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From YouTube: LGBT Pride Flag Raising 2017
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Mayor Walsh and Boston Pride kick off Pride Week, a week of events dedicated to celebrating the LGBT community, with the raising of the LGBT flag on City Hall Plaza.
A
B
And
on
behalf
of
Mayor
Walsh
in
the
city
of
Boston,
we'd
like
to
welcome
you
to
City
Hall
plaza,
this
is
my
favorite
time
of
the
year.
Boston
Pride,
Week,
taking-off,
Pride
Week,
is
a
joyous
occasion,
a
time
when
everyone
can
celebrate
who
they
are
I
do
want
to
start,
though,
with
a
moment
of
silence
to
remember
and
honor
those
who
cannot
be
with
us,
those
who
have
passed
due
to
illness,
old
age
or
in
the
case
of
Orlando
and
all
other
crimes
against
LGBTQ
people,
hatred
and
bigotry.
B
Thank
you,
but
today
is
a
day
for
celebration,
celebration
of
who
we
are
as
human
beings
and
who
we
are
as
Bostonians
and
I
get
to
introduce
one
of
my
favorite
Bostonians.
He
may
not
listen
to
my
fashion
advice,
sorry
mayor,
but
I
will
never
forgive
you
for
the
Karla
short
incident,
but
he's
someone
who
is
always
there
to
help
the
LGBTQ
population
thrive
thrive
as
who
they
are
and
who
they
want
to
become.
He
is
someone
who
will
always
have
our
back
and
someone
who
will
listen
to
our
needs.
B
He
will
bring
us
to
the
table
to
work
on
our
concerns
and
support
us
as
individuals
and
a
community
whether
you
are
black
white,
latina
or
Asian,
whether
you're
trans,
sis,
queer
or
bi,
or
anywhere
in
between.
We
are
lucky
and
honored
to
have
a
mayor
who
supports
our
community
along
with
all
Bostonians,
and
with
that
I
would
like
to
introduce
my
friend
my
boss
and
our
mayor
mayor,
Martin,
jaebum.
Well,.
C
Thank
you,
Sam
I
want
to
thank
Sam
for
that
great
introduction.
We'll
talk
about
the
cago
short
thing
later,
but
but
I
just
wanna
I
do
want
to
thank
same
chambers.
I
met
Sam
four
years
ago
and
and
young
man
that
has
grown
into
such
a
great
responsible
person,
some
of
the
most
respectful
and
depend
upon
great
deal.
So
I
want
to
thank
Sam
chambers
for
his
great
work
here
in
the
city
of
office.
C
And
I
also
want
to
thank
Alex
APRA's,
a
young
woman
who
works
for
me,
who
I've
had
the
chance
to
watch
over
the
last
year
as
well.
Growing
her
own
right
has
probably
one
of
the
most
difficult
worse
than
one
of
the
most
difficult
areas
of
city
government
and
that's
in
my
scheduling
office,
which
is
brutal,
but
I
want
to
thank
Alex
as
well
for
being
such
a
strong
advocate
and
a
strong
leader
and
a
part
of
example,
with
so
many
people.
Thank
you
Alex
and.
C
C
C
C
C
City
Laurel
is
proud,
proud
to
be
the
first
municipality
to
properly
fly
the
rainbow
flag,
and
we
will
continue
to
fly
it
every
single
year
and
I'm
thrilled
and
we're
thrilled
as
all
the
electors
here
to
welcome
everyone,
the
Spartan
City
Hall,
to
kick
off
the
47th
anniversary
of
Boston
pride
weeks.
This
year's
theme
is
stronger
together.
You
can
see
it's
a
perfect
timing
for
this
team
stronger
together
and
it's
true.
We
are
stronger
when
we
do
stand
together
and
it's
a
fitting
theme
this
year.
C
Stronger
together,
has
been
especially
important
in
the
aftermath
of
the
past
presidential
election,
we've
already
seen
the
LGBTQ
rights
being
threatened
with
seeing
protections
being
stripped
from
transgender
students
in
schools
now
in
the
city
of
Boston,
but
around
the
country
and
we're
hearing
more
hateful
rhetoric,
as
we
keep
continue
to
move
on
we're
seeing
our
national
leadership
stack
with
people
who
are
ignorant
and
intolerance.
That's
why
we
need
leaders
like
Mike
Capuano,
continues
to
fight
to
make
sure
that
right,
stay
in
this
country.
C
As
I
said
it
on
just
about
every
issue,
but
particularly
on
the
LGBTQ
community,
hard
fought
rights
are
being
threatened
around
the
country,
but,
as
we
know,
we're
not
going
to,
let
that
happen
here
in
the
city
of
Boston
Boston
in
Massachusetts
will
continue
to
lead
on
equality.
