Boston Pride Parade & Festival 2024 by Boston Pride For The People
When:
Saturday, Jun 08, 2024 12:00p -
8:00p
Saturday, Jun 08, 2024 12:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Boylston Street to Boston Common
Boylston Street at Copley Square
Boston, MA
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, LGBTQ+, Music, Party
Event website:
https://www.bostonprideforthepeople.org/
The 2024 Boston Pride for the People Festival (BP4TP) will take place on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
For the latest information about the Festival please visit:
www.bostonprideforthepeople.org
Parade info:
The Boston Pride Parade kicks off at 11am in Copley Square. It proceeds through the South End via Clarendon and Tremont Street, returns to Boylston Street via Berkeley Street, and then continues to Boston Common At Charles Street. Staging area: The area for parade marching contingents to gather and organize will be along Boylston Street, between Dartmouth Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Some side streets intersecting with Boylston Street will be utilized as well.
Pride Parade Route 2024: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1sSIZrp0D8ODw0BDp_cP-9qVykGCgPqI&usp=sharing
Festival and CHP Block Party info:
- Boston Common Festival Start Time: 12:00pm
- City Hall Plaza Block Party Start Time: 2:00pm
- Boston Common Festival End Time: 6:00pm
- City Hall Plaza Block Party End Time: 8:00pm
*Please note that there are two festival exhibitor locations, one at the Boston Common and another at City Hall Plaza. The Boston Common Festival is held 12-6pm . The City Hall Plaza is a 21+ event, which takes place 2-8pm.
Our Mission:
- Empower through creating LGBTQ+ community, and a culture of respectfully reaching across differences to support and love one another.
- Celebrate and honor the rich, diverse, creative, and fabulous culture of LGBTQ+ communities, and impart knowledge of LGBTQ+ history and a sense of pride among LGBTQ+ youth.
- Commemorate the Stonewall riots and memorialize the queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of color (QTBIPOC) activists at the forefront of the 20th century lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, plus (LGBTQ+) movement.
- Educate on the presence and impacts of oppression and advocate against oppression through disrupting and dismantling systems that cause harm to LGBTQ+ people, especially LGBTQ+ people who face multiple forms of marginalization.
THE PURPOSE OF THE BP4TP FESTIVAL
The purpose of the Boston Pride for the People Festival is to:
- create a community of support among LGBTQ+ individuals and families, organizations, small businesses, and ally corporations
- uplift LGBTQ+ owned and BIPOC owned businesses
- advocate for the lives and humanity of LGBTQ+ people
- celebrate the richness and complexity of LGBTQ+ community, and
- continue to advocate for equity and inclusion for all queer people, especially those who face intersecting forms of oppression
