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How Attorneys Are Celebrating Pride Month In 2024
Read Time: 2 minsAssociate and Chair of McGlinchey PRIDE Andrew Albritton was quoted in a Law360 Pulse story about how attorneys are commemorating Pride month.
Celebrating at His Firm: Albritton, who heads McGlinchey’s LGBTQ+ affinity group, said that this year the group is having its big event in October to coincide with National Coming Out Day. It does have some programming in June, though, including … sponsoring Habitat for Humanity’s annual Pride Build in the Ninth Ward.
“I love the Pride Build every year,” he said. “I think it’s a great way to celebrate Pride and give back to the community. Some Pride events can feel — I don’t want to say performative, but this is a fun way to get our hands dirty and really … put some sweat equity in.”
Personal Celebrations: Outside of work, Albritton has attended a gala fundraiser for Project Lazarus, a New Orleans organization that supports people with HIV/AIDS, and the Pride festival the second weekend in June in the city’s French Quarter. He’s also carrying Pride into July with a trip with some gay friends to New York over Fourth of July weekend.
His Favorite Part of Pride: Albritton said that having grown up in a rural community in the Deep South, he appreciates Pride Month asa time when LGBTQ+ people can celebrate, which is especially important in the South.
“My favorite Pride Month story is from Pride 2017, which was the year I was deciding if I wanted to go to law school,” he said. “I came to New Orleans with the same friends I’m going to New York in July with, my gay besties, and coming to New Orleans that weekend was my first ever Pride where I was out and loud and proud of myself.”
That weekend he not only fell in love with the city, he said, but it was also the weekend he visited Tulane’s campus and decided to go law school.
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