We
stand
for
love
and
acceptance,
and
we
reject
hate
and
intolerance.
C
Boston
will
continue
to
protect
the
LGBT
community
and
help
that
community
thrive
in
our
city.
We're
going
to
continue
to
host
the
largest
Pride
Parade
in
New
England,
which
are
proud
of
we're
going
to
continue
to
march
together
in
love
and
solidarity.
We're
going
to
continue
to
fly
this
flag
in
the
transgender
flag,
with
pride
in
our
hearts
and
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
joining
us
today.
C
I
hope
that
you'll
take
advantage
of
the
great
events
that
we
have
during
Pride,
Week
and
Pride
Month
I,
hope
to
see
everyone
on
Sunday
and
the
AIDS
Walk
in
next
Saturday
week
from
this
Saturday,
the
Pride
Parade
and
now
I
have
the
opportunity
to
give
a
proclamation
which
I'm
not
going
to
read
the
whole
proclamation.
Kasim
chambers
has
a
list
of
people
he
wants
to
get
pair
talking,
but
I
want
to
just
recognize.
C
B
C
A
D
Don't
know
about
that
reputation
I
have
but
anyway,
just
wanted
to
go
through
and
just
give
some
of
the
highlights
about
Pride
Week,
certainly
today
with
the
flag
raising
that
opens
the
entire
sequence
of
events.
Yes,
tomorrow
we
have
the
Pride
Day
at
Faneuil
Hall
a
very
family-oriented
event,
but
we
also
have
making
its
debut
appearance.
The
high-heeled
so
I'd
like
to
challenge
everyone
for
just
a
letõs
on,
come
on
down
and
have
some
fun.
We
have
the
AIDS
work,
AIDS
Walk
on
Sunday.
D
We
also
have
the
pride
remembrance
that
will
be
taking
place
at
the
Holocaust
site.
We
also
have
the
political
forum
Monday.
Then
we
have
the
pride,
the
Dyke
March
on
Friday,
that
we
have
pride
night
at
Fenway
Park,
another
big
time
favorite.
However,
the
Boston
Red
Sox
is
a
new
sheriff
in
town,
because
the
Revolution
is
also
matching
our
pride
nights,
which
will
be
on
Saturday
June
3rd,
so
I
am
going
to
put
my
neck
out
and
say
Celtics,
Bruins
and
Patriots.
D
It's
now
up
to
you,
then
of
course,
next
Saturday
and
Sunday
is
the
big
event.
We
have
the
pride
all
I'm
going
to
say
about
the
parade
is
that
all
the
records
books
in
the
past
will
be
totally
crushed
totally
crushed.
This
is
the
biggest
record,
breaking
the
parade
that
we
will
have
I'm,
also
very
honored,
to
say
that
the
city
of
Boston
was
selected
by
29
Orlando
pulse
survivors
that
will
be
coming
here
to
actually
March
in
our
parade.
D
We
have
the
Pride
Festival
a
free
concert
and
one
of
the
very
few
prides
and
have
a
free
festival
on
that's
open
to
everyone
and
then,
of
course,
at
night
we
do
have
our
pride,
you
stamps
and
then
on
Sunday.
We
have
the
stronger
together
rally.
So
we
do
ask
all
of
our
friends
and
families
to
please
join
us.
Then
we
correlate
the
entire
week
with
the
back
made
block
parties
as
well
as
the
JP
block
party.
So
there
is
a
ton,
a
ton
of
events
going
on
this
week.
D
F
F
So
please
pick
up
a
pride
guide.
We
have
plenty
of
them
here.
They
are
also
in
every
stop
and
shops
store
all
across
the
state
of
Massachusetts.
So
thank
you
stop
the
shop
and
we
really
want
to
thank
all
of
our
sponsors
for
really
stepping
up
to
the
plate.
This
year
and
really
making
our
47th
anniversary
a
wonderful,
wonderful
success,
the
parade
is
going
to
be
outstanding,
Martha's
done
a
great
job,
but
more
than
lastly,
thank
you.
So
much
for
choosing
I
could
ask
you
all
so
happy
pride.
G
Hi
everyone
happy
bride
we're.
Finally,
here
we've
worked
really
really
hard
for
this
year's
celebration.
As
Martha
said,
it
will
be
the
largest
ever
come
on.
Saturday
experienced
the
largest
parade
in
the
Commonwealth.
It's
really
going
to
be
something.
It
is
an
important
year
for
everybody
in
our
community.
We
need
to
mobilize
because
of
the
outcome
of
last
year's
election,
but
there
are
also
future
things
that
are
happening
that
need
to
be
on
everybody's
radar.
In
2018.
There
is
an
anti
trans
ballot
measure
that
is
on
the
books.
