Our Grand Marshal Mike Hot-Pence & our Queen Lady Victoria Courtez represented perfectly & we couldn’t have asked for better syncopation for our mobilization than the delightful Philadelphia Freedom Band!īut by far the most love & respect goes out to the thousands-strong community members who came out locally, from across all corners of our great state, & indeed beyond our borders as well (Brooklyn in the house!). Cohen, to our Mayor Liz Lempert, to Assemblyperson Andrew Zwicker, to Maplewood Councilperson Dean Dafis, to our Governor & First Lady Phil & Tammy Murphy for putting boots on the ground & sharing inspirational remarks before & after the Parade.įurther kudos to our community members who shared the stage with our elected officials~ 11 year old activist Mani Martinez, who brought us all to tears & then left us chanting her name Frank Mahood, who dropped some important local history as he told of his personal journey & how it was helped along by the formation of Princeton’s first gay rights organization, Gay People Princeton & Hendricks Davis, who sang us all to the stage & opened us up to the beautiful sentiments that were to follow.
Thank you to our Town Council members Leticia Fraga, Eve Niedergang, Tim Quinn, Dwaine Williamson, & David E. Thousands of us marched, sashayed & rolled up the beautiful Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood & then were all at once empowered & entertained at the wonderful after-party at the Y (Thank you to the Princeton Family YMCA for allowing the community to use your green space). This is the letter of gratitude we sent to the community in June of 2019~
Was truly the historic moment we all hoped it would be~