Pride NYC coordinates the largest Pride March in the world. As I have said in previous updates, the topic of body-shaming organizations and their propaganda marching in Pride NYC is an issue the Pride NYC organizers do not want to talk about. This is unacceptable—as Pride March organizers, these individuals should not only be more receptive to topics of social justice and equality, but consider it their responsibility, duty and job to uphold the sanctity of those values in Pride. However, it is not unheard of for non-profits / charity events or other organizations to have ulterior motives, or to be incapable of proving that their values are consistent and beneficial. “Intact America”, for example, claims to have men’s best interests at heart, but are unequivocally demeaning and discriminatory in their words and actions towards circumcised men. While Pride March NYC may support the LGBT community and other minority groups with humanitarian values in mind, they are encouraging something that is derogatory to a minority group in their march, and therefore fail to prove the consistency of their core values, and perhaps even have ulterior motives against circumcised men. Pride NYC March Director Julian Sanjivan victimized himself and his own body in the face of substantiation that circumcised men are a minority group under fire in Pride March NYC, and stands proudly behind organizations like “Intact America”, which bully circumcised men, so sadly, I would not consider the latter improbable. https://www.docdroid.net/tY87U1c/pride-parade-discriminates.pdfl https://sabercathost.com/98iQ/Wall.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/dkfM/ChrisVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/98iN/AmandaVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/4Wg7/DavidVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/dkL3/EboniVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/hxdS/BrittonVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/4X0v/2ndEbonyVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/4Xdy/2ndBrittonVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/hy8V/2ndAmandaVoicemail.mp3 https://sabercathost.com/hy8W/2ndChrisVoicemail.mp3 (These are download links of local call recordings--most intelligible when listened to on mobile devie with earbuds or headphones). So what can we do? Here are the Pride NYC organizers’ public email addresses: Executive Board cochairs@nycpride.org – Co-Chairs David Studinski & Maryanne Roberto mario@nycpride.org – Secretary Mario Longhi maryanne@nycpride.org – Treasurer Maryanne Roberto Fine tommy@nycpride.org – Stonewall 50 Director Tommy Hom bruce@nycpride.org – Community Relations Director Bruce Patcher jose@nycpride.org – Dance on the Pier Direction Jose Ramos michele@nycpride.org – Development / Teaze Director Michele Irimia harrison@nycpride.org – Human Resources Director Harisson Lugo julian@nycpride.org – March Director Julian Sanjivan james@nycpride.org – Media Director James Fallarino lori@nycpride.org – PrideFest Director Lori Roberto Fine stephen@nycpride.org – Rally Director Stephen Sheffer sue@nycpride.org – Strategic Planning Director Sue Doster Stonewall 50 Committee chrisf@nycpride.org – Managing Director Chris Frederick britton@nycpride.org – Director of Operations Britton Hogge amanda@nycpride.org – Event Manager Amanda Younger eboni@nycpride.org – Communications Manager Eboni Munn Here is the Pride Parade NYC contact number: 212 – 807 – 7433 (Be mindful of your own area code). What we can do is continue to reach the Pride Parade NYC organizers, express the matter at hand, and raise awareness. Julian Sanjivan eventually displayed a blatant disregard of the content of my emails and petitions, and proved incorrigible, but other Pride Parade NYC organizers may not be the same way. We are relying fully on the integrity and sincerity of these individuals. The only reason this may be a problem is because there is an extenuating conflict of whether this integrity exists or not. If you decide to reach out, and are unsure of how to relay your concerns, I encourage you to refer to the exchanges I have had with organizers and staff members, in the screenshots and audio logs I have included earlier and will continue to update. This is a very new topic, and a forum for it to be properly discussed doesn’t seem to exist in Pride Parade NYC. We must create the forum. Bottom line: the organization “Intact America” as well as its propaganda are abusive of a global minority group, and should not be present in Pride March where, not only is tolerance the priority, but there is an audience of oppressed and vulnerable individuals, and the targeted minority group. If you care about men who are bullied, be the start of the change! Nothing happens if people don’t recognize the hate speech as hate speech.