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NYC Pride announces its Grand Marshals slated to lead the NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 27, 2021. Wilson Cruz, Ceyenne Doroshow, Menaka Gurus- wamy & Arundha Katju, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, and Aaron Philip will head this year's celebra on. Wilson Cruz currently stars as Dr. Hugh Culber on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery, which won a GLAAD award last year. He appeared on the Ne lix series 13 Reasons Why and in Hulu's GLAAD Award- Winning series The Bravest Knight. He is also the Ex- ecu ve Producer of Visible: Out on Television airing on Apple TV+. Wilson became the first openly gay ac- tor playing an openly gay role on series television for his role as Rickie Vasquez on the ABC series My So Called Life, a role for which he received the Emery S. Hetrick Award from the Hetrick-Mar n Ins tute for Outstanding Contribu ons to LGBTQ Youth. Ceyenne Doroshow is a compassionate powerhouse performer, ac vist, organizer, community-based re- searcher and public figure in the trans and sex worker rights' movements. As the Founder and Execu ve Di- rector of G.L.I.T.S., she works to provide holis c care to LGBTQ sex workers while serving on the boards of SWOP Behind Bars, Caribbean Equality Project, SOAR Ins tute, SWP, TGJIP of San Francisco, and NYTAG. Her presenta ons include Harm Reduc on Coali on, the Interna onal AIDS Conferences, and now PRIDE on FX. Menaka Guruswamy is a Senior Advocate at the Su- preme Court of India who has defended government legisla on that mandates that all private schools admit disadvantaged children, and overturned sec- on 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized same-sex rela ons. Arundha Katju is a lawyer prac- cing in Indian trial and appellate courts who suc- cessfully represented the lead pe oners in Navtej Singh Johar and others v Union of India, where the Court struck down India's 157-year-old sodomy law. In 2019, Katju and Guruswamy were amongst TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influen al People of the Year for their work on the Johar case. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is recognized interna onally as an expert in HIV preven on and has focused much of his career on the preven on and treatment of HIV and other STIs as an ac vist physician with a focus on LGBTQIA+ communi es. He is also dedicated to improving the health of underserved communi es and is passionate about addressing health equity. He works to address s gma in HIV by promo ng "sta- tus neutral" service delivery and programming and by improving overall health and wellbeing of people with or at risk for HIV by addressing key social de- terminants of health. He currently serves as the Di- rector of the Center for Disease Control's Division of HIV/AIDS Preven on. Aaron Rose Philip hails from The Bronx by way of Grand Marshals - Con't on page 16 14 |Diversity Rules Magazine| June 2021 NYC Grand Marshalls Announced A Book By Julienne Ryan

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