Andy Cohen Serves As Grand Marshal To Miami's Gay Pride Parade
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | April 17, 2011
Andy Cohen, host of cabler Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, served as the grand marshal at this year's third annual Miami Beach Gay Pride and Festival.
Cohen rolled down Ocean Drive in the back of a Rolls Royce on Saturday waving to the crowd.
Miami Beach's parade kicks off a long – and becoming longer – gay pride season that hits its stride in June.
Last year's co-grand marshals gay rights activist Lt. Dan Choi and actress Sharon Gless helmed the parade from the back seat of a vintage Rolls Royce, bringing much attention to the burgeoning parade.
One of the parade's highlights this year was a column of vintage cars carrying four-dozen mature gay couples who have been together for decades, the Miami Herald reported.
Chuck Hunziker, 78, and Bob Collier, 76, of Fort Lauderdale, met on a Fourth of July in Brooklyn 48 years ago.
“Fireworks,” Hunziker told the paper. “That's how we remember our anniversary date.”
“A lot of [the kids] joke that we've been together longer than they've been alive,” Collier said, adding that his straight brother has been married four times. “I'm the more stable one in my marriage.”