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COURIER L 12 IFE, JUNE 14–20, 2019 M BR B G
PRIDE PARADE
pointed to the joys families can fi nd at
Brooklyn Pride.
“Since Max and Miles were literally
born they’ve been going to Pride in Manhattan,
but this is the fi rst time they’ve
been out at night at Brooklyn Pride,” the
comptroller said. “So it’s learning experience,
it’s a teaching moment, but it’s
great to march with your family… It’s
why we raise kids in the city because
they get the education of a lifetime, the
way I did. And they’re going to be better
for it.
Borough President Eric Adams said
the Brooklyn event perfectly captures a
half century of LGBTQ traditions that
have grown up since the Stonewall riots
in 1969.
“It actually says that the spirit of Harvey
Milk, who died in San Francisco,
continues to cascade here in Brooklyn
with a large parade,” Adams said, before
boasting, “It proves that Brooklyn
is ground zero for Gay Pride.”
Carlos Menchaca, the fi rst out gay
member of the City Council elected from
Brooklyn, also hailed the spirit of the
Park Slope celebration.
“Everyone feels welcome,” he declared,
before turning to one of the evening’s
political implications — that he
and his four gay Council colleagues all
face term limits in 2021. Activists several
weeks ago announced an effort,
dubbed LGBTQ in 2021, to ensure that
queer representation on the Council
will not vanish as a result of these term
limits.
Menchaca was joined in the parade
by nearly a dozen of his Council colleagues,
including out gay Speaker
Corey Johnson from Manhattan and
Daniel Dromm from Queens.
Jared Arader, who is president of the
borough’s LGBTQ Lambda Independent
Democrats, echoed Menchaca’s emphasis
on the 2021 elections, saying of his
club’s participation in the parade, “This
is our opportunity to show Brooklyn’s
LGBTQ community that we are engaged
in local politics; we care about local politics.
We care about representation, and
we have to make sure that the rest of the
city know that just because marriage
got done, just because GENDA the Gender
Expression Non-Discrimination
Act got done, we’re not done.”
The club, Arader said, has grown
during the Trump era surge of activism
on the left. As important, he said,
Lambda is growing beyond its historic
roots in affl uent, predominately white
neighborhoods like Park Slope and
Brooklyn Heights and drawing in increased
numbers of transgender members
and people of color.
“We’re marching in Park Slope right
now because that’s been the traditional
heart of Brooklyn’s community but
we’re moving out, moving from Park
Slope to where we belong,” he said.
Other elected offi cials marching
in the Brooklyn parade spoke to more
global political issues, as well. Menchaca
repeated his criticism of Mayor Bill de
Blasio’s recent broadening of the range
of criminal offenses on which he would
work with federal Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents.
Though Menchaca got blowback
from several of his Council colleagues
because the incremental offenses included
some sex crimes, the councilmember
insisted, “It’s about trust,
and the one thing you can’t legislate is
trust and when you send a signal as the
mayor of New York that you’re okay cooperating
with ICE for any reason whatsoever
then it sends a signal that you’re
not important and that’s the wrong message
and that you can’t get back.”
Jumaane Williams, a former Brooklyn
councilmember who earlier this
year won the race to succeed State Attorney
General Letitia James as the
city’s public advocate, said of his new
post, “I think it’s a pretty cool one. I get
to be an activist. I get to be an organizer.
I get to hold government accountable on
behalf of groups as I’ve tried to do for the
past 10 years.”
Asked about his travels in recent
weeks, not only to Albany but to other upstate
cities as well, Williams explained
that he is looking to organize unifi ed
support statewide for a tenant protection
bill that he described as “the best
combination of upstate and downstate
legislation I’ve seen in a long time.”
Speaking about her new post, James
said, “I think given the fi erce urgency
of now, given the politics of our nation,
as we see an increase in hate crimes, as
we see an administration that unfortunately
is targeting marginalized populations,
I am so honored to be the attorney
general of the State of New York to
show the way for the nation in seeking
justice and equality for the nation.”
Turning out for Pride, she said, is a
way to send a message to President Donald
Trump so “that knows there’s more
of us than of them.” Vowing to keep pressure
up on the administration in Washington,
James said, “Nobody is above
the law.”
Adams, the borough president, also
took aim at Trump.
“Without a doubt, the energy and
spirit that is coming out of Washington,
D.C., has really made those who are antiall
groups comfortable in being anti,” he
said. “This is a spirit we have not seen
in a long time. But we’re not going to allow
it to suffocate us, we’re going to continue
to breath and keep our belief in diversity.”
This story fi rst appeared on
gaycitynews.com , one of our sister
publications.
Continued from page 1
OUT IN FRONT: The Dykes on Bikes had their
traditional lead position in the parade.
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