The para honors Jul Rivera, a gay man who was attacked and killed Jackson Heights 1990.
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NEW YORK PRI (ORGULLO GAY) 2024
"No matter what lor, who you are: gray, black, blue —whatever — gay, yellow. The Queens Pri Para formed rponse to Rivera’s murr and, more directly, to the 1992 homophobic outcry over the cln of gay and lbian ntent the Children of the Rabow curriculum, which was signed to teach children tolerance of all of New York Cy’s diverse muni. As a rult, former NYC Council Fance Chair Daniel Dromm, who was then a public school teacher the borough’s Communy School District 24 (where the ntroversy was centered), me out as openly gay and cid to unter the ensug propaganda wh a fay-iendly celebratory para that would promote LGBT visibily and pri, and be based a neighborhood where many closeted gay people lived.
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