Mateo Rojas, 27, who lives in Allston and participated in a boycott of Boston Pride last year due to the controversy, said the absence of the parade “made a lot more space for other groups to come forward, like the Dyke March and Trans Resistance,” which is holding its third annual march to Franklin Park on June 25. Instead, this year’s Pride celebrations across the region are decentralized and driven by the community’s grass roots - which some members say is entirely appropriate. “It wasn’t enough time for people to get together, create a 501(c)(3), and plan an event of that scale,” Trigilio said. “I originally pulled permits for a parade, but then decided that we couldn’t do it,” said Jo Trigilio, cofounder of Pride for the People, one of more than a dozen organizations that came together after Boston Pride folded.
After Boston Pride fell apart, a coalition of local LGBTQ+ groups attempted to step in, but participants in those discussions said they didn’t have time to build a new organization and new parade from scratch.
