We must come together and feel, ‘This is who we are, and we are proud of being who we are.'” Glennda Testone, the executive director of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in the West Village, tells AMNY there has been a 30% increase in demand for the company’s services since President Donald Trump was elected.įour grand marshals will be leading the parade: The American Civil Liberties Union, Brooke Guina, a transgender woman and a NYC firefighter, Krishna Stone, who serves as the director of community relations at Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and Gang Le, a top leader for LGBT rights in China. In a recent statement to AMNY, NYC Pride March director Julian Sanjivan said, “There’s a lot of uncertainty that people are feeling. In 2015, approximately 1.6 million people attended the march, according to estimates by the Wall Street Journal.
The event came just a few days after 29-year-old security guard Omar Mateen killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Last year, approximately 2 million people came out for what was NYC’s largest Pride March ever, and about 30,000 marched. May everyone be loved, feel love, give love, accept love, run towards love, show love, shine love, you ARE loved, pass it on ?
