PHOTOS: Pikes Peak Pride Parade 2024

A large pride flag is carried down Tejon St. by members of the LBGTQ+ community and their friends and supporters during the Pikes Peak Pride Parade in downtown Colorado Springs on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Jerilee Bennett The Gazette)

It was a message of love that Aspen the dog carried at the Pikes Peak Pride Parade. The LBGTQ+ community and their friends and supporters packed the streets of downtown Colorado Springs for the parade and three-day Pride Fest in downtown Colorado Springs on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ and supporting friends and family marched participated in and watched the Pikes Peak Pride Parade on Sunday, June 9, 2024.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ and supporting friends and family marched participate in the Pikes Peak Pride parade in June. (Jerilee Bennett, the Gazette)

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ and supporting friends and family marched participated in and watched the Pikes Peak Pride Parade on Sunday, June 9, 2024.

Sierra Coy holds up a supportive sign for those in the pride parade in downtown Colorado Springs. The LBGTQ+ community and their friends and supporters attended the annual Pikes Peak Pride Parade in downtown Colorado Springs on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Jerilee Bennett The Gazette)

Calvary United Methodist Church carries a banner down the street at the Pikes Peak Pride Parade. A number of churches showed up to support the LBGTQ+ community in the parade on Sunday, June 9, 2024.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ and supporting friends and family marched participated in and watched the Pikes Peak Pride Parade on Sunday, June 9, 2024.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ and supporting friends and family marched participated in and watched the Pikes Peak Pride Parade in June 2024. (jerilee bennett, gazette file)