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.
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