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,

The rallies were part of a wave of demonstrations opposing the Trump administration and took place just hours before a planned military parade in Washington.

“No Kings” organizers, including Mass 50501 and the Indivisible Mass Coalition, had encouraged the Boston protesters to join in with the Pride parade, to show “joyous defiance of anti-LGBTQIA+ tyranny of a fascist administration.”