Loud and proud at Rochester Pride Parade & Festival 2024: See the photos (2024)

Rochester Pride Parade took a new route this year. A short march down South Avenue from Science Parkway to Highland Park.

A group of residents and a staff member from Legacy at Clover Blossom carry signs and march in the Rochester Pride Parade.

Sam Brett, also known as Samantha Vega was the Pride Grand Marshal.

People were sending bubbles in the air throughout the parade.

Over one hundred groups marched in the Rochester Pride Parade.

A group danced while waiting for movement in the parade line.

Cydny Miller dances with a flag draped over her shoulder as groups march by.

Carol Lundquist opens her arms to hug someone in the parade she knows. She was going to march with a group that were wearing Free Mom Hugs shirts.

Lorna Riley waves her flag as marchers head to Highland Park, the end of the parade and where the festival was held.

Ito Shu looks north to see what other parade group is heading towards him.

Cherrry Almedino waves as floats go by her.

Anna Crew-Sis, Miss Gay Pride Rochester 2024, performs a song on stage in Highland Park during the Rochester PrideFestival.

Marvin Krieger of Irondequoit puts the finishing touches on the float for the Rainbow Seniors group before the start of the Rochester Pride Parade.

Krystal Jones plays hide and seek with her nephew, Easton Allen, before the start of the Rochester Pride Parade.

Honorary Marshal Javannah Davis heads towards the line up for participants in the Rochester Pride Parade.

Molly Erler-Perry, pushing her father-in-law, Arnie Erler, turns as people take photos of them during the Rochester Pride Parade. Arnie Erler held a sign, "Straight but not narrow." They were marching with Legacy at Clover Blossom.

Monroe County librarians march in the Rochester Pride Parade.

Highland Park starts to fill up as the parade ends at the entrance to the park.

A group from Black Girls Do Bike ride their bikes in the Rochester Pride Parade, one rider gets the crowd fired up by yelling, "Happy pride."

Gates Chili Independent Winterguard performs for the crowd.

A group reacts to a member of the Gates Chili Independent Winterguard throwing and catching his wooden rifle during the Rochester Pride Parade.

People head to Science Parkway the start of the pride parade.

Maxxamillion Pleazures, Mr. Gay Pride Rochester 2024, performs on stage in Highland Park during the Rochester Pride Festival.

A group of people on the sidewalk cheer at a group marching north on South Avenue.

People react with waves and yells of, ÒHappy Pride,Ó to marching groups in the Rochester Pride Parade.

Jack Mandiak of Macedon ,carrying a flag, waits with Liberty Resources Behavioral Health of Rochester for the start of the Rochester Pride Parade.

Jennifer Belcher and her daughter, Malaya, 4, wave at a fire truck going by in the Rochester Gay Pride Parade

People start looking for a good spot to watch the parade as others head to Science Parkway to join the group they will march with.

A large contingency of University of Rochester employees from both the hospital side and university march in the pride parade.

Rochester Pride Parade heads north on South Avenue towards Highland Park.

A float from Trillium Health heads towards Highland Park site of the festival and end of the parade.

Emily Dyson is dressed stunningly for the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival on South Avenue July 20, 2024.

There were plenty of messages conveyed at the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival.

Jahmir Simmons, who came out seven years ago, was the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival on July 20, 2024. "I'm living my best life."

Malachi Wonderland marks his first Rochester Pride Parade as an out trans man by scrawling the message "You are loved" in chalk on a sidewalk.

Cheryl Hayward and Ebony Burgess came out with Monroe County’s Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the third year to celebrate inclusivity.

Watching from the grassy sidelines with a Pride hat-topper and flag was Paul Mier, who came to support family-members.

Three young attendees — Ellyce Tonovitz, Leila Faber and Liza DeLooze — came to Pride to have a great time, hang out with friends and take in the “positive energy.”

There were plenty of messages conveyed at the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival.

Attendees cheer headliner Nina Sky at the Rochester Pride Parade and Festival on July 20, 2024

Performers show off their blinged-up space-themed costumes in a drag show hosted by Tayler Mayde at the 2024 Rochester Pride Festival in Highland Park.

In the ballroom tent, contestants strutted and posed to enthusiastic cheers from audience members, whose eyes stayed glued on the mesmerizing performers.