There’s No Place Like Home! Over 250 VNSNY Staffers Celebrate LGBTQ Pride!

The Tin Man was there … as was Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and even a flying monkey! On Sunday, June 30th, under mostly sunny skies, over 250 VNSNY staff members were among the 150,000 enthusiastic participants in the largest NYC Pride March ever. On the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall uprising, VNSNY’s contingent, which included a Wizard of Oz float featuring the theme “There’s No Place Like Home,” drew some of the day’s loudest cheers from the hundreds of thousands of spectators who lined the streets to share in this joyful celebration of the LBGTQ community.

“It was wonderful to be marching with our fellow New Yorkers as well as participants from around the world,” says Marki Flannery, VNSNY’s President and CEO. “We want the LGBTQ community to know that we’re here, we’re listening, and we’re proud to be caring for you.”

Click on the slide show below to see photos of our VNSNY marchers, our float, and characters from the Wizard of Oz, including the Wizard himself—our own Richard Rothstein, VP for Enterprise Communications—plus Jasmin Rice as Glinda the Good Witch, and Pissi Myles as the Wicked Witch of the West!