Livermore Pride is sharing our serious concern regarding an incident that occurred last Sunday, June 7th, at the Livermore Farmers Market, the management of which California Farmers Market Association (CFMA) recently assumed.

Livermore Pride Executive Director Amy Pannu was handing out Pride flags with local business owner, Dan Floyd, owner of Dan Good Cookies (something that has occurred at past markets in 2019 without issue). During the course of the day’s market, both Dan and Amy were approached abruptly and verbally accosted by Gail Hayden, Director of CFMA, as she demanded that distribution of the flags was not allowed and a violation of the vendor agreement. Video of the latter part of this conversation is included and demonstrates both Ms. Hayden’s hostile demeanor as well as the public manner in which she berated Dan, a Market vendor, without justification.

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