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Rochester Pride Parade took a new route this year. A short march down South Avenue from Science Parkway to Highland Park.
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A group of residents and a staff member from Legacy at Clover Blossom carry signs and march in the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Sam Brett, also known as Samantha Vega was the Pride Grand Marshal.
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People were sending bubbles in the air throughout the parade.
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Over one hundred groups marched in the Rochester Pride Parade.
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A group danced while waiting for movement in the parade line.
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Cydny Miller dances with a flag draped over her shoulder as groups march by.
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Carol Lundquist opens her arms to hug someone in the parade she knows. She was going to march with a group that were wearing Free Mom Hugs shirts.
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Lorna Riley waves her flag as marchers head to Highland Park, the end of the parade and where the festival was held.
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Ito Shu looks north to see what other parade group is heading towards him.
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Cherrry Almedino waves as floats go by her.
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Anna Crew-Sis, Miss Gay Pride Rochester 2024, performs a song on stage in Highland Park during the Rochester PrideFestival.
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Marvin Krieger of Irondequoit puts the finishing touches on the float for the Rainbow Seniors group before the start of the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Krystal Jones plays hide and seek with her nephew, Easton Allen, before the start of the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Honorary Marshal Javannah Davis heads towards the line up for participants in the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Molly Erler-Perry, pushing her father-in-law, Arnie Erler, turns as people take photos of them during the Rochester Pride Parade. Arnie Erler held a sign, "Straight but not narrow." They were marching with Legacy at Clover Blossom.
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Monroe County librarians march in the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Highland Park starts to fill up as the parade ends at the entrance to the park.
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A group from Black Girls Do Bike ride their bikes in the Rochester Pride Parade, one rider gets the crowd fired up by yelling, "Happy pride."
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Gates Chili Independent Winterguard performs for the crowd.
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A group reacts to a member of the Gates Chili Independent Winterguard throwing and catching his wooden rifle during the Rochester Pride Parade.
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People head to Science Parkway the start of the pride parade.
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Maxxamillion Pleazures, Mr. Gay Pride Rochester 2024, performs on stage in Highland Park during the Rochester Pride Festival.
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A group of people on the sidewalk cheer at a group marching north on South Avenue.
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People react with waves and yells of, ÒHappy Pride,Ó to marching groups in the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Jack Mandiak of Macedon ,carrying a flag, waits with Liberty Resources Behavioral Health of Rochester for the start of the Rochester Pride Parade.
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Jennifer Belcher and her daughter, Malaya, 4, wave at a fire truck going by in the Rochester Gay Pride Parade
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People start looking for a good spot to watch the parade as others head to Science Parkway to join the group they will march with.
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A large contingency of University of Rochester employees from both the hospital side and university march in the pride parade.
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Rochester Pride Parade heads north on South Avenue towards Highland Park.
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A float from Trillium Health heads towards Highland Park site of the festival and end of the parade.
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Emily Dyson is dressed stunningly for the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival on South Avenue July 20, 2024.
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There were plenty of messages conveyed at the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival.
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Jahmir Simmons, who came out seven years ago, was the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival on July 20, 2024. "I'm living my best life."
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Malachi Wonderland marks his first Rochester Pride Parade as an out trans man by scrawling the message "You are loved" in chalk on a sidewalk.
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Cheryl Hayward and Ebony Burgess came out with Monroe County’s Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the third year to celebrate inclusivity.
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Watching from the grassy sidelines with a Pride hat-topper and flag was Paul Mier, who came to support family-members.
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Three young attendees — Ellyce Tonovitz, Leila Faber and Liza DeLooze — came to Pride to have a great time, hang out with friends and take in the “positive energy.”
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There were plenty of messages conveyed at the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival.
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Attendees cheer headliner Nina Sky at the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival on July 20, 2024
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Performers show off their blinged-up space-themed costumes in a drag show hosted by Tayler Mayde at the 2024 Rochester Pride Festival in Highland Park.
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In the ballroom tent, contestants strutted and posed to enthusiastic cheers from audience members, whose eyes stayed glued on the mesmerizing performers.
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