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Boston Pride for the People Parade
Boston, MA · Arts & Culture
- When
- June 5, 2027
- Where
- Copley Square (parade start) · Boston · MA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Boston's LGBTQ+ Pride parade and festival, run by Boston Pride for the People, the nonprofit that revived the march after the original Boston Pride Committee, which had organized it since 1999, dissolved in 2021. The parade runs from Copley Square through the South End to a festival on Boston Common, drawing crowds regularly estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
The history within reach
- Boston Pride for the People Paradesame spot
Boston's LGBTQ+ Pride parade and festival, run by Boston Pride for the People, the nonprofit that revived the march after the original Boston Pride Committee, which had organized it since 1999, dissolved in 2021.
- Boston Book Festivalsame spot
The Boston Book Festival fills Copley Square each October with author talks, panels, and a book fair drawing publishers and independent presses from across the region.
- Boston Marathonsame spot
The world's oldest annual marathon, run from Hopkinton to a finish line on Boylston Street in Boston, held each year on Patriots' Day.
- The first public librarysame spot
The first large free municipal library in America, on the then-radical principle that a city should lend books to anybody.
Two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line killed three people and wounded hundreds in April 2013.