Commemorate, Educate, Liberate – Celebrate!

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center will be celebrating PRIDE on Sunday, June 25, 2006 for the 36th San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Celebration 2006. The Pride theme this year highlights empowerment through activism: pay tribute to our community’s accomplishments, educate our own and others, and PARTY! Commemorate a great year for our community by marching with the A&PI Wellness Center Parade Contingent/ Float in the Grand Parade. Be an educator and liberator by volunteering in the A&PI Wellness Booth and Pavilion. And celebrate! Dance, sing, and have fun with a fabulous line-up of artists and entertainers at the A&PI Pride Stage on Polk Street at Golden Gate Avenue, right by the Asian & Pacific Islander Pavilion.

Asian &Pacific Islander Grand Marshals

Celebrity Grand Marshal

Honey Labrador

Community Grand Marshals

Robert Bernardo

Robert Bernardo is the first openly-gay Jewish, Filipino commissioner in the City of South San Francisco. He is also co-chair of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance. His community activism spans 20 years: while a student at UC Davis, he helped establish a gay studies class. During the AIDS crisis, Bernardo worked as a health educator at the Asian AIDS Project. He worked as a San Francisco District Attorney Criminal Investigator solving hate crimes and volunteered for Community United Against Violence. He is active at his synagogue, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav.

Cecilia Chung

Cecilia Chung, Deputy Director of Transgender Law Center and San Francisco Human Rights Commissioner, is a long time activist of the transgender communities and people living with HIV. An openly trans and HIV+ woman, Cecilia was a member of the Transgender Discrimination Task Force in 1994 that lead to a groundbreaking report by the SF Human Rights Commission. Cecilia was elected as board president of SF Pride in 2001 and was one of the producers of Trans March, one of San Francisco’s largest transgender events, and in 2005 produced the first ever Trans Stage at San Francisco Pride.

Lancy Woo and Cristy Chung

Lead plaintiffs in the Woo v. Lockyer case – fighting for marriage equality for all. They own a dog grooming business, VIP Grooming.  Cristy is a fundraising consultant and diversity trainer. Both are parent activists working to make SF Public Schools welcoming to LGBT families. They have been together for 18 years, and have a 7 year old daughter, Olivia.  Their hope is to make the world a better place for all children.

Marion Abdullah


Marion Abdullah is a longstanding LGBT activist involved in organizing Creating Change. She joined the Asian Pacific Lesbian Network, participated in women of color events, was involved in the inaugural meeting of Older Lesbians Organized for Change (OLOC), helped organize the Annual Elder Conference, volunteered with Women's Building and PFLAG, and is active in AIDS and breast cancer organizations. Working to ensure an elder presence in organizations such as East Bay Pride and Out in Oakland, Abdullah is considered an expert on aging issues. She is active in many organizations and is working on the Elder Committee for Creating Change, striving to improve conditions in the Bay Area. She also contributes to the LGBT Cancer Board, Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, the Mayor’s Roundtable of Oakland, Asian Pacific Queer Women and Transgender Coalition, is a member of AAL40+, New Leaf and is a survivor of breast cancer.

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