BY: Liliana Rocio, Senior Editor for World Liberty TV
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS TO CELEBRATE 30TH ANNUAL QUEENS PRIDE PARADE
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER TO SERVE AS GRAND MARSHAL OF QUEENS PRIDE PARADE AND FESTIVAL ON JUNE 5
On Sunday, June 5, 2022, from 12n-6pm, tens of thousands of New Yorkers flocked to Jackson Heights to celebrate the 30th Annual Queens Pride Parade and festival, one of the City’s largest celebrations of LGBT rights and advocacy, LGBT Network President and CEO David Kilmnick announced.
Danny Dromm Founder Queens Parade with Kenneth Adams La Guardia College President & a guest
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will headline the event as Grand Marshal, along with nonprofit advocacy organizations Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo, and the Caribbean Equality Project who have also been named Grand Marshals.
The parade will remember Julio Rivera, a gay Queens resident who was brutally murdered in 1990, which sparked the LGBT movement in Queens. Rivera was the first crime against a member of the LGBT community tried as a hate crime in New York State.
Dr Abbey with LGBT Network President and CEO David Kilmnick
Attending with Speaker Adams will be founders and many organizers and marchers from the first Queens Pride Parade 30 years ago, including Parade Founder, and Former-New York City Council Finance Chair, Daniel Dromm.
Dr Abbey with adrienne adams nyc council speaker & Parade Grand Marshall
Dromm will join LGBT Network President and CEO David Kilmnick and the Grand Marshals for the ceremonial step-off of the parade at 12noon, to signify three decades of advocacy and progress in Queens.
Dr. David Kilmnick, President and CEO of the LGBT Network said: “I am thrilled to announce our Grand Marshals for the 30th Anniversary of Queens Pride.
Dr Abbey with Brad Landers NYC Comptroller
Speaker Adrienne Adams has been a longtime champion for the rights of the LGBT community and her advocacy has been unmatched.
We are proud to commemorate three decades of activism in the borough, which emerged out of a tragedy, and has now become a symbol for pride in the City, State, and nation.”
Dr Abbey with Caribbean Beauty Queen
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said: ““I am deeply honored to serve as a Grand Marshal for the 30th anniversary celebration of Queens Pride.
Dr Abbey with Trans Queen
Our beautiful and diverse LGBTQ community deserves to be supported, uplifted, and celebrated. For the last three decades, the Queens Pride Parade has provided a safe space for authentic expression of pride, visibility, acceptance, and empowerment. I congratulate my fellow Grand Marshals, Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo and the Caribbean Equality Project, and the LGBT Network and I look forward to celebrating Queens Pride with all New Yorkers on June 5th!”
Dr Abbey with Hernan & Christopher of the Queens Center for Gay Seniors
Parade founder and former-New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm said: “Adrienne Adams commitment to the LGBTQIA communities is vitally strong.
She along with Colectivo TRANSgrediendo and Caribbean Equality Project represent the diversity of the LGBTQIA movement. Their work to make the world more accepting is truly commendable.
Dr Abbey with Edward Caban 1st Deputy NYPD Commissioner
It’s a good reminder that LGBTQIA people are everywhere. We are your family, friends and neighbors. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone on June 5, 2022 on 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights when Queens Pride returns.”
Dr Abbey with Council Member Tiffany Caban
About LGBTQ Network: The LGBT Network is announcing an exciting chance for your organization to become an Official Partner of the LGBT Network during Pride Month! This Partnership offers your organization the opportunity to use the LGBT Network’s name and logo to promote your event as an Official and Certified Pride event!
Dr Abbey with LGBTQ Members
As part of this partnership, the LGBT Network will promote your community Pride event and details in our Pride Month calendars across our websites and in other marketing materials reaching tens of thousands of people across Long Island!
In addition, your organization will receive an official Pride/LGBT Network certified event logo to include in your own promotional materials that will help make an important connection to the LGBTQ and allied community.
Gotham Cheer Dancers
The LGBT Network’s name and work are well-known and trusted and an important part of life for LGBTQ people and their families on Long Island.
Dr Abbey with Brian E. Downey President Gay Officers Action League
Since 1993, The LGBT Network has been a trusted home and voice for LGBT people, their families, and support systems on Long Island and in Queens.
Dr Abbey with Diana Reyna Lt Gov of NYS Candidate
Serving hundreds of thousands of people each year, the LGBT Network is a home, a voice and safe space for the community where our fierce work and visibility creates safer spaces where LGBT people live, learn, work, play and pray!
Dr Abbey with NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
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