from SFPride.org:
Unlike other Grand Marshal positions, the Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshal is not necessarily an annual award and is bestowed only when the appropriate occasion arises. This award is given to a person who has dedicated years of service and activism toward the LGBT community throughout the course of their lifetime. This year, Pride is recognizing a person who has given much of his time and activism to supporting the Transgender community, especially in the wake of the riots at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in 1966, but whose support for the LGBT community reaches back into the early sixties.
On a related note, the ads on the SFPride website are just too funny. The catchlines are just too tongue in cheek:
- LOGO (tv network): ‘Say you want it’
- Delta (Airlines): go anywhere. anything goes.
- San Francisco Chronicle: We Come Out Every Day
- Comcast (ISP): Hook Up. Fast.
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