Morehead, Kentucky, was just a blip on the map before Kim Davis made national headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But now, it’s getting attention for a different reason.
Last weekend, Davis’s hometown held its first ever Pride festival. And while the infamous clerk didn’t attend, a drag impersonator was there to fill in for her.
“I think it was probably the first time people had seen a drag show in their life,” Morehead Pride’s director David Moore told Vice.
He and his partner were one of the first couples to apply for a marriage license after the state’s governor ordered clerks to issue them in accordance with the Supreme Court’s ruling. Video of the couple being denied went viral.
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Moore did eventually marry his husband last October and has been planning Morehead Pride ever since.
