Boston Pride: Solidarity with Palestine

A sea of humanity joined in celebrating Boston’s 56th annual “Pride as Protest” march, held on June 6. The march honored the presence and resistance of LGBTQIA2S+ people throughout history and their rich diversity, culture, intersectionality, rebellious spirit and determination to resist the Trump cabal’s right-wing attacks. 

Boston LGBTQIA2S+ Pride march, June 6, 2026. (WW photo: Stevan Kirschbaum)

Numerous antiwar, immigrant rights, pro-socialist and workers’ organizations marched to thunderous cheers. They included 1199 Service Employees Union Healthcare Workers East, Massachusetts Teachers Association, hotel and dining hall workers with Local 26 UNITE HERE.  

Also demonstrating were electrical workers, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, stagehands with International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 481 and the National Association of Government Employees. They were joined by numerous community groups, including Boston Alliance of LGBTQIA2S+ Youth, Multicultural AIDS Coalition and groups supporting housing for unhoused LGBTQ+ minors.  

A contingent of pro-Palestine activists was sponsored by Boston Democratic Socialists of America, whose members drove a sound truck and led rousing chants. The contingent was joined by the Boston Coalition for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston South Asian Coalition and Workers World Party. 

They received passionate cheers, shouts and fist bumps from tens of thousands of spectators lining the two-mile march route from Copley Square to Boston Common. The crowds enthusiastically chanted, “Free, Free Palestine!” while waving hundreds of Palestinian flags distributed by marchers along the route.

March watchers embraced the group’s hundreds of fliers demanding an end to Massachusetts state government support for U.S.-Israeli war crimes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran. The marchers carried signs and banners reading “No Pride In Genocide!” and “From Stonewall to Palestine, Pride Means Fightback!” 

Chants rang out emphasizing “ICE Out,” immigrant rights, trans rights and abortion rights. The chant, “What do we want? Rent control! When do we want it?  Now!” also fired up the crowd, as millions of people face an extreme housing crisis in Massachusetts, and a ballot struggle over rent control is coming up in November.