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The event will be held at the Richmond Hill Triangle located at 133rd Street and 103rd Avenue and Liberty Avenue.
By Forum Staff
On Tuesday, June 6, at 5 p.m., the Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club, in collaboration with the Ozone Park Howard Beach Woodhaven Lions Club, the Ozone Park-Woodhaven Kiwanis Club, and the Ozone Park Residents Block Association-ozpkrba, with the blessings and support of US Congress Member Nydia Velasquez (7), NYS Senator Joseph Addabbo (15), NYS Assembly Member Stacey Pheffer-Amato (23), NYS Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar (38), Queens Boro President Donovan Richards, NYC Council Member Lynn Schulman (29), NYC Council Member Joann Ariola (32) will host the 2nd annual official Gay Pride Flag Raising ceremony.
The event is the only official event that celebrates Pride in or around any of our communities on public land.
Courtesy of Comptroller DiNapoli
The event will be held at the Richmond Hill Triangle located at 133rd Street and 103rd Avenue and Liberty Avenue. The event will kick off Pride Month, during which we officially raise the Pride flag to show our support for June.
“This is a huge accomplishment for our community to be the first to raise a flag to honor Gay pride month in our very diverse communities,” organizing officials Romeo Hitlall and Sam Esposito said. “We ask that you join us for this momentous occasion.
“We need to send a message to our diverse community in culture, religion, and old-fashioned, outdated ideals that we need to be inclusive to everyone, and the days of hate and racism in every way are no longer accepted. Please come and support this monumental occasion where we raise the Gay flag in a public triangle,” they added.
