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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — It was a perfect weather day for the annual Boston Pride Parade Saturday.
The parade and subsequent festival and block party attracted an estimated 1,000,000 people to take part in celebrating Boston's LGBTQ+ community.
Among the 10,000 or so marchers walking the route from Copley Square to Boston Common were Mayor Michelle Wu, Senator Ed Markey, and Governor Maura Healey.
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"Thank you so much everyone for coming out to make this the best Pride that we’ve had so far," Wu told paradegoers. "We’ve seen that Boston is the city striving every day to be a home for everyone, and especially now in this moment, with all that’s happening around the country, we need Boston to be that beacon for the entire rest of the world."
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"Happy Pride, it’s a wonderful celebration, always, and it’s great to see so many people out," Governor Healey told WBZ NewsRadio. "It’s about celebrating all the victories and it’s also about a recommitment to making sure that we preserve freedoms, hard fought won freedoms and equality, here and around the country."
"Our theme is 'Still Here, In Living Color' and 'still here' describes we are still standing strong," said Adrianna Boulin, President and Organizing Committee Chair of Boston Pride for the People. "Our community, our LGBTQ+ communities have been through so much, and we are still here in spite of everything we’ve gone through, everything we’ve fought for. And we’re also still here because we are still fighting to exist."
WBZ's Mike Macklin reports.
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