A Pride celebration runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Cambridge City Hall with a mix of events. The first queer history exhibit in its 36 years of celebration joins live music, face painting, a bounce house and food – an ice cream truck and taco bar – and tabling with community resources.
The free event is put on by the office of mayor E. Denise Simmons, the first openly lesbian Black mayor in the country in her first term in 2008, and the city’s LGBTQ+ Commission at Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square.
Several hundred participants are expected. “It’s an event that really does honor the past, present, and future of the LGBTQ+ community,” city spokesperson Jeremy Warnick said.
June is Pride Month, with public and private events throughout focused on LGBTQ+ issues and celebrations.
The city also has “Loving Day” from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, celebrates the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia that permits interracial marriage in all states. The free Citizens’ Civic Unity Committee event feature cupcakes, music, games, a collaborative mural and, of course, face painting, at Joan Lorentz Park at 441 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge (in front of the Cambridge Main Library).
The park is around a 15-minute walk northwest from City Hall.
“Some of our core values as a city are about celebrating our diversity and self expression, and we’re going to continue to be committed to that,” Warnick said.
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