In 2019, over 30,000 people joined the festivities.Ī lot of good happened in those four decades. Over the years Northampton Pride (now Hampshire Pride), which began primarily as a protest, appropriately morphed into, mostly, a joyous celebration. When the yearly Pride marches began in the early 1980s, some participants wore paper bags over their heads to hide their identity so that they wouldn’t be ostracized from their families or fired from their jobs - public school teachers, for example. Later, on the stage constructed at the Armory Street parking lot, musicians will play and sing dancers will dance drag performers will perform 50 vendors will vend Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra will speak so will U.S. On Main Street, dozens and dozens of groups and thousands of people will march and chant and celebrate. On May 6, after a three-year COVID-induced hiatus, Pride is returning to Northampton.
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