The activists released a statement, declaring that: We live in a society that has declared war on Black people, women, immigrants, trans people, poor people, and-at the intersection of all that-trans women of color. (Massachusetts had already legalized gay marriage in 2004.) On June 13th, about a dozen Black Lives Matter activists managed to halt Boston’s annual Pride parade for 11 minutes-one minute for each transgender person that had been murdered that year, they explained. Hodges, which required all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The seeds of Boston Pride’s self-destruction were sown in June 2015-ironically, just weeks before the US Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Obergefell v. And to tell it coherently, I’ll have to start with events that took place more than six years ago. By making the decision to close down, we hope new leaders will emerge from the community to lead the Pride movement in Boston.Īnd what are the QTBIPOC community’s “concerns.” Well, it’s a long, surreal, and tragicomic story. We know many people care about Pride in Boston, and we encourage them to continue the work. There will be no further events or programming planned, and the board is taking steps to close down the organization.
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We have heard the concerns of the QTBIPOC community and others. The organization was dissolved from within in July, when its board of directors released a statement that read, in part: It is clear to us that our community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride.
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I mean this literally: Boston Pride no longer exists. Rather, Boston Pride celebrated a half-century-plus of existence by collapsing into social panic and cancelling itself. This year’s events also didn’t materialize, but not entirely because of COVID-19.
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Last year would have marked the 50th parade, but the event was cancelled due to the pandemic. Boston Pride is one of the oldest gay-rights organizations in the United States, with its first parade having taken place in 1971.