Boston Pride Lights

Keeping the tradition alive, even if not in the park together, we’ll stream the annual lighting of Blackstone Park. As a twist, we’ll light up in Pink Lights the water fountains in BOTH Blackstone and Franklin Sq. Parks. This is done to commemorate all those we’ve lost too soon to AIDS.

The AIDS Crisis of the 1980s and the early 90s is a defining event in the history of the LGBTQ community. In the face of wide-spread devastation, confusion, and fear, queer people banded together in solidarity to care for the sick and to demand the attention and action of the Government. Pride Lights is a celebration of the community’s strength and resilience, rooted in collective resistance, and a recognition of those whom we have lost through the years to HIV/AIDS.

A signature tradition of Boston Pride Week, Pride Lights has new home in the South End at the Blackstone…