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Pride marches through Baltimore: A photo essay

Scenes from the city’s annual SGL and LGBTQ celebration

Above: Exuberance reigned at yesterday’s Pride Parade. (Louis Krauss)

There was drumming and dancing. Politics and puppets. Sturdy Birkenstock sandals and precarious platform heels.

Charles Street was bursting with sassy spectacle yesterday, as participants in the 2017 Baltimore Pride Festival strutted their stuff for the centerpiece of the weekend, the Pride Parade.

The 2017 theme for this annual celebration of Maryland’s SGL (same-gender loving) and LGBTQ communities was “Pride Unleashed.”

With events planned this year in the Old Goucher/Charles North neighborhood, the parade stretched from the Madison Street intersection to a judging stand at North Avenue.

We watched them, after a long march on a hot day, turn literal cartwheels in some cases at the end and captured some images of the day.

(All photos by Louis Krauss) 

Pride puppets. (Louis Krauss)

Pride puppets.

In front of the judging stand, performers gave it their all. (Louis Krauss)

In front of the judging stand, performers gave it their all.

Bnice, Baltimore! (Louis Krauss)

Bnice, Baltimore!

Much loved: the PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) contingent. (Louis Krauss)

Much loved: the PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) contingent.

Signs of the times. (Louis Krauss)

Signs of the times.

The Baltimore Flamingos Rugby Club scrumming it up. (Louis Krauss)

The Baltimore Flamingos Rugby Club scrumming it up.

Amplified. (Louis Krauss)

Amplified!

This vendor's take on the Pride Parade: thumbs-up. (Louis Krauss)

This vendor’s take on the Pride Parade: thumbs-up.

XXX. (Louis Krauss)

Parade judges and a sign with priorities: 1) Equality, 2) Be fabulous, 3) Brunch.

Atlantic States Leather. (Louis Krauss)

Atlantic States Leather.

“Everyone Deserves to Sparkle.”

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