New York City Gay Pride Parade * Stonewall SW-40 * 2009 * SVA Float w/ SW-Vetz * S.V.A. Party at SW Club w/ John Liu * SVA Conference at Gay Center w/ Bill de Blasio

including the Gay Pride Parade
Sunday, June 28th
(always the last Sunday in June)
2009

STONEWALL Veterans' Association Float leading the NYC Gay Parade!
[Photo by Linda Yaeger]

=Stonewall 40 at Mayor's Gracie Mansion=
New York, New York
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"The Sheridan Squares"

Sheridan Squares Gay Pyg

Un-exciting contestants replaced by hotties below!
[no photo credit -- no one wants it]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg hosted his out-standing Gay Pride Party -- his 8th -- on June 23, 2009, at Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The above photo by the S.V.A. webmistress Babsala Lynne is from the 'set' of a poorly-scripted "Gay Game Show" as part of the Mayor's event. Likeable Mayor Michael, like any seasoned actor, smiled while having to present an often-silly text. Your Gay heart went out to him! Instead of the vintage television "Hollywood Squares" game show name, someone at New York City Hall not-so-cutely named it "Sheridan Squares"? No Gay connection with that name! Since many attendees and most readers herein would not know the origin of that term, it requires explanation. "SS" references Sheridan Square (actually a triangle), which is a small benched park diagonally opposite The Stonewall Club. Why could not the scripter think one more inch and named the game "Stonewall Squares" needing no definition and making clear sense on the 40th anniversary of Sheridan -- ooops -- Stonewall!

Sheridan Squares Gay game

Dennis Cooper * Williamson Henderson * Gina Wright
[Photo Credit: S.V.A. Webmistress Babsala Lynne]

Williamson and Storme DeLarverie with Public Advocate-in-Waiting Bill de Blasio,
praising the four decades of the history-making STONEWALL Veterans Assn.
[fuzzy but happy photo by Rogers Hunt]

Stonewall Vets banner on the front of the STONEWALL V.A. Float
[Photo by Hal Weiner]

Yetta-4-Council Kurland parades with a Marching Troupe of 100+
[Photo by Unkle Kay]

Norman Siegel in the NYC Stonewall-40 Gay Pride Parade

[Photo by Steven Gradman of PRIDE Dems]

Yetta Kurland's Intimate Circle at the New York Gay Pride Parade
Shown: Chris Condada and John Phillips; Elizabeth and Yetta
[Photo by Unkle Kay Frawley]

Stonewall Anniversary Party
at
The Stonewall Club
on
Monday, 29th June 2009
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

AnDre Christie, Yetta Kurland and Williamson at The Stonewall Club
[Photo by Rogers A. Hunt for S.V.A.]

NYC First District Council candidate Pete Gleason & Friends
[Photo at The Stonewall by Rogers "Ro-Ro" Hunt]

Gayly pictured (l-2-r): S.V.A. party host Williamson Henderson happily celebrating the end of a long month of "Stonewall 40" with a grand evening total of 3 greentinis; Dodge Landesman joining the Yetta campaign (as of tonight) and relishing a spicey laugh about "Dya-Ria Pastanante Duh", one of her opponents; Steven Gradman, Vice-President of PRIDE Democrats, whose three NYC-wide endorsees are all in the lead; First District City Council openly-Gay candidate Yetta Kurland, who just picked up three more organizational endorsements and another newspaper nod; the lovely Jeanne Wilcke, the striking campaign manager for Mr. Gleason; and the openly-strait First District NYC Council candidate himself, Pete Gleason. The fun time at The Stonewall Club was co-hosted by the captivating AnDre Christie of Youth-4-SVA, who also manned the "S.V.A. Welcome Table".

New York City Councilman and NYC Comptroller candidate John C. Liu ("J-Lu") was most welcomed attending the significant STONEWALL Veterans' Association 40th anniversary party of the Stonewall Rebellion at the Stonewall Club on Stonewall Place in Greenwich Villlage. J-Lu has been in lively attendance at S.V.A. events for years. In the photo on stage at the Stonewall Cabaret Room is (l-2-r) happy trails S.V.A. Webmaster Rogers Hunt, proud Councilman John Liu, flowery S.V.A. Director Williamson Henderson and tough-looking S.V.A. Assistant AnDre Christie. In a four-way Democratic primary election and run-off -- with the support and volunteering of SVA-ers -- John Liu went to to win as the next comptroller of New York City!

Although this was a STONEWALL Veterans' Association social event, politically savvy S.V.A. Director Williamson Henderson initiated and arranged for an atmospheric distribution table to have New York City candidate information literature and donor cards available for S.V.A. supporters such as Michael Bloomberg, Leslie C. Snyder, Bill de Blasio, Yetta Kurland, John C. Liu, Melissa Viverito, Ken Diamondstone, Rosie Mendez, Dan Garodnick, Jessica Lappin and Pete Gleason.

Maurice "Maury the HOP Clown" Michaane looking puzzled and goofy as he is 'read' by Stonewall legend -- and party host -- Williamson. Maury was read for his most recent ridiculous lies, idiotic inaccuracies and stupid slander. Maury also vindictively and disrespectively omitted the 40th anniversary S.V.A. (with a float) from listing in NYC Gay Pride Parade 'line-up' program and the HOP-ers allowed the fabiscina clown to get away with it (for now) At the above S.V.A. event, Maury the HOP Clown is so sociopathic that he refused to sign the guest book or make the nominal donation of ten bucks. Talk about disrespectful and cheap!!.
[evidence photographed by Rogers Hunt]

GLBT Pride Month is honored in advertisement with the S.V.A. by NYC Mayor Michael

====41st Anniversary of the Gay Stonewall Rebellion====
[Friday night, June 27 ~through~ Thursday night, July 3, 1969]