Happy Pride 🌈

Today in Jackson Heights on June 1st was a glorious kickoff to Pride Month. The weather was perfect for a parade and folks turned out in fabulous force.

Thanks to Pacheco for Free Brunch at Hombres!

My friend Ricardo Pacheco is running for City Council in District 25, and he hosted a delicious brunch free to all Pride celebrants at the amazing bar, Hombres. The food was plentiful and tasty, with the best pan de bono I ever had. The food was catered by neighborhood newcomer, Miguerias, which is right next door to Hombres.

Ricardo modeling my Julie4Judge sticker 😊

Bags were empty by end - lots of giveaways!

It was nice to see Judge Glenda and have a reunion, since we all marched together last year while running on the same slate.

Here we are at last year’s parade.

We gave out 1k stickers and 3k palm cards this year! Pacheco gave out Make it Happen t-shirts and phone chargers. I don’t have that kind of money because judicial candidates don’t get matching funds. But the stickers came out nice! I put mine on my cabinet.

Let me know if you got one!

This event wasn’t a one-off photo op. I’m a life-long ally and have done civil rights work to ensure LGBTQ folk are protected. As a NYC high school teacher, the LGBTQ Club awarded me a badge to wear to designate me as one of only a handful of safe adults in the building that kids could go to in trust, safety, and love. 💕

Me & my daughter with our lovely friend Claudia.

I’m a proud rainbow mom - not only to my own children but to any child (and even adult!) who has been neglected or rejected just because of who they are. That is the absolute truth about me and I hope you don’t believe the lies Jacob Kaye wrote about me in his Queens Eagle hit piece last year (see my previous post on dirty politics). I mention this because today one of the leaders of a neighborhood Democratic club, who supports my opponent, told someone not to wear my sticker and he called me a “MAGA book burner”.😡

Please don’t listen to slander, folks. Do your own due diligence. I’m the only judicial candidate that didn’t scrub my social media. You deserve to know who your candidates are. Look at my CV posted on my website and see if you can find my opponent’s CV (you can find it in a deep Google search). My experience speaks for itself.

Julie4Judge: you deserve an experienced jurist.