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(Elise Amendola/AP)"/></picture><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">Spectators watch om balni along the route of the Gay Pri Para, Saturday, June 8, 2019, Boston. (Elise Amendola/AP)</figptn></figure></sectn><div class="article-sectns"><sectn class="article-sectn--ntent hang-punctuatn article-sectn--first article-sectn--centered"><p class="">Boston Pri, the s-old LGBTQ+ group that aniz the cy's Pri Para, will disband.</p><p class="">The nonprof's Board of Directors <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the cisn a statement posted onle Friday afternoon.</p><p class="nt-medium">"Over the past year, we have vted time and energy to addrs the ncerns of the muny," Boston Pri's board of directors wrote a statement on the webse. "It is clear to that our muny needs and wants change whout the volvement of Boston Pri."</p><p class="">The announcement after years of growg tensn wh other Boston-based LGBTQ+ muny lears and anizatns. In 2015, Black Liv Matter prottors terpted the Boston Pri para to mand more clivy and reprentatn the Pri anizatn. And last year, <a href=">80% of Boston Pri's volunteer workforce</a> rigned after a statement put out by Boston Pri's board received backlash. The board me unr fire for removg key parts of the statement, which was origally wrten by the volunteer workforce. Former volunteers alleged that the board removed "Black Liv Matter," whout nsent om s Black Pri mtee members. Workers also ced allegatns of racism and transphobia as reasons they rigned.</p><p class="">Former Boston Pri volunteers went on to form their own anizatns, cludg Pri 4 The People (formerly Boston Pri 4 The People) and Boston Black Pri. In Augt 2020, <a href=">Boston Pri sent letters</a> to anizers of Pri 4 The People and Boston Black Pri, askg that they stop g "Boston Pri" their nam.</p><p class="">In Dec. 2020, Pri 4 The People, Trans Ristance, Boston Black Pri and other LGBTQ+ anizatns <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lled for a boytt of Boston Pri</a> and the Boston Pri Para until<a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> muny mands were met</a>. One of those mands was the rignatn of the current Boston Pri board and the elimatn of bylaws that former volunteers said gave the board unfair and unmocratic ntrol of the anizatn. To date, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26 LGBTQ+ anizatns</a> have joed the boytt.</p><p class="">In rponse, Boston Pri's board released a statement reeratg the anizatn's ditn to hearg muny lears and to transformg s ternal stcture. While the board did not rign, hired diversy nsultg firm Dorrgton & Snrs and created a transformatn advisory mtee to assist wh chang to the anizatn.</p><p class="">This June, Lda DeMar announced her plans to rign om her posn as the board print of Boston Pri by the end of the summer. In an <a href=">terview</a> wh The Boston Globe, DeMar stated that her rignatn was "a ltle accelerated now bee I thk the boytt is really hurtg the muny." The send Trans Ristance March and Vigil, anized by groups boyttg Boston Pri, happened the same week.</p><p class="">In announcg s dissolutn, Boston Pri's board revealed that there will be no "further events or programmg planned, and the board is takg steps to close down the anizatn."</p><hr/><p class=""><i data-strgify-type="alic">CORRECTION: A prev versn of this story misstated the planned events for Boston Pri's 50th anniversary celebratn. The event did not clu a para. 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(Greg Cook)" style="object-posn:50% 0"/></picture><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure></sectn><div class="article-sectns"><sectn class="article-sectn--ntent hang-punctuatn article-sectn--first article-sectn--centered"><p class="nt-medium">“We’re gog to leave this park soon to show this cy our queer bt,” emcee Alicia Vida Ortiz said om a stage at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common last night as she readied the hundreds gathered for the 20th annual <a href=">Boston Dyke March</a>. “This march is polil. This march is fun. It n help you meet hotti. … Social jtice is sexy.”</p><p class="">The Dyke March is the more radilly activist, more punk of Boston’s gay <a href=">Pri Para</a>, which begs at the rner of Boylston and Clarendon streets at noon Saturday as part of the cy’s 45th annual Pri week events om June 5 to 14 this year.</p><p class="nt-medium">“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re fabulo, don’t f**k wh ,” Dyke Marchers chanted as the lumn of people followed around the edg of the park, went wt along Commonwealth Avenue, then back east along Boylston Street to the Common for a rock ncert. “Hey, hey, ho, ho, homophobia has got to go!”