G
We
need
to
fight
against
it,
so
I'm
asking
each
and
every
one
of
you
to
remember
this
and
to
continue
supporting
the
community
to
continue
being
here
and
being
visible
being
loud
in
support
of
every
single
individual
that
is
part
of
our
community
and
who
highlights
this
fight
better
than
actually
the
marshal
that
we
are
honoring
this
year.
I
would
like
first
to
ask
none.
You
want
to
come
here.
We
are
honoring
this
year,
dr.
Judy
Bradford,
who
has
been
doing
such
a
wonderful
word
in
our
community
work
in
our
community.
G
E
H
H
G
Would
like
now
to
ask
T
O'connor
we're
honoring
as
well
today
and
throughout
Pride
Week
John,
Michael
gray,
half
of
the
hat
sisters
are
wonderful,
wonderful
ambassadors
in
our
community
and
beyond.
You
have
seen
them
at
many
event
there,
or
they
have
worked
very
very
hard
over
so
many
years
to
raise
funds
specifically
for
AIDS
and
HIV
fighting
organizations.
It
is
a
pleasure
to
have
you
Tim
here
to
monitor
on
today.
Thank
you.
I
Thank
you.
Everyone,
mayor
council,
members,
distinguished
guests,
pride
committee,
I,
can't
thank
you
enough
for
honoring,
John,
Michael
I,
know
Nyanza,
said
he's
with
us,
overlooking
obviously
he's
wearing
a
hat
similar
to
this
upstairs.
Hopefully,
it's
unsecure
anyway.
I
think
it
is
I
was
the
evil
one.
He
was
the
good
one,
but
it
is
an
honor
for
John
Michael
to
be
in
the
same
group
as
Judy
and
Norman.
Again,
like
nan,
said
I,
don't
want
to
I
will
repeat
the
honor
is
amazing,
I
can't.
Thank
you
enough.
I
G
G
Kristen
has
worked
very
very
hard
over
multiple
decades
for
our
community,
whether
it's
for
organizing
events
specifically
for
women
and
women,
identifying
members
of
our
community,
but
also
more
and
more,
for
the
entire
community.
You've
done
so
much
work
in
support
of
everybody.
It's
well
deserved
and
congratulations
Kristen.
Thank
you.
Thank.
J
Thank
you
that
is
such
an
honor.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
to
the
mayor.
All
of
the
city,
councilors,
the
Boston
pride
committee
and
all
of
their
volunteers
in
to
all
of
you.
This
year
seem,
as
was
mentioned,
is
stronger
together
and
for
me
it
is
so
much
more
than
a
saying.
It
is
truly
a
call
to
action
way.
Back
in
1978,
a
young
Gilbert
Baker
received
a
call
to
action
from
Harvey
Milk.
That
said,
come
up
with
one
symbol
to
represent
pride
for
the
gay
community.
J
J
J
Austin
pride
would
not
be
what
it
is
without
the
dedicated
volunteer
leadership
and
I'm
going
to
repeat
the
word
volunteer,
because
it
is
amazing
to
me
the
round-the-clock
volunteerism
that
everybody
in
pride
does
I
do
want
to
recognize
the
one
incredible
person
who
has
given
this
year
20
years,
a
volunteer
service,
often
full-time
for
Boston
pride
and
our
community.
So
as
Grand
Marshall
I'd
like
to
publicly
recognize
and
thank
Linda
DiMarco.
J
J
C
Not
saying
anything,
I
just
want
to
I
want
to
first
of
all
thank
Linda
as
well
for
being
the
face
of
Boston
pride
as
the
start
of
a
volunteer
service
in
1997
and
I'm,
not
going
to
read
the
whole
citation,
but
the
city
of
Boston
has
been
immensely
impacted
to
Denton
thanks
Linda
DeMarcos
intellect
passion,
dedication
to
improving
the
lives
and
well-being
of
others.
Now,
therefore,
I
Mountain
J
Walsh
mayor
the
city
of
Boston,
to
hereby
proclaim
June,
2nd
2017
to
be
Linda
De
Marco
day
in
the
city
of
Austin.
C
K
K
So
we've
actually
come
a
very
long
way.
I
am
very
proud
and
we
did
flag
ratings.
There
was
maybe
20
or
30.
Look
at
all
you
people
here,
20
years
ago
we
had
20
or
30
people.
Look
at
you
you're
all
here
today
and
as
Martha
said,
that
parade
is
going
to
be
record-breaking
because
who
we
are
we're
Boston
strong.
We
have
one
of
the
strongest
leaders
in
this
country,
mayor
Walsh,
and
we
have
a
great
dedication
of
his
staff
in
our
Congress
and
our
city
workers.
Thank
them
as
you
thank
all
of
our
volunteers.