The Indigo's Pride Parade and festival.
It's the 4th largest pride event
in the entire nation, and today we
have to say it was no exaggeration.
Absolutely not a projected 300,000
people turned out. Look at that.
All the colors and they were cheering
everybody on his groups made their way
through the Hillcrest neighborhood.
Today's parade route was a mile
and a half long starting at a huge
pride flag on University Ave in
normal St and it ended at Balboa
Park. CBS 8 Heather Hope walked the
route along with our CSA team and
recaps all the excitement. From today.
The long-awaited Pride parade
rolled through Hillcrest
with so much excitement,
music and yes indeed pride,
and it also had a lot of familiar faces.
Stephen Kirsten.
The crowds were pumped waving
rainbow flags and cheering.
The Pride parade roared off with motorcycles
to start a crowd favorite.
Each branch of military was well represented.
I was really excited to
see the Marine Corps here.
All the the military service
was pretty cool watching
each parade group go by.
It got emotional for San Diego Pride
executive director Fernando Lopez.
They find family they find
home for the first time and we
haven't had that for three years.
And it's just so beautiful to see everybody
back together for the first time.
This year's Pride theme is justice.
With Joy Unity finally finally,
after being enclosed in the
zoom world, it was
a parade of politicians as
local leaders took center stage
challenges and tough things.
But you know, we still got each other
and that's what's wonderful to see.
Mayor Todd Gloria had California attorney
General Rob Bonta walk with him. Human
rights, civil rights,
and San Diego is embracing the
beautiful diversity of this city.
CBS Eight got an early start with the
team aboard a trolley and other set-up
under a tent of TV cameras set to
stream the entire parade on cbs8.com.
With Marcella Lee and Jesse
Pagan announcing each float,
I got a chance to appear on the
live stream to talk pride fashion.
Many more of the CBS 8 News
team walked the parade.
Let's go looking for you.
the United Low Rider coalition
cruised by with security set-up
on rooftops. Attendees felt safe,
though there were protesters.
Peace and pride got a cut on balance.
This a group of men holding homophobic
signs shouted at parade participants.
Some San Diegans stood in front
of the opposing group to spread
a message of love and love and
everyone should be respected.
Heather Hope CBS 8.
And as Heather said, we were out
there showing our pride today.
In fact, here's a picture of the CSA team.
Check out how many people we had out
there in front of this awesome trolley
in full effect. And I guarantee you that
was just everybody we could corral for that
picture because it was so much going on,
but you could see we were all
there having a big grand time.
Here's some more that we've
had sent in from a viewer.
Lynn Bolton. Thank you so much,
Lynn, for sending in these pictures.
We were so busy it was hard to
capture all of these pictures,
but it was such an amazing time.
A lot of colorful outfits.
Out there people having a good time.
And I'll tell you it was packed.
I mean the entire parade
route was packed with people.
It was so awesome.
This was my first year for San Diego Pride.
I'm a big pride fan.
Annie City I live in. I go to pride,
but I gotta tell you, San Diego.
Y'all showed out today.
Yeah, and we want you to show us your pride.
All you gotta do is download the
CBS 8 app and upload your pride
photos under the Near Me section.
You know what we're going to do, right?
We're going to show them right here on air,
so send those pictures our way
and we can highlight them on TV.
We want to see him by the way.
If you missed the Pride parade,
or maybe you were at the parade
and now you're like, hey I,
I wanna see the whole thing.
Don't worry, we've got you covered.
CBS 8 Live stream the parade and you
can rewatch it in full tomorrow morning
at 10:00 AM on the CBS 8 Plus app.
It's available free on Roku
and on Amazon Fire.