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Crowley Moves to Name Post Office for Jeanne, Jules Manford
Queens congressmember introduces bill to honor PFLAG founders in Jackson Heights BY BILL PARRY
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GayCityNews.nyc | June 11 - 24 , 2015
US REPRESENTATIVE JOE CROWLEY’S OFFICE
n the eve of LGBT Pride Month, US Representative Joe Crowley, a Jackson Heights Democrat, joined other elected officials to announce legislation to rename the Jackson Representative Joe Crowley is joined by State Senator José Heights Post Office in Peralta, City Councilmember Dromm, and Assemblyman Francisco Moya outside the Jackson Heights post office. honor of Jeanne and Jules Manford, the late Queens residents and national momentum to a movement. “While people were associatheroes who fought for the advancement of equal rights for LGBT ing the gay rights movement with Christopher Street in Manhattan, Americans. The Manfords founded Parents, here in Queens Jeanne and Jules Families and Friends of Lesbians were fighting for equal rights,” he and Gays, now known as PFLAG, said. Morty’s sister, Suzanne Manford after their out gay son Morty was beaten in 1972 during a protest Swan, the only surviving member over news coverage of the gay rights of the family, sent words of support movement. Jeanne was the original for Crowley’s effort from her West grand marshal of the Queens LGBT Coast home. “My mother and father’s love Pride Parade, which City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, also a and acceptance of their son’s Jackson Heights Democrat, found- homosexuality became a guiding light for parents and friends ed in 1993. “Through their unconditional struggling with the unhappy social love of their openly gay son, Jeanne mores of the time,” she said. “They and Jules Manford helped change were both born and lived their the hearts and minds of so many entire lives in Queens. They loved people in Queens and throughout it there and loved all Queens had to offer. They would be so pleased the city of New York,” Crowley said. The Manfords established PFLAG to have this post office named after to promote the rights, health, and them.” In February 2013, President well-being of the LGBT community as well as their families and friends. Barack Obama honored Jeanne Today, PFLAG has more than 350 Manford posthumously — just a chapters and over 200,000 mem- month after her death — with the Presidential Citizens Medal, the bers in all 50 states. “Jeanne and Jules Manford were nation’s second highest civilian the parents of the gay rights move- honor. “Jeanne Manford proved the ment,” Dromm said. “They were the first parents of an openly gay child power of a single person to transform the world,” Jody Huckaby, to support that child in public.” State Senator José Peralta, a PFLAG’s national executive direcDemocrat from East Elmhurst, tor, said at the time of her death at recalled how Jeanne Manford wrote age 92. “She paved the way for us to a letter to the editor of the New speak out for what is right, uniting York Post in 1972 saying, “I have the unique parent, family, and ally a homosexual son and I love him.” voice with the voice of LGBT people Peralta said those words brought everywhere.”
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