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Glen Cove raises LGBTQ flag for Pride annual Pride flag-raising downtown on June 2. She began the initiative in 2019 to spread The lesbian, gay, bisexual, awareness of the discrimination transgender and queer commu- the LGBTQ community continnity continue to fight for their ues to face across the country rights and acceptance in society and worldwide. every day. And LGBTQ youth, “We’ve come a long way from according to the New York Civil where we were even 20, 30, 40 Liberties Union, years ago,” Silvercontinue to be bulman said. “And yet lied, overpoliced there’s so much and targeted. more to go, and In 1999, during that’s across not President Bill Clinjust Glen Cove, ton’s administrathat’s across the tion, June became country, across the known as Pride world.” Month, in honor of Representatives the Stonewall riots of Glen Cove High in June 1969, a School’s Genders series of demon- MARshA and Sexual Allistrations in ance were invited sIlVERMAN response to a to the flag-raising. police raid of Man- Glen Cove “I think it’s imporhattan’s Stonewall councilwoman tant to teach our Inn, a gay bar. youth not only that “I wish we it’s OK to be who didn’t have to celebrate,” Glen you are,” Silverman said, “but Cove City Councilwoman Mar- also, to fight for what’s right for sha Silverman said. “I wish others.” everybody could be treated Because of a downpour, the equally. And I’m hopeful that ceremony, at which there were someday we will all get there. I roughly 50 guests, began in City hope that we have equality, not Hall. Sarah Yates, a Glen Cove just for LGBTQ plus, but really High senior and the president of for everybody.” GSA, and Elle Woska, a junior In support of the community, and the organization’s vice presiSilverman organized the fourth Continued on page 4
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DR. RIChARD BARAkAT, physician in chief of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute, left, and Michael Epstein, the health care network’s chairman of the board, gave keynote speaker Carol Silva a ceremonial Northwell white coat at Cancer Survivor’s Day.
1,200 gather for Northwell’s annual Cancer Survivor’s Day By lETIshA DAss ldass@liherald.com
More than 1,200 cancer survivors gathered for Northwell’s 15th annual Don Monti Cancer Survivor’s Day last Saturday outside the Monter Cancer Center in New Hyde Park, commemorating their success against cancer with music, dancing, and shared stories. Former News12 anchor Carol Silva, a longtime resident of Oyster Bay and one of the keynote speakers for the event, was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to
her brain, where there were 12 more tumors, in September 2019, at age 65. Silva lived a healthy lifestyle, had no previous medical history with cancer and was a nonsmoker, but after putting up with a pesky cough for about a year, she underwent multiple imaging tests at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Later, at the Center for Advanced Medicine, she received her diagnosis. Silva’s response to the news: “Thank you, God, for my healing.” Her husband, Bob Reilly, said he was afraid Continued on page 10
hope that we have equality, not just for LGBTQ plus, but really for everybody.