{"id":213394,"date":"2026-06-08T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:05:08","slug":"pittsburgh-pride-thousands-march-from-downtown-to-north-shore-in-53rd-annual-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213394\/","title":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH PRIDE: Thousands march from Downtown to North Shore in 53rd-annual parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Thousands of people showed up Downtown and on the North Side Sunday for the 53rd-annual Pittsburgh Pride Parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Local organizations, businesses and groups marched under this year\u2019s theme \u201cExistence is Resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">One of those groups was the Pittsburgh Pride Color Guard, which has performed in the parade for several years. One member told Channel 11 about how exciting the parade can be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI love to hear how the crowd gets involved as we come forward,\u201d Larry Gubash said, \u201cespecially when we do a simple toss or exchange or anything there. The audience loves it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The parade ended at Allegheny Commons Park West, the site of this year\u2019s Pride Festival. Crowds showed up in droves after day one of the festival was cut short by the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Thousands of people showed up Downtown and on the North Side Sunday for the 53rd-annual Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69310,6554,73,75,74,72785,93438,91281,17549,92167,74839],"class_list":["post-213394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-lgbt","tag-parade","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pride","tag-pittsburgh-pride-festival","tag-pittsburgh-pride-parade","tag-pride","tag-pride-festival","tag-pride-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}