The job is not done and there is much work ahead. So every once in awhile we need to “let our hair down,” or put on some rainbow-colored wigs, and celebrate “Pride” in whatever way we can.

Thanks to those very same conservatives, this entire country now resembles nothing so much as their stereotype of a loser writ large.

Three faces of Pride will ride as Grand Marshals in this year’s New York City Pride March, June 27–Judy Shepard, Lt. Dan Choi, and Constance McMillen.