O’Sullivan said that flag was offensive and disgraceful and had no place on a pole dedicated to veterans, prosecutors said. O’Sullivan previously was convicted in July of stealing a gay pride flag from the Veterans Memorial flag pole in Guerneville three days before he made the bomb threats. “I wish the sentence was more but we’ll take what we get. The barista, Hank Dixon Myers, 62, told Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Peter Ottenweller the threat caused him fear, anxiety, nightmares and post-traumatic stress. O’Sullivan made a homophobic slur and used foul language on May 12 when he told the barista he was making pipe bombs to blow up the barista, the Safeway store and the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office’s substation in Guerneville, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. Doster said many of its Black, brown and trans members feel threatened by their presence.A Guerneville man was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in jail and three years’ probation for making a criminal threat against a gay Starbucks barista at a Safeway store in Guerneville last year.Ī Sonoma County Superior Court jury convicted Vincent Joseph O’Sullivan Jr., 56, in March of making the criminal threat and an enhancement alleging the felony was a hate crime. But Heritage of Pride last month also decided to bar uniformed police officers from its future parades. The two groups have differed over their policies on police participation in their events, which the Reclaim Pride Coalition opposes.
The defiant stand gave birth to the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
Last year's march produced no discernable spike in new coronavirus cases, he said.īoth events commemorate the June 28, 1969, uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when patrons fought back during a police raid.
Under sunny skies with muggy conditions that felt like 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), a racially mixed crowd of men and women chanted "No Justice, No Peace," and other slogans, some critical of the New York Police Department.Īfter linking last year's message to the Black Lives Matter movement, Walker said this year's theme is returning to the coalition's standard: "None of us are free until all of us are free."Īlthough the group had urged marchers to wear masks, few did. Walker said the group was hoping to draw up to 70,000 marchers. Meanwhile, thousands of people organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, whose parade began as a protest to the Pride march two years ago, marched more than 30 blocks down New York's Seventh Avenue with rainbow flags and signs that included "Liberation and Justice."Ĭoalition cofounder Jay W. “At the end of the day, HIV is just a virus, and we have the ability to prevent it and to treat it,” said Daskalakis, who is director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV/AIDS expert Dr Demetre Daskalakis, one of the event's grand marshals, urged all LGBTQ+ community members to get tested frequently for the virus. “We've made incredible progress in equality across the country, but trans people are under attack,” he added. “Six days after the shooting, we had a funeral service for my best friend and I made a promise to him that day that I would never stop fighting for a world that he would be proud of,” he told ABC, which aired the event. Guests included Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the June 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, who has since become an advocate for LGBTQ rights legislation.