PRINCETON PRIDE '22
A Celebration of Community
PARADE & AFTER-PARTY
Saturday June 18th
March in Solidarity 11AM Princeton Municipal Building 400 Witherspoon Street
Dance in Celebration Princeton YMCA Paul Robeson Place
Join the inspirational & utterly fabulous Princeton Pride Parade Grand Marshal
ALAN MURAOKA
Proprietor of Hooper's Store on “Sesame Street” as well as an extraordinary actor & director in his own right appearing on television & the Broadway stage & GLAAD Media Award winner for the Sesame Street "Family Day" episode which introduced the first family to include two gay dads.
“I am beyond thrilled & honored to act as Grand Marshal of the BRCSJ Princeton Pride Parade,” espouses Alan, “On Sesame Street we try to teach tolerance, acceptance, & love, & I am inspired by the mission & vision of all the good folks at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, who are teaching the same values. Can't wait to march with them & tell all our friends & fam how to get, how to get, how to get to Princeton Pride!"
The event also features “Miss Stonewall Inn” Cissy Walken as Parade Queen & as Flag-Bearers, inspirational young members of the BRCSJ family, Gabriella & Rose.
“We all have a home here at the Center, a safe space to learn & grow & celebrate all that we are. I was a broken child when I started getting involved with this community,” shares Gabriella, who serves as BRCSJ Queer Youth Advocacy Community Liaison, “Now I am a strong, confident, proud, young woman. I am so grateful to be able to stand here today, as my whole true self, & I cannot wait to now carry the BRCSJ flag at this extraordinary Pride event!”
Further representing at Princeton Pride ’22 will be BRCSJ Board Member Michelle Elizabeth Brown, poet & activist from Detroit, who will share remarks in honor of Juneteenth; fabulous Queer Icons Chet Kabara & Frank Mahood (co-founder of Gay People Princeton), who have been present at Pride events for decades in matching rainbow outfits; Erin Worrell, Trans-Activist & BRCSJ Board President; the Pride Puppets who celebrate 50 years of LGBTQIA history with 10-foot tall puppets of movement activist heroes; BRCSJ Board Member Glen Pannell who will bring his hot pants out of retirement to show he hasn’t missed a leg day since his time as everyone’s fave faux Vice Prez Mike Hot-Pence; Princeton Mayor Mark Freda, Senator Andrew Zwicker, & Maplewood’s first openly gay Mayor Dean Dafis (another BRCSJ Board Member!); Philadelphia Freedom Band... & más y más!
In 2019, the BRCSJ organized Princeton's 1st-ever Pride Parade with over 3,000 folx in the streets & then over the pandemic years in ’20 & '21 shared community with over 25,000 viewers at the Center’s international Virtual Pride events featuring Billy Porter, Tituss Burgess, Billie Jean King, Sam Sparro, Jill Sobule, Sampson McCormick, Luis & Bob from Sesame St. & más y más!
Now in 2022 we are back on the streets & in community together again after too long apart~ You ain't seen nothin' yet!
“We invite all to join us as our LGBTQIA community & their friends, allies, & families (chosen or otherwise) march, dance, roll, stroll, & sashay through the historic Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood to end up at the fabulous after-party at the Princeton Y”, shares BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber. “What better way to walk the walk (both literally & figuratively) of inclusivity & intersectionality than to bring together all of our beautifully diverse folx in Princeton & in the greater community!”
Please visit www.rustincenter.org for more information on how to march & participate as well as how to donate, volunteer, or otherwise be of service.
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, located on 12 Stockton St. in Princeton, NJ, is an educational bridge, community activist center, & safe-space for our LGBTQIA kids, our intersectional families, & all our beautifully diverse folx, connecting our disparate communities, both locally & nationally.
Angelic Troublemakers back together in beautiful community once again all y'all!