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Cherry Grove Celebrates 15 Seasons of Pride
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert     |  
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the Leather contingent - photo by Sherri Rase,Top of the Bay contingent - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, Fruit Salad contingent - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, flagbearers Sherri Rase, Angela Ruggiero & Kay Davis - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, Daniel Nardicio (center, in hat) & the Underwear Party boys - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, Mr. Fire Island Leather 2013 & Homecoming Queen 2013 Shirley Shapiro - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, Dune (Deer) Point float - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, Grove Hotel/Ice Palace float - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert, Arts Project of Cherry Grove President Thom "Panzi" Hansen - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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The 15th annual Pride Parade, traversing downtown Cherry Grove, took place on the sunny afternoon of June 22, during the weekend before the Pride March in New York City, marking the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street in the Village, which sparked the birth of the LGBT Liberation movement.
Sherri Rase, Angela Ruggiero, and Kay Davis, bearing American and Cherry Grove flags, led the parade. Parade organizer Paul Jablonski established the order of the organization and business floats and marchers. Reigning Homecoming Queen Shirley Shapiro rode the Arts Project of Cherry Grove (APCG) float and Diane Romano and Frank Borsas, the Cherry Grove Community Association, Inc., float. The Cherry Grove volunteer Fire Department was well represented.
Lynne Tunderman, Lyn Belensky and Pat Wagnis, Barbara Hirsch and Linda Dickerman, SallyAnn Piacentino, and Julie Paradise made up a rainbow Fruit Salad contingent. Messrs. Fire Island Leather 2013 Candido Soares, 2012 Mark Nayden, 2005 Joe Saporito, and 2001—the first—this writer marched carrying the Leather Pride flag.
A group bore the flags of New York, Iowa, and other states where same-sex marriage is legal. There was a representative of the Greater Sayville Chamber of Commerce, which, her sign read, “is Proud of Pride.” Dune Point renamed itself Deer Point, with Petra, Rick, and friends sporting antlers and Nicki Cerrato, a watermelon rind and other trash in which the Fire Island deer are wont to rummage. Roque, Carmen, Amy, Brian, and Regis rode the Top of the Bay float, and Logan Hardcore, Rob, and the two Todds, the Grove Hotel/Ice Palace float, with Daniel Nardicio and a quartet of Underwear Party boys marching behind. Island Breeze and Cherry Grove Pizzeria had floats as well.
Also seen were APCG President Thom “Panzi” Hansen, the Cherry Grove Arcade Theater’s Ken Woodhouse, Joan Van Ness, photographers Lorraine Michels and Koitz, Brian and Ray, Chris Murphy and Mary, Craig Williams, Robert Conlon, and Buff Maid’s Dustin, wearing a pink tutu.

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bearing the flags of states where same-sex marriage is legal, with Greater Sayville Chamber of Commerce representative
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