.

Event spokeswoman Susan Kelch says the festival will offer plenty of attractions for everybody — food, music, kids' games, a petting zoo, diviners giving personal readings, vendors, arts and crafts for show and sale — regardless of religious belief.

There will be some displays of pagan rituals as well at the festival, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington.

It's intended to celebrate the autumnal equinox — when fall officially arrives, on Tuesday — as well as to promote respect for alternative religious beliefs and let the public know more about paganism in Central Kentucky, Kelch said.