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Grand marshals set for Pride Parade
By Maureen Donnelly
May 15, 2010, 6:59AM
Advance File Photo
Professor Kathleen Cumiskey, at left, and Robin Garber will be the grand marshals of
the sixth annual Staten Island LGBT Pride Parade & Festival, scheduled for June 5.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Robin Garber and Dr. Kathleen Cumiskey have been selected as the grand marshals
of the sixth annual Staten Island LGBT Pride Parade & Festival, scheduled for June 5.
Ms. Garber and Dr. Cumiskey will lead the parade, which steps off at noon from Central Avenue between
Slosson Terrace and Hyatt Street, through the streets of St. George. The festival will run from 1 to 5 p.m. in
Tompkinsville Park, at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Bay Street. Food, music and entertainment,
coupled with community resources, information tables and vendor tables, will be available throughout the
day.
The grand marshals will be installed during the Staten Island Pride kickoff on May 22 at 7 p.m. in the Staten
Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Pl. The fee is $3.
The event is sponsored by the Staten Island Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Center, an
initiative of Community Health Action of Staten Island.
Ms. Garber and Dr. Cumiskey were married in Canada in 2006. They founded Bent Pages in Stapleton in
2008; it is currently the only LGBT bookstore in New York City. They are founding members of Staten Island
Pride Events, an organization that holds LGBT events throughout the year.
Ms. Garber helped found the College of Staten Island's LGBT Alliance in the early 1990s, was an educator for
the Staten Island AIDS Task Force (now Community Health Action of Staten Island) and coordinator of
GMHC's Lesbian AIDS Project, before becoming a special education teacher in 2003.
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