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Jonathan Groff, Laverne Cox Named Grand Marshals Of NYC Pride March

Heritage of Pride, organizers of NYC Pride, made the announcement this morning.

“Our 2014 marshals are leaders in brilliant forms of activism through which LGBT people and their allies engage,” said March director David Studinski. “Individually, they represent the diversity within the LGBT community and the various struggles our community members have and continue to face. Collectively, their stories reinforce that no voice is too small nor weak to make change in our world - and it starts with being yourself.”

The largest Pride march in the U.S., the New York parade commemorates the 45th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, considered the birthplace of the LGBT equality movement.

The theme for NYC Pride this year is “We Have Won When We’re One.”

“Each year our marshals share a piece of their lives with every single person cheering along the March route,” said Media Director Tish Flynn. “Their efforts reach beyond those along Fifth Avenue, to countless others across the globe who continue to face oppression.”

The marshals will ride convertibles along the two-mile route, which begins in the caverns of Midtown Manhattan at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue. The March proceeds downtown via Fifth Avenue, turning west along 8th Street into the West Village until a sharp turn onto Christopher Street at Sixth Avenue.

Marchers continue down Christopher Street, past The Stonewall Inn, until the route disperses at Greenwich Street.

Cox will return to Orange is the New Black when the show's second season debuts in June on Netflix, while Groff can next be seen in HBO's The Normal Heart.

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