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June 14, 2009
VCS Gay Pride Rockland Sunday |
Elected Officials and Religious Leaders show their support on Gay Pride Rockland Sunday.
Elected officials in attendance: US Congressman Eliot Engel; NYS Senator Thomas Duane; NYS Assemblywoman Ellen C. Jaffee; NYS Assemblyman Kenneth P. Zebrowski; Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef; Rockland County Legislator Harriet D. Cornell, Chairwoman; Rockland County Legislator Connie L. Coker; Town of Clarkstown Supervisor Alexander Gromack; Town of Orangetown Supervisor Thom Kleiner; Village of Nyack Mayor John H. Shields, Jr.; Village of South Nyack Mayor Patricia M. DuBow; Town of Orangetown Councilwoman Marie L. Manning, Councilman Michael Maturo; Village of Nyack Trustee Richard Kavesh; and Town of Clarkstown David Carlucci. Religous leaders in attendance: Rev. Angela Maddalone and Rabbi Paul Mack Drill. David Freed, President of Nyack Hospital also spoke. |
Phyllis B. Frank, VCS Gay Pride Rockland Executive Director, welcomes Rockland County politicians to the stage.
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Phyllis B. Frank, Director of VCS Gay Pride Rockland opens event and thanks her staff members
Jean Max Naissant, Susanne Fitzpatrick, Diana Wilkins, Vanessa Green, Joseph Coe & Karen Cancro.
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US Congressman Eliot Engel addresses the crowd.
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Nyack Mayor John Shields presents Phyllis B. Frank, VCS Gay Pride Rockland Director
with an award from the Village of Nyack.
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NYS Senator Thomas K. Duane speaks out at VCS Gay Pride Rockland. |
Becky Kanis of Knights Out speaks about Don't Ask Don't Tell. |
Crowd intently listening to the speakers from Knights Out. |
VCS Gay Pride Rockland staff Joseph Coe and Diana Wilkins.
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Silence the Feedback - Winner of the Battle of the Bands - Opens Gay Pride Rockland!
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Mal Blum entertains the crowd on Sunday. |
Volunteer Travis Tacon of Young Wolf Music Company provides sound.
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VCS Clinical staff Betsy Benjamin, Gail K. Golden and Pat Hayes. |
Volunteer Ahkiem Green-Washington, VCS Gay Pride Rockland staff members Vanessa Green and Jean Max Naissant. |
VCS staff member Alice Taylor and Rockland County Legislator Harriet Cornell.
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Joanne Goodman, Executive Director CANDLE and Deborah Cary Murnion, Executive Director of VCS Inc.
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The Swippers play at Gay Pride Sunday.
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Erin Davies brings her Fag Bug to VCS Gay Pride Rockland and speaks out.
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Simona Chazen shows her support of Gay Pride Rockland.
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The big slide at the Children's Carnival.
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