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About a million people turned out to watch and take part in Saturday's Boston Pride for the People Parade and Festival, an event Mayor Michelle Wu called one of the biggest and best weekends of the year.
More than groups made up of over 10, participants marched in the parade.
The mile road took a winding path, starting on Clarendon Street in Copley Square, turning left on Tremont Street, left onto Berkeley Lane and right on Boylston before taking Charles toward the Boston Common.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters temporarily blocked the pride parade route and clashed with police in their continued calls for a ceasefire.
Protesters brought the parade to a dead stop for several minutes before police broke it up, making multiple arrests. The march went on, and so did the protest.
The parade was stopped during the clash between police and protesters.
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The Boston Pride for the People Parade wound through the city on Saturday, from Copley Square and through South End and Back Bay.
Huge crowds of people turned out despite some lingering rain Saturday morning.
"It doesn’t matter, rain or shine," said one woman in the South End. "These kids will be out here, rain or shine — offer them a lollipop and some rainbow tattoos and they’re very happy."
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Boston, from Copley Square to the Common, in the city&#;s annual Pride march. See all the move of the Boston Lgbtq+ fest for the People Pride from Back Bay to the South End right here with our team coverage.
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About a million people turned out for last year's parade, with groups and 15, participants participating.
The mile route took a winding path, starting on Clarendon Street in Copley Square, turning left on Tremont Street, left onto Berkeley Street and right on Boylston before t
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The pride had been canceled in and due to the Covid pandemic, though its absence in spring was for a different reason: the lack of a clear organizer. Boston Self-acceptance, the group that had managed the parade for the last five decades, announced plans to dissolve amid controversy in , and with it went queer Bostonians’ chances for a Pride march for that year.
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