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LA Pride Announced Black Lives Matter Protest March Will Replace Pride Parade

LA Pride organisers have announced that Black Lives Matter protest march will replace this year’s Pride Parade. Although LA Pride had previously announced this year’s Pride parade and festival would not take place because of the coronavirus pandemic, they have decided to bring Pride to the streets after all. 

On June 14th, the LGBT+ community, fifty years after the first Pride comes orating the Stonewall Riots, will march once more to protest police brutality. 

“In 1970, we gathered on Hollywood Boulevard to protest police brutality and oppression to our community,” said Estevan Montemayor, the organization’s president. “We will do that again this year, where it began, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.”


According to ‘LGBTQ Nation’, the protest march will start at 10 a.m. at the corner of Hollywood and Highland boulevards, moving on to West Hollywood and ending at Santa Monica and San Vicente boulevards.

“We encourage all community members who believe that we must root out this racial injustice and stand in solidarity with the black community and fight for real reform and change in this country on all levels of government to join us in this peaceful protest, in this march for justice,” Montemayor said.

“It is our moral imperative to honor the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who bravely led the Stonewall uprising, by standing in solidarity with the Black community against systemic racism and joining the fight for meaningful and long-lasting reform.”


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