Image Credit: Olivia Hill / Facebook
Tennessee Conservative News [By Paula Gomes] –
A Metro Nashville Council member dressed in drag to perform at a fundraiser for Nashville Pride earlier this month.
Nashville Pride Board Member Brandon Norfleet, joined other city leaders, including openly trans Metro Nashville council member Olivia Hill, to participate in a community drag show to raise money for Nashville’s Pride festival as corporate sponsors continue to lay low for the second year in a row.
“Turn About” was hosted by Nashville school teacher Benjamin Slinkard, aka Kennedy Ann Scott at Play Dance Bar. Slinkard, a longtime employee of Metro Nashville Public Schools who hosted the main stage during last year’s festival, is to be presented this year with a “Trailblazer Award.”
Norfleet chose the name “Baby Aspartame” for his drag persona because of his obsession with Diet Coke.
While new to drag, Norfleet has attended Nashville Pride for over ten years.
Last year, Nashville Pride lost nearly half of their corporate sponsorship, the worst financial crisis the organization had seen in thirty-five years, which led to a hurried campaign to raise money over the course of seven weeks to “Keep Pride alive.”
Along with Vanderbilt University Medical Center who pulled out just weeks before the festival’s scheduled date, other big names that decided not to renew sponsorship included Nissan, Dollar General, and Cracker Barrel. Others, like Jack Daniel’s, gave less than in previous years.
Following a presidential executive order at the beginning of 2025, ending government support for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, organizations in Tennessee scrubbed DEI language from their websites and budgets for DEI followed suit.
At the state level, the Tennessee General Assembly also passed legislation aimed at stopping DEI programs in hiring practices and also cracking down on DEI departments in governmental and public institutions.
This year, organizers for the Pride festival were short in the budget to the tune of a quarter-million dollars which meant turning to the community to raise funds to cover the shortfall once again.
After fundraising, the group was still lacking around $100,000 and had to scale back plans to just one day instead of its original plans for the weekend.
While the festivities will not be as extensive as in years past, organizers still have events planned for children on June 27th.
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
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shameful–
$$$$$$
people will do anything for it
Yup, lucifer’s own demon possessed pukes.
Why is this being allowed in the capital of TN? Jesus is given one day a at a time; our presidents and heroes are given one day: homosexuality and mental illness, pedophilia is given a MONTH with the blessing of state and local “elected” officials!?
Nashville Pride Board Member Norfleet goes by the psychotic name “Baby Aspartame” is a pedophile” (why does Nashville have a taxpayer funded “Pride Board”? Slinkard also a pedophile should not be allowed near a child let alone being paid by tax dollars; and the man using the name “Olivia Hill” is a disgrace to the state of Tennessee. Nashville is under the influence of darkness to allow, support, promote these mentally ill individuals and thinking it is okay to parade their pedophilic mental illness to children and the community.
Any man dressing up in sleazy costumes, attempting to impersonate a woman, and parading around engaging in lewd behavior as entertainment aimed at children is demonic. Insults of being called “homophobic” was invented by the queer community to attempt to label and divide sane people who know there are only two sexes and lewd behavior aimed at children should land them a millstone tied to their neck and being thrown into the ocean (Matthew 18:5-6).
Nashville and each TN community that continues toi push this heresy and satanic behavior will receive the judgment of God, the Lord of Heavens Armies. To think otherwise is to deceive yourself – but that is what satan wans as he is the great deceiver, liar, loser.
AMEN!!
Where are the Christians and sane people of Nashville in all this? Nashville has become a cesspool of sleaze and satanism (and the satanic Parthenon is another story).
The people of TN must rise up and stop this. The gods (little “g”) of this world are being given a foothold in TN through laziness and stupidity. Then there is the allowing of mosques and islam propoganda being supported in this state! That is satanic and they intend to kill all non-believers in their false prophet and they intend to take over the US state by state. WAKE UP.
Amen.
I have to admit, I did giggle a little.
They wrote another article about me, misgendered me, called me names, dragged Pride into it, and then used good pictures. So honestly, thank you for the free publicity.
What they do not seem to understand is that every article they write and every ugly comment they leave only reminds people why Pride matters in the first place. You are not scaring us. You are not pushing us back into the shadows. You are not making me hide.
You are increasing my name ID, reminding my supporters why elections matter, and showing decent people exactly what kind of cruelty we are still fighting.
So please, by all means, keep talking.
I will keep showing up.
I will keep serving.
I will keep standing proud.
And I will keep doing it in heels if I feel like it.
Happy Pride, y’all. ️️⚧️