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the exuberance he came upon
at Brooklyn Pride.
“It’s amazing. It’s wild for
sure, and it’s all about love from
what I’m seeing,” he said.
Becca Farsace and Allison
Talum are a couple who just
moved in together in an apartment
around the corner from
Fifth Avenue after each lived in
a different part of the borough.
“This is our fi rst time coming,”
Farsace said of Brooklyn
Pride. “We’re new to the neighborhood
but not to Brooklyn. I
really dig the community here
and it feels smaller and not as
commercial ized.”
Both she and Talum pointed
to the large number of families
in attendance with their small
children.
“One thing that’s great is
that Park Slope is a real family
sort of neighborhood, and I really
appreciate that everybody
is bringing their kids out and
seeing the community for what
it is, a very loving and accepting
neighborho od,” Talum said.
City Comptroller Scott
Stringer, marching with his
wife and two young boys, also
pointed to the joys families can
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
It was a Saturday evening love
fest in Brooklyn.
In a June 8 twilight parade
down Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue
that drew thousands and lasted
for hours, the crowd — both
activists and elected offi cials
marching and spectators lining
the sidewalk for the event’s
15-block stretch — emphasized
over and over again that love,
acceptance, and diversity were
the key words defi ning LGBTQ
Pride in the city’s most populous
borough.
And if the evening was centered
on queer pride, it was also
a celebration of pride in the special
qualities of Brooklyn and of
New York City as whole.
For spectator Rosin Kaplan,
who grew up in Park Slope,
moved elsewhere, including
San Francisco and, most recently
for fi ve years, New Orleans,
moving back to the Flatbush
side of Prospect Park
three years ago was a welcome
coming home.
“I would say one of the reasons
I’m back in New York is
that I didn’t want to have any
more anxiety about being gay,”
Kaplan said. “After so many
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years of being stressed about it
as an adult, it’s really nice to be
older and be like really gay in a
really gay city. I mean this city
is so gay. It’s so relaxing. It’s
normal here to be gay.”
Kaplan and her business
partner in a T-shirt company,
Sasha Rose, who was
visiting for 10 days from New
Orleans, had spent the afternoon
vending their T-shirts
at the Pride Festival, and
said they were ready to sleep
once the parade wrapped up.
“We want to be ready to go
to Riis Beach tomorrow and be
gay there,” Kaplan said.
Jeremy Aviles, who was visiting
from Orlando, Fla., with
a friend, also voiced wonder at
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