Kathleen Warnock

“This is community,” poet and host Emmanuel Rivera declared at the Publishing Triangle’s 38th annual awards ceremony April 16 at the New School to honor LGBTQ books, their authors, and community leaders. “The fight is real. We are being targeted again and again, but we are not going anywhere.

“This is community,” poet and host Emmanuel Rivera declared at the Publishing Triangle’s 38th annual awards ceremony April 16 at the New School to honor LGBTQ books, their authors, and community leaders. “The fight is real. We are being targeted again and again, but we are not going anywhere.

In the 27 years of St. Pat’s for All, traditions have developed and grown, people step away, people join. Each parade is different, each parade is the same. There’s always joy, there’s always determination. There’s always a message to be sent loud and clear, from the speakers’ podium and in the streets. This year’s St. Pat’s for All parade in Sunnyside and Woodside brought new participants, and the ones who have been there for a long time marched to honor the ones who went before.