No Pride parade in Boston this year

if there are people willing and able to take it over.

enjoys tremendous success

There will be a Dyke March this year, as noted in the WGBH article linked in another comment.

Last summer there was a low-key non-marching event on the Common organized by the people who usually organize the Boston Dyke March.

Parades are a dying tradition. What people enjoy today are protests and counterprotests.

As an ally, I’m going to the Providence event. Same train, different direction and way less drama.
Peace/out

And age will be the divide.

What is now NYC Pride was the Christopher Street Day Parade. It was very much an in your face, "we're here, we're queer, get used to it." The word pride comes in as a response to the SHAME that has always been part of suppression and oppression of gays, lesbians, etc.

In some places that shame has been largely diluted. At least in Boston. Far from gone, but at least diluted enough that even large corporations would get in on the parade.

I am not saddened that there is no parade this year. It has become an apolitical event that has no teeth. All sugar but no fiber. To me it's also mostly playtime. I've enjoyed my years of playtime of loud music, plenty of alcohol and general revelry. Heck, in my youth I was very much part of that aspect.

But I also remember that fundamentally what we call Gay Pride today was the annual demand that we will not be forgotten, ignored or treated as though we don't exist.

It's been about 2 generations since the Compton's Cafeteria riot and the Christopher Street rebellion. Yet there are plenty of people who want anyone who is refuses to wear the right clothes, call themselves by the right names, birth the right number of babies, etc. to just disappear. As long as they wage culture war there will be no shortage of community fighting back.

Maybe the best thing is for the Boston Pride Parade to die so that something may be reborn.

Appropriate given the confluence of major religious high holidays.

The implosion of Boston Pride can also be explained in part by this acronym: QTBIPOC. Here's the statement by Boston Pride announcing its dissolution.

https://www.bostonpride.org

It is clear to us that our community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride. We have heard the concerns of the QTBIPOC [Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] community and others. We care too much to stand in the way. Therefore, Boston Pride is dissolving. There will be no further events or programming planned, and the board is taking steps to close down the organization.

Silly old pride was too gay, too lesbian. Not enough other letters and other issues. With gay rights largely won, the youth wanted the gay rights movement to pivot to a sort of all-purpose social justice movement. And they wanted the gays and lesbians who created and ran pride to keep working, while taking an ideological beating from their new overlords. If you're same sex attracted, you're not only no longer central, but you're suspect.

This Quillette article has greater detail.

https://quillette.com/2021/10/13/the-implosion-of-...

The protesters against Pride, who repeatedly interrupted the march with demonstrations, demanded more BLM, less police (and for goodness sake, no police as parade marshalls), no Israel, and definitely no Log Cabin Republicans. And white people, such as those gays and lesbians who founded and ran the organization, should just sit down and shut up.

But activists weren’t satisfied, and the board was pressured to make more concessions—including the shelving of nearly all virtual Pride events in favor of “Events that Support the Black and Brown Community.” But by this time, it seemed no gesture of apology or appeasement would suffice. And some former volunteers set up a rival group called Pride 4 The People as a vehicle to organize boycotts. A group of transgender activists also started a separate group called Trans Resistance MA to “advocat[e] for the safety, joy, and liberation of TQBIPOC” (this term being identical to “QTBIPOC,” except with the Q and T pointedly reversed). Together, these groups put on a “Trans Resistance March and Vigil for Black Trans Lives” as an alternative to the cancelled Pride parade. But in contrast to the celebratory, upbeat mood that generally characterizes Pride, the March and Vigil were somber and somewhat morbid.

The organizers even issued a set of special instructions for any “white person planning to attend the event.” One commenter advised that “white queers [should] pretend that you are attending a funeral for a friend of a friend of a friend. You want to support the friends there, but you didn’t really know the person who passed. Would you shove yourself to the front of the room and sob and make everyone else uncomfortable? I sure hope not. That funeral isn’t for you, it’s for the people who are seriously hurting and you’re there to show support.” Sounds fun, no?

See up there, how easily gay is demoted to "queer?" If a gay man is offended by that, he clearly doesn't matter to these folks. But why should people who created an organization to support same-sex attracted people put up with being forced to work as servants to people whose ideas they don't agree with, and lose even the right to define who they are?

Since Obergefell, Pride organizations in many parts of North America have been flush with cash and political influence, but not quite sure what to do with it. In Boston, as in other cities, Pride has fractured into several camps. One is made up of those who are happy to see Pride become a blander, more corporate, mass participation institution within America’s ever-expanding civic calendar. The second major bloc is made up of those who seek radicalism for its own sake, and who are desperate to rekindle what they see as the revolutionary origins of Pride. And so if gay rights is no longer radical, they insist, the LGBT movement must pour its energy and resources into causes that offer the possibility of militant politics—such as radical gender movements, the erasure of biological sex, anti-capitalism, demonization of Israel, extreme forms of “anti-racism,” pacifism, and police abolition. Even gays and lesbians, now seen as the “privileged” elite of the LGBT population, are the subject of suspicion, and even animosity.

Under those conditions, with insults piled on demands, and the insistence that everybody toe a narrow ideological line, who can blame the Pride organizers for finding something better to do with their time?

As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community...

I'm behind the times. What does the "IA" stand for?