Eagle County Board of Commissioners resolution to recognize Pride Month welcomed by residents

When Shiloh Liska moved to Eagle County they weren’t sure how they’d be received in the community. That uncertainty is long gone.

Liska, now the lead officer for the county’s animal control department, was one of the people celebrating when the Eagle County Board of Commissioners recently passed a resolution celebrating Pride Month in the county.

The resolution was passed on June 17, just a few days after the June 14 Pride in the Park celebration, held in Avon’s Nottingham Park. Liska coordinated Eagle County’s booth at the celebration, and told the commissioners the volunteers who came had a fine time at the event.

Beyond the event, Liska noted that Eagle County’s Human Resources department provides the organization’s LGBTQ employees with a “safe, welcoming, inclusive space.”

Pride in the Park is one of the signature events of local nonprofit Mountain Pride, but is one of many events the organization sponsors. This is the fourth year the county has passed its resolution recognizing Pride Month, and this year’s resolution is identical to the one passed in 2024.

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Other local governments passing resolutions this year included the town of Vail, Summit County and Lake County.

Mountain Pride suggested somewhat different language this year, but it hadn’t yet passed muster with the county’s legal staff, something Commissioner Matt Scherr said speaks more to the “speed and process of government” than any real problems with the suggested language.

Even using the 2024 language, Mountain Pride Executive Director Maddy Partridge said the resolution is still important.

“We want people to see this is a safe community,” Partridge said.

And, with many communities and states around the country passing laws seen as hostile to the LGBTQ community, “We have to keep fighting… So many (people) are grateful y’all are doing this,” she said.