Cleveland Pride

Charter One and Cleveland Pride will be working together as partners for this year’s Cleveland Pride celebration in Voinovich Park on June 20. Charter One is a returning sponsor of Cleveland Pride’s parade and festival, the city’s largest annual event.

By partnering, Charter One and Cleveland Pride will promote a worthy cause—to bring awareness and acceptance of the LGBT community to the Northeast Ohio region, as well as putting Cleveland Pride’s “Equality through Unity” theme into practice.

“Cleveland Pride is honored to have Charter One as a returning sponsor for Cleveland Pride’s 2009 festival and parade,” observed Todd Saporito, 2009 Cleveland Pride Board President/CEO.

“This critical partnership shows the Northeast Ohio region that partnerships can transcend the bigotry and discrimination often levied against the LGBT community,” added Saporito. “We couldn’t be happier to be partnering with Charter One again,” he concluded.

“Charter One is committed to making a difference in the community,” said Carrie Carpenter, vice president and director of public affairs at Charter One.

“We are honored to partner with Cleveland Pride to promote a strong and diverse city,” she added.

About Charter One
Charter One is a division of RBS Citizens, N.A., operating in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. It has approximately 360 branches and 615 ATMs. It has 148 branches and 169 ATMs in Ohio. Charter One’s Web site is charterone.com.

RBS Citizens, N.A. is a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $167 billion commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, R.I. CFG’s two bank subsidiaries are RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. They operate a 12-state branch network under the Citizens Bank brand in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the Charter One brand in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. CFG has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states. It is one of the 10 largest commercial banking companies in the United States ranked by assets. CFG is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc). CFG’s Web site is citizensbank.com.

About Cleveland Pride
Founded in 1989, Cleveland Pride has been an integral part of the Northeastern Ohio region for the past 21 years. Cleveland’s Pride celebration is among the first half-dozen such events launched in the U.S., making our Parade and Festival among the longest continuing Pride events in the country.

On an ongoing basis, Cleveland Pride brings awareness, education and knowledge of the queer community to the general public to discourage/eliminate prejudice and discrimination on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Cleveland Pride openly recognizes and embraces all individuals of the queer community who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer questioning, intersex and straight allies, while understanding that each group identified exists in all ages, races, national origins and physical abilities.

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