This wasn’t political pot stirring, or an orchestrated political confrontation between the left and the right, the group insisted. Orchestrated by a group called Super Happy Fun America, the straight pride parade was touted as a playful exercise in free speech and came with all the trappings: far-right rhetoric blasted from megaphones, white nationalist paraphernalia, and signs celebrating Trump’s border wall. It ended with a confrontation between attendees and counter-protesters and law enforcement armed with batons and pepper spray. Purportedly intended as parody of an LGBTQ Pride Parade, the march featured Pepe the Frog cosplayers, members of the far-right street gang the Proud Boys, and alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos as grand marshal riding atop a Trump 2020 float. On Saturday afternoon, a collection of self-described free speech advocates brought the own-the-libs internet into the real world, marching through historic Boston. BOSTON, Massachusetts - This city was never going to be ready for the straight pride parade.
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