Pride parade photography
PHOTOS: 2023 LA Pride Parade
June 11, 2023 | Hollywood, CA
Over 150 parade contingents, scores of motorcycles, dancers, bands, floats, the finest LGBTQ+ nonprofits serving Greater LA, and our amazing Pride sponsors marched the one mile route down Hollywood Blvd!
The Icon Grand Marshal was queer comedian, actor and activist, Margaret Cho. The inaugural Legacy Grand Marshal honored the late, beloved Emmy-winner, Leslie Jordan. And the ACLU of Southern California was recognized as the Community Grand Marshal to commemorate its 100th anniversary of fighting for LGBTQ+ civil rights, and to recognize its key role in LA Pride’s legal fight to hold the first gay parade in 1970.
With nearly 150,000 spectators cheering us on, and thousands more watching the live broadcast on ABC7, the 2023 LA Pride Parade was a triumph of Pride and LGBTQ+ visibility, celebration, and representation.
ABC7 won an LA Area Emmy Award for their live coverage of the Parade under the Special Live Events – News category! Is the LA Pride Parade the first Pride event to win an Emmy? It might be!
Celebrate Pride Month With 15 Photos of LGBTQ Joy
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest capture vibrant parades and festivals around the world
Since 1999, June has been formally designated as Pride Month in the United States, a time to recollect the struggles of the LGBTQ community and celebrate the advances they’ve made throughout the years. “For generations, LGBTQI+ Americans verb summoned the courage to stay authentically and proudly—even when it meant putting their lives and livelihoods at risk,” President Joe Biden remarked when recognizing Pride Month this year. “This month, we recommit to realizing the promise of America for all Americans.”
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Celebrating Pride 2025
On June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village in New York City held its own in an uprising against one of the many police raids at the Stonewall Inn. Gay activists and their allies banded together in a monumental defiance that helped secure rights for the LGBTQ+ community in the years to come.
56 years on, repressive laws and social mores that restrict LGBTQ+ liberties persist. Today, homosexuality is still criminalized in 65 countries around the world. The current U.S. administration has withdrawn orders supporting health advancements for LGBTQ+ youth. Eliminating the federal recognition of transgender people, it also denies federal funding from programs that promote “gender ideology.” Yet, as the Magnum archive shows, non-violent opposition always breeds new forms. An embrace on a New York street corner when homosexuality was illegal. Displays of devotion and tenderness in Lebanon. Celebrations of queer and trans people across borders. The body unbound.
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