LA Pride announces Black Lives Matter protest march will replace Pride parade
While LA Pride organizers had previously announced that the parade and festival would be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, they’re bringing Pride back to the streets after all.
Fifty years after the first Pride parade commemorating the Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ people will march down the same route to protest police brutality again. On June 14, the community will march in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
“In 1970, we gathered on Hollywood Boulevard to protest police brutality and oppression to our community,” said Estevan Montemayor, the organization’s president, told the Los Angeles Times. “We will do that again this year, where it began, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.”
Protestors nationwide have taken to the streets after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer. Police forces have further inflamed tensions by attacking peaceful protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets.
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