In Yankees’ backyard, pride fl ourishes
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
Billy’s Sports Bar near
Yankee Stadium once again
played host to Bronx Borough
President Ruben Diaz,
Jr.’s annual LGBTQ Pride
Celebration.
The Wednesday, June 5
event honored Fabio Cotza,
the director of the Safe Horizon
Bronx Child Advocacy
Center, which provides support
and services to youth
who have suffered sexual
and physical abuse; Maria
A. Rodriguez, the vice president
of care coordination
services at Argus Community,
Justice Rosalyn H. Richter(c), who accepted a posthumous award on behalf of her late spouse Janet Weinberg,
with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark..
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longtime transgender activist
who is the director of
outreach and engagement
at Destination Tomorrow
— The Bronx LGBT Center;
and Hands in 4 Youth, a Gay-
Straight Alliance at PS/ MS
29 in the Melrose neighborhood.
Diaz also posthumously
honored longtime lesbian
leader Janet Weinberg, who
had held senior positions
at Gay Men’s Health Crisis,
the LGBT Community Center,
and the Educational Alliance.
Weinberg died last September,
and her spouse, New
York State Appellate Division
Justice Rosalyn H. Richter,
was on hand to accept the
honor.
The evening’s red carpet
was hosted by Tym Moss and
Appolonia Cruz, the emcees
were Vivika Westwood Mugler
and Jahlissa A. Ross, and
the Reina Project and Sasha
Washington performed.
Diaz with representatives of the Gay-Straight Alliance Hands in 4 Youth
at PS/ MS 29 in Melrose.
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