Natural foods chef Juan Pablo Chavez works as a demo coordinator in our Union Square store.

PrideAfter years of cheering from the sidelines, I grabbed my partner and a Carmen Miranda headdress and finally got a chance to make my debut in NYC’s Gay Pride Parade thanks to Whole Foods Market. For the first time, we fielded a merry band of team members from all the Northeast Regional stores to march down famed 5th Avenue. We represented a variety of teams-from Prepared Foods to Whole Body, from Bakery to Marketing-and all wore specially designed rainbow colored t-shirts for the 4-mile march on June 28.

Our marching team joined the 500,000 other participants and nearly 1 million spectators in the march that is now New York City’s largest. The 40th Annual NYC Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Pride March (www.nycpride.org) commemorated the beginning of the LGBT civil rights movement that started as a protest at a Greenwich Village bar named Stonewall in 1969. Read the rest of this entry »