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July 14, 2010

In Photos: Bushwick’s Gay Pride Parade

By  Aaron Short / BushwickBK.com


It wasn’t as big as the New York City Pride Parade, not by a long shot, but Make the Road New York’s annual Bushwick Pride Parade drew attention from neighborhood residents on Saturday afternoon as more than a hundred MRNY members took to the streets to demonstrate for LGBT rights.

The two-hour parade was led by GLOBE, Make the Road’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizing arm that brought out many of the nonprofit’s core members and friends, including “radical marching band” Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Queens Councilman Danny Dromm.

Same-sex marriage remains the most significant issue for many members motivated to march on Saturday, but youth organizers such as Bushwick School of Social Justice graduate Robert Moore say that tolerance and openness in the neighborhood’s public schools remain a struggle.

“It depends where you go,” said Moore. “In my school, people love it and are excited about [the pride movement], but some people are in your face, saying ‘I don’t like it, why are you gay or lesbian.’”

Make the Road also recently won a campaign against American Eagle Outfitters, an apparel company, to force it to educate employees on gender issues and strike rules that require workers to dress according to sex. MRNY charged the clothier with discrimination against transgendered job applicants. Marchers held signs demanding an end to “discrimination to transgenders.”

Afterwards, the marchers ate barbecued hot dogs, hamburgers, and rice and beans and watched the third place World Cup game, with fans split between Germany and Uruguay.


More on: GLOBE 

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On March 18, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg signed new legislation to stop federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using NYC’s criminal justice system to deport thousands of New Yorkers.

Building on legislation we helped to win just over a year ago, Local Laws 21 and 22 prohibit not only the Department of Correction but now also the NYPD from spending millions of city taxpayer dollars to hold individuals on behalf of ICE agents for detention and deportation. Each year, thousands of New York families will stay together who would otherwise have been torn apart by overly aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.

At a moment when the country is debating immigration reform, with these laws, New York City sends a clear message to Washington that tearing apart thousands of immigrant families is bad policy.

With your support, we look forward to winning national reform that keeps families together. We thank our partners at the Center for Popular Democracy, the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic and the bills’ sponsors, NYC Council Speaker Quinn and Council Member Mark-Viverito, for their courageous leadership.


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