NBC10 Boston’s Sue O’Connell caught up with a slightly breathless Gov. Maura Healey and Sen. Ed Markey along the parade route to talk about the significance of Pride..
It’s time for Boston’s Pride for the People parade as the city celebrates the LGBTQ community on Saturday.
Boston Pride for the People, the volunteer-led organization behind the largest Pride celebration in New England, will kick off its celebrations with an 11 a.m. parade that will be accompanied by an all ages concert and festival that will take place on Boston Common.
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Three hundred different organizations with about 12,000 people are expected to participate in what will be the city’s nearly 60th Pride parade. The route is nearly 2 miles. It begins in Copley Square and makes its way through a number of streets in the South End and the Back Bay before ending on Charles Street between the Public Garden and the Common.
This year’s theme is Pride as Protest Since 1776, and organizers say Pride will always be a protest.
”There are still things that we are fighting for today, and so we want to remember those that fought before us,” said Adrianna Boulin.
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“The fact that we are here, the fact that in the midst of what is really an attack LGBTQ people’s rights by legislatures across the country, by our own federal government — we’re here to protest and say we’re not going anywhere,” said Gary Daffin.
This year’s celebrations are taking place one week earlier than usual to accommodate FIFA World Cup activities in Boston the following weekend.
Gov. Maura Healey said in social media post this week celebrating Pride month that Massachusetts has always been a place that believes in freedom — freedom to speak up, freedom to be yourself and freedom to love who you love.
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