The 2019 Rose Parade and It's Jewish bisexual Queen

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The 2019 Rose Parade will roll out Tuesday morning with familiar, comforting and decorative style, along with a twist of newness.

The grandest of New Year’s Day traditions is here, and we have all you need to know to follow along.


Louise Deser Siskel of San Marino, California, who told a local newspaper her life has been more “Lord of the Flies” than Disney, is the first LGBTQ queen to reign over the famous Rose Parade on New Year’s Day. (YouTube screengrab) 

In its 101-year history, the Tournament of Roses parade has never had a Rose Queen like Louise Deser Siskel.
The 18-year-old high school senior from San Marino, California, won the crown over young women from two dozen Pasadena area schools who interviewed with a selection committee during a monthlong process, according to the Tournament of Roses website.
The first African American rose queen was named in 1985. The Tournament of Roses had its first female president in 2006. The first African American president, Gerald Freeny, is serving this year.
Freeny, in a TV interview Tuesday, credited his daughter with suggesting the parade theme. A Pasadena native, he started watching at age 5. He began volunteering in 1988.
  “When I first joined I never thought I’d be president,” Freeny said.


I am Jewish. I wear glasses. I am bisexual — and I'm the Rose Queen

DEC 31, 2018 | 3:05 AM

She describes herself as “the first Rose Queen to talk about being Jewish. I feel an additional responsibility, to myself and to this tradition, to share that I am bisexual.”
“While I am almost certainly not the first member of the LGBTQ community on the court,” she wrote, “I hope that by saying so publicly, I might encourage others to be proud of who they are.

How to watch the Rose Parade

Date: Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019
Time: 11 a.m. ET
Location: Pasadena, Calif.
TV: ABC, NBC, Hallmark, KTLA 5 and more
Online Stream: WatchESPN, NBC, ABC, KTLA 5, Hallmark Channel

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