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Jun07

Q&A: Garden State Equality’s Christian Fuscarino Discusses “United in Pride”

Posted by: Bryan Buttler

|CATEGORY: Hotel, Casino & Spa, Out at Borgata

OUT at Borgata proudly supports diversity and embraces the LGBTQ community: our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender travel enthusiasts, team members, and friends.  During Pride Month, we are happy to highlight the work of one of our OUT friends and partners, Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy and education organization.  On Sunday, June 7, Garden State Equality will present a special virtual event, “United by Pride,” that guests can participate in, no matter where they are located.  We sat down and chatted with Garden State Equality’s Executive Director Christian Fuscarino about the importance of Pride Month and remembering the history of the LGBTQ+ advocacy movement.

1.) Why is Pride important now more than ever?

This Pride Month, it’s more important than ever to remember our history — and who paved the way. The Stonewall Uprising took place 51 years ago, and it was a violent riot against police brutality led by trans women of color. One of those women was Marsha P. Johnson, a native of Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Our community understands what it means to rise up and push back against a culture that tells us we are less than, that our lives don’t matter. As we watch our nation grapple with its long history of racism and and police brutality, we should be reminded where and how the modern LGBTQ movement started and use our voices, our power to stand in solidarity with Black Americans to speak out against and dismantle injustice.


2.) How can allies like Borgata support the LGBTQ community during this time?
Borgata has gone to great lengths to build welcoming, affirming environments for its employees and customers, while also investing and supporting community organizations like Garden State Equality. For pro-equality businesses, that’s what being a true ally means.

3.) Tell us about your June 7 virtual celebration and how our guests can participate?
While the pandemic has prevented our community from gathering in person this year, we’ve got an exciting virtual Pride planned in partnership with Jersey Pride. On Sunday, June 7 at 1:00 pm, we’ll be hosting: United in Pride! This year’s unique event will feature the same great entertainment you’ve come to expect along with some special guests. For more information, please visit www.GardenStateEquality.org/unitedpride.

4.) Anything else you’d like to share including what GSE is doing to aid the community through this time.
On a normal day, Garden State Equality is here to advocate and support members of our community, and with everything happening in the world right now, it’s more important than ever that we’re here and still fighting. Over the last several weeks, we’ve been helping people directly to resolve issues with unemployment, housing, and food insecurity. We’ve even been distributing PPE to vulnerable populations. Last month, we launched a fundraiser to support New Jersey’s only homeless shelter for LGBTQ youth, the RAIN Foundation, raising over $6,000 to keep their food pantry fully stocked during this crisis. And of course, we’re still working in the statehouse to advocate for protections for LGBTQ New Jerseyans, who we know are being disproportionately impacted by the current crisis.
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