Boston’s “No Kings” demonstration coincided with the city’s annual Pride parade and festival. Instead of a designated separate protest in Boston, organizers asked demonstrators to gather alongside the Pride parade route to support,

They showed up to honor the US Army. Some were dressed head-to-toe in Trump merch to support the man they’d voted for. Others came to protest what they saw as too much spectacle and expense (reportedly as much as $45 million) for a military parade that just happened to be on the president’s 79th birthday.

A large military parade showcasing American power, requested by President Donald Trump to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary, took place in Washington, D.C., featuring tanks, troops and marching bands.

As President Donald Trump holds a military parade in Washington, D.C. today to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday, Boston is holding a very different kind of celebration. Alongside Saturday’s Boston Pride for the People Parade,

On the first weekend: a vision of the nation built upon inclusivity and the tenets of liberalism — a conception of country that incorporates generations of fights for equity, for compassion, for expanding what it means to be an American.