What started as a parking lot tailgate party at Fairhaven Park in 2002 is now a full-scale parade down Railroad Avenue. This year, nearly 100 organizations joined the annual event’s festivities Sunday, July 9 in downtown Bellingham.
Although the event is much larger in scale, what pride represents has stayed the same.
“There are a lot of reasons to have a parade — for celebration, victory or protest in resistance. A pride parade is all those things,” said Michelle Harme
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