"In Order to Form
a More Perfect Union..."

• Community anger and state-wide protests in response to passage of Proposition 8 in November of 2008, which overturned the California Supreme Court's decision legalzing same-sex marriage
• Maine's legislature passes and governor signs into law a bill which would have legalized same-sex marriage in the state until voter's rejected the law in a referendum vote which became known as Question 1
• Stonewall and Gay Liberation Front's 40th anniversary
• Stonewall/GLF 40th anniversary contingent and Stonewall 2.0 contingent lead the front of the Parade after Dykes on Bikes

Celebrity:
Cloris Leachman; Lt. Dan Choi; the MILK Movie Team: Bruce Cohen, Dan Nicoletta, Howard Rosenman

Lifetime Achievement:
William Beasely

Special Guests:
Calpernia Addams, Ongina, Darryl Stephens, Shirley Tan & Jay Mercado, Cast of "WICKED"

Community Grand Marshals:
Joe Hawkins, Molly McKay & Davina Kotulski, Shannon Minter, Andrea Shorter, Helen Zia

Organizational Grand Marshal:
National Association for the Advancemnet of Colored People (NAACP)