Editing Pride parade (section)

==Description==
[[File:Iowa City Pride 2019 (P) (48072397172).jpg|thumb|Pride parade in [[Iowa City, Iowa]]]]
[[File:Pride Parade, El Paso, TX, Montana Street, June 2022 10.jpg|thumb|Pride Parade in [[El Paso, Texas]]]]
Many parades still have at least some of the original political or [[activism|activist]] character, especially in less accepting settings. The variation is largely dependent upon the political, economic, and religious settings of the area. However, in more accepting cities, the parades take on a festive or even [[Mardi Gras]]-like character, whereby the political stage is built on notions of celebration.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ammaturo |first=Francesca Romana |title=Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |editor-last=Chiang |editor-first=Howard |volume=3 |location=Farmington Hills, MI |pages=7 |chapter=Pride parades and marches |editor-last2=Arondekar |editor-first2=Anjali |editor-last3=Epprecht |editor-first3=Marc |editor-last4=Evans |editor-first4=Jennifer |editor-last5=Forman |editor-first5=Ross G. |editor-last6=Al-Samman |editor-first6=Hanadi}}</ref> Large parades often involve floats, dancers, [[drag queen]]s and amplified music; but even such celebratory parades usually include political and educational contingents, such as local politicians and marching groups from LGBT institutions of various kinds.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tandon |first1=Abhinav |last2=Rao |first2=T. S. Sathyanarayana |date=July 2021 |title=Pride Parades |journal=Journal of Psychosexual Health |language=en |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=209–211 |doi=10.1177/26318318211038118 |issn=2631-8318|doi-access=free }}</ref> Other typical parade participants include local LGBT-friendly churches such as [[Metropolitan Community Church]]es, [[United Church of Christ]], and [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian Universalist]] Churches, [[PFLAG]], and LGBT employee associations from large businesses.

Even the most festive parades usually offer some aspect dedicated to remembering victims of [[AIDS]] and anti-LGBT violence. Some particularly important pride parades are funded by governments and [[corporate sponsorship|corporate sponsors]] and promoted as major [[tourist attraction]]s for the cities that host them. In some countries, some pride parades are now also called Pride Festivals. Some of these festivals provide a carnival-like atmosphere in a nearby park or city-provided closed-off street, with information booths, music concerts, barbecues, beer stands, contests, sports, and games. The 'dividing line' between onlookers and those marching in the parade can be hard to establish in some events, however, in cases where the event is received with hostility, such a separation becomes very obvious. There have been studies considering how the relationship between participants and onlookers is affected by the divide, and how space is used to critique the heteronormative nature of society.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Irvine |first1=Janice M. |last2=Irvine |first2=Jill A. |date=2017 |title=The Queer Work of Militarized Prides |journal=Contexts |language=en |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=32–37 |doi=10.1177/1536504217742389 |s2cid=67449127 |issn=1536-5042|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Though the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender people, as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named ''Gay'', the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the 'queer' or LGBT community.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary for Sylvia Rae Rivera|url=http://www.sylviasplace.org/sylvia_obituary.htm|publisher=Sylvia's Place|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928113130/http://www.sylviasplace.org/sylvia_obituary.htm|archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gender.org/remember/people/marshajohnson.html |title=Marsha P. Johnson |publisher=Gender.org |date=July 6, 1992 |access-date=2013-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022184320/http://gender.org/remember/people/marshajohnson.html |archive-date=October 22, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as many of the actual participants had grown older, moved on to other issues, or died, this passage of time led to misunderstandings as to who had actually participated in the Stonewall riots, who had actually organized the subsequent demonstrations, marches and memorials, and who had been members of early activist organizations such as Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance. The language has become more accurate and inclusive, though these changes met with initial resistance from some in their own communities who were unaware of the historical events.<ref>[http://www.nyabn.org/Pages/WhoWeR/OurHistory.html New York Area Bisexual Network: A Brief History of NYC's Bisexual Community]. Nyabn.org (July 12, 2001). Retrieved on 2011-07-10. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230316114936/http://nyabn.org/Pages/WhoWeR/OurHistory.html Archive])</ref> Changing first to ''Lesbian and Gay'', today most are called ''Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender'' (LGBT) or simply "Pride".{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}} Pride parades are held in many [[urban area]]s and in many countries where the [[urbanization]] rate is at least 80%.