Bay Bay/Downtown | Boston | June 8, 2019
A record crowd estimated at hundreds of thousands came out for Boston’s annual LGBTQ Pride Parade this year on a beautifully blue-skied Saturday. About 50,000 LGBTQA people, representing more than 400 registered groups, marched along the two-mile route, which wound its way from Copley Square, into the South End, through Bay Village, along Beacon Hill, around the public garden and Boston Common, in front of the State House and into City Hall Plaza, where the festivities continued. The festivities ran all week long, from May 31 to June 11. Its theme, “Looking Back, Loving Forward,” saluted the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the spirit of love and empowerment from then till now, and hope moving on into the future.
