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This weekend launches the annual Boston Black Pride festival, a weeklong celebration of QTBIPOC culture and community. Organized by the Boston Lesbigay Urban Foundation, the programming includes events of all kinds, from a pride parade and a music and arts festival to an R&B brunch and a fitness class.
The idea for Boston Black Pride was born during the pandemic.
“A lot of our social engagement spaces were closing down, and there wasn’t a lot of representation of our Black and brown community members in the other LGBTQ spaces that were available,” said Eilakeisha Spencer, deputy executive director of the celebration and co-founder and director of operations at the Boston Lesbigay Urban Foundation. “We wanted to curate something different, and we wanted to bring Black pride here to the city of Boston.”
As the sixth year of the festival, 2025 marks the fifth year it has been hosted in person. Each year the festival has grown. The headlining performance at the music and arts festival in 2024 garnered a crowd of almost 2,000, Spencer said. Festivalgoers came to Boston from New York, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Chicago and California…