“We don’t hate anyone, we just want to have our own celebration just like everybody else has a right to. “I agree it is unusual to have something like this, but a lot of things seem unpopular at first but then they become mainstream,” John Hugo, the president of Super Happy Fun America, said at the news conference. The parade organizers - a group called Super Happy Fun America, whose slogan is “it’s great to be straight” - celebrated on Wednesday at a news conference, where they denied that their event was anti-gay or intended to mock L.G.B.T. But the police said there appeared to be no major hurdle for the event. Boston on Wednesday approved a public event application and parade route for a Straight Pride Parade, whose organizers plan to celebrate what they view as America’s “oppressed majority” - heterosexuals.Ī city official said the application was a major step toward an official parade permit, which also requires the consent of the Boston Police Department.
