10 Biggest Gay Events in the United States

9. Los Angeles Pride Parade 2015

Attendance: 400,000

The Los Angeles Pride Parade celebrated its 45^th Birthday on the second weekend of June 2015. Held in West Hollywood, thousands of people lined the Santa Monica Boulevard to celebrate the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual communities. The parade began at Crescent Heights Boulevard and continued in the western direction along Santa Monica Boulevard to Robertson Boulevard. LA Pride has a tradition to keep a moment of silence at noon every year, to remember those who have passed and commemorate those who have fought. One of the grand marshals of the event was Troy Perry, the only living organizer of the world’s first permitted Pride Parade in held in 1970. This was the first commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City, and paved the way for what Pride has become today.

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