NYC Satisfaction has unveiled the grand marshals for this yr’s NYC Satisfaction March, one of many largest annual Satisfaction parades on the planet. 

The march, which is able to happen on Sunday, June 26, in Manhattan, will function 5 grand marshals: social media star Ts Madison; transgender former NCAA swimmer Schuyler Bailar; ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio; “Saturday Night time Dwell” solid member Punkie Johnson; and Okra Undertaking Government Director Dominique Morgan.

The march’s director, Bansri Manek, stated this yr’s grand marshals have helped others discover their true selves. 

“At a time when LGBTQIA+ persons are beneath elevated assault, the NYC Satisfaction March is a beacon of hope and neighborhood,”  Manek stated in an emailed assertion. “Our grand marshals for this yr actually embody the spirit of the theme for NYC Satisfaction 2022, ‘Unapologetically Us.’ They’ve embraced their identities and used their platforms to assist members of our neighborhood actually love and dwell their reality with out worry or disgrace.”

For the second yr in a row, transgender actor Angelica Ross, greatest identified for her position in FX’s “Pose,” will return as a co-host and performer. 

Along with the annual Satisfaction March, NYC Satisfaction will even be organizing PrideFest, an LGBTQ avenue honest; Satisfaction Island, a music competition; and Youth Satisfaction. That is the primary time because the pandemic began in 2020 that New York Metropolis’s Satisfaction programming has returned to a totally in-person lineup.

Final yr, NYC Satisfaction hosted a largely digital program alongside an in-person march with restricted attendance as a result of Covid-19 disaster. In 2020, the town’s Satisfaction march was canceled for the primary time because the annual occasion began in June 1970.

The NYC Satisfaction March kicks off at 12 p.m. on June 26, and will likely be aired in New York on WABC-TV, in addition to ABC7NY.com and ABC Information Dwell.

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