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Events Set For Gay Pride Week In Springfield Massachusetts

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published June 1, 2013 at 12:30 PM EDT

Gay Pride Week is being observed with a series of events in Springfield Massachusetts. It started on Thursday when more than 100 people gathered in the sweltering midday sun to observe the raising of the rainbow flag outside city hall. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Amaad Rivera, the president and founder of Springfield Pride.

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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