Gay Pride Parade is first held.

Originally the Boston Pride March, it begins as a protest march by some 200 people from Jacques nightclub at 79 Broadway, past Boston Police Department Headquarters, to Boston Common, where a cardboard closet is smashed and boxes of anti-gay books are dumped on the ground. The parade becomes the New England LGBT Pride Parade in 1972, is re-routed through the South End in 1992, and subsequently runs from Copley Square through the Sound End to City Hall Plaza. Suspended due to the coronavirus then complaints over lack of transgender and BIPOC inclusion, it resumes with a new sponsor, Boston Pride for the People, in 2023.