</p><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt="The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><p class="nt-medium">“The Dyke March is pletely grass roots, ’s nonmercial, and ’s radil,” says Jo Trigil, who has been helpg anize the event each year sce 2000. “We’re terted tersectns. We’re not a sgle issue march.” Sexism, racism, classism, homophobia. “We jt are about the tersectns of opprsn.”</p><p class="nt-medium">“I thk we foc more on polics. It’s a march, ’s not a para,” Trigil says. “It’s not that this isn’t a celebratn, but we’re always foced on polil aspects.”</p><p class="nt-medium">“The Boston Dyke March is for everyone,” the group’s webse proclaims. “Lbians, dyk, queers, bi-women, boychicks, tomboys, grrrls, lbian moms, lbianas, femm, butch, trans women, androgs, trans men, gay girls, bois, womanists, fat dyk, sorory girls wh pearls who are sleepg together, dyk on bik, lbian cron, Ain Amerin lbians, ral dyk, godss, genrqueers, poly girls, amazons, hippy chicks, lipstick lbians, Asian dyk, lbian avengers, dyk wheelchairs, wise old lbians, leather dyk, babydyk ... and you.”</p><p class="">And men. “We’re all genr clive sce 2000,” Trigil says. “Instead of tryg to figure out who n e, we wele everyone. Bee ’s a polic. Anyone who’s terted social jtice is wele to e.”</p><p class=""><em>Greg Cook is -founr of WBUR's ARTery. Follow him on Twter <a href=">@AtheticRear</a> or on the <a href=">Facebook</a>.</em></p><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""I kiss girls!" The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"I kiss girls!" The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt="The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""Jt love." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"Jt love." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""My body, my choice." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"My body, my choice." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""I like dyke." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"I like dyke." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""Proud of my fore-butch." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"Proud of my fore-butch." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""I got 99 problems." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"I got 99 problems." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""Jtice." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"Jtice." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""Gay." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"Gay." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt="The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt=""CIS-Dyk for trans-cln." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">"CIS-Dyk for trans-cln." The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt="The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt="The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">The 2015 Boston Dyke March. (Greg Cook)</figptn></figure></sectn></div><sectn class="article-sectn--story-group article-sectn--centered Tags_article-sectn--tags__NOKiB"><a data-ec="Article Tags" data-el="Experienc" data-ea="Click" class="article-tag" href="/news/tag/experienc">Experienc</a></sectn></article><sectn class="article-sectn--story-group article-sectn--centered"><div class="ntributor has-photo"><div class="ntributor-profile"><figure class="ntributor-profile-em ntributor-photo"><a href="/si/staff/greg-ok"><picture><img src=" class="lazy rd-image" alt=""/></picture></a></figure><p class="ntributor-profile-em ntributor-b"><a class="ntributor-name" href="/si/staff/greg-ok">Greg Cook</a> <span class="ntributor-tle">Arts Reporter</span><br/>Greg Cook was an arts reporter and cric for WBUR's The ARTery.</p><p class="ntributor-more"><a class="ntributor-lk ntributor-b-lk" href="/si/staff/greg-ok">More…</a></p></div></div></sectn><sectn class="sectn--bo sectn--bp"><div class="uw bp--rponsive"><div class="bp-ner"><p class="bp-label">Advertisement</p><div class="bp-ntent bp-ntent--centered"><div style="width:300px;height:50px"></div></div></div></div></sectn><div></div><div class="global-d-ponents onmand--is-playg"><div class="global-player"><d preload="to"></d><div class="global-player-bar"><div class="global-player-bar-left"><button class="global-player-bar-ntrol"><i class="in-play in-play--global-player-bar in-play--psed"><span class="in-play-shape"><span class="in-label" data-note="for-screen-rears">Rume</span></span></i></button><div class="global-player-label global-player-label--live"><div class="global-player-channel"><span>Listen Live</span></div><div class="global-player-tle"><a class="global-player-label-lk" href="/">Loadg...</a></div></div></div><div class="global-player-bar-right"><div class="global-player-x"><svg class="in in-close" viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-labelledby="tle"><tle id="tle">Close .