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You can watch 3 of the nation’s largest Pride parades on live TV this Sunday

American flag with stars and gay pride rainbow stripes being waved at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Greenwich Village, NYC
American flag with stars and gay pride rainbow stripes being waved at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Greenwich Village, NYC Photo: Shutterstock

This Sunday, three of the biggest Pride parades in the country go live like it’s Thanksgiving in June.

San Francisco, New York, and Chicago will broadcast their massive marches on screen via ABC and Hulu for “Pride Across America,” with coverage from ABC News Live featuring the network’s Good Morning America anchors and a host of celebrities, including gay actor Neil Patrick Harris and Somebody Somewhere’s drag king comedian Murray Hill.

Hill joins out gay, part-time GMA anchor and full-time heartthrob Gio Benitez in New York, as well as co-anchor Eva Pilgrim and gay ABC News contributor LZ Granderson.

LGBTQ Pride parade
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The country’s biggest march, the New York march, kicks off at noon Eastern Standard Time under the banner “Strength in Solidarity.” The parade will march south along 5th Avenue from Union Square, before heading west — past the Stonewall National Monument on Christopher Street — and then north to the New York City AIDS Memorial before finishing in Chelsea.

The march’s grand marshals will be gay actor Billy Porter, asexual and aromantic model Yasmin Benoit,  transgender non-binary sports advocate AC Dumlao, transgender author Hope Giselle, as well as Stonewall veteran and queer historian Randolfe “Randy” Wicker.

LGBTQ Pride parade
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In Chicago, the Windy City’s 52nd annual Pride Parade steps off at noon Central Standard Time from Montrose and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood. The parade treks through the north side of the city, wrapping in Lincoln Park. As of Tuesday, the Grand Marshal for the Second City’s march is still under wraps. The march will be covered live by GMA‘s Alex Perez and Ginger Zee.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA JUNE 24, 2018: California State Senator Scott Weiner waves to the crowd at the 2018 San Francisco Pride Parade
David Tran / Shutterstock.com SAN FRANCISCO, CA JUNE 24, 2018: California State Senator Scott Wiener waves to the crowd at the 2018 San Francisco Pride Parade

In San Francisco, the theme for this year’s Pride celebration is “Looking Back and Moving Forward.” The celebration’s three-hour march will start on the city’s Embarcadero at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time and move up Market Street to Civic Center Plaza.

The 2023 Community Grand Marshals leading over 200 contingents will include HIV/AIDS activist Paul Aguilar, LGBTQ+ youth advocate Laura Lala-Chavez, a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour, and the gender non-conforming trans co-owner of the legendary Stud Bar, Honey Mahogany.

The event will be anchored live from Market Street by ABC’s Christiane Cordero and Devin Dwyer.

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