This year, President Imani Rupert-Gordon will be honored at San Francisco Pride as one of six community grand marshals.

Director of Racial and Economic Justice Initiatives TyrONE Hanley will be representing NCLR as a community grand marshal at San Diego Pride.

From Imani:

How does it feel to be chosen as a grand marshal?  

Serving as a grand marshal for SF Pride is the honor of a lifetime. I am grateful for the work I have the opportunity to do in San Francisco every day as President of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. We continue to challenge executive orders from the Trump administration to protect transgender prisoners from sexual assault; protect the employment, retirement, and healthcare of transgender servicemembers; protect LGBTQ families from discrimination, support survivors of conversion therapy; and many other issues to build a better world for our families and our future.  

To be entrusted with the role as an SF Pride grand marshal is an honor I will always cherish.   

What does SF Pride mean to you?  

So many in our community name San Francisco as a beacon of LGBTQ history, pride, and progress—and I share that view wholeheartedly.  

SF Pride was my very first Pride, and I remember feeling simultaneously exhilarated, terrified, and completely certain there was nowhere else I wanted to be. Now, serving as a SF grand marshal, the nervousness I felt as someone just understanding her queer identity is gone, and only pride remains. There is still nowhere else in the world I would rather be.