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it should resonate with everybody, but it's something inspired by Marsha P. Johnson, trans woman who was key and instrumental in the modern sort of gay rights, LGBT rights movement back from Stonewall.
And so knowing that we have her as inspiration,
Really feels good for me to be able to step in to those shoes and sort of pick up and carry the torch where she left off.
And so if you're going to be in NYC, Pride Month, everybody knows it's June.
New York City Pride is the end of the month.
55 years, I think, after the Stonewall uprising in the heart of New York City, Greenwich Village, where police officers were attacking the LGBT community, raiding a gay bar, and then also focusing and targeting trans sex workers and people who were on the street who didn't have all the money and the protection that they would normally have.
So 50-something years later, here we are.
We're going to be marching for pride.
We're going to be marching to tell people that we're out and proud.
We're not going anywhere, but we're also ready for the fight.
I absolutely love the job that he's doing.
How I feel about him on the side, I love him.
But I don't want to psych myself into being like, it's just him.
He could mess up one day and then we'll hold him accountable.
What I love is his ability to want to be held accountable, the way that he is operating in what feels to be a very transparent manner.
And he came in the door principled.
And that we have that, I know that the city and the people in the city are going to be so much better off.