Drag queen wearing crown and gown holds pridefulness flag.Drag queen Dela Rosa poses pinch her rainbow emblem during nan parade. Throughout nan time astir 15 resistance queens and kings could beryllium recovered mingling and taking selfies. Photographed Saturday, June 29, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)

The Delaney Park Strip was gleaming pinch rainbows and glitter arsenic crowds gathered connected Saturday for nan yearly Anchorage Pride Parade.

Dozens of booths were group up to waste art, apparel and trinkets while others distributed accusation astir queer support services successful and astir nan city. A parade of hundreds circled downtown, pinch group dancing, cheering and waving rainbow flags. Participants walked, danced, drove and rollerbladed their measurement done nan thoroughfare to nosy euphony and monolithic cheers.

Across Alaska, pridefulness period celebrations took spot passim June pinch celebrants gathering successful ample numbers successful communities including Juneau, Homer, Seward and Skagway. Next twelvemonth will people nan 10-year day of nan Supreme Court lawsuit that legalized cheery matrimony successful nan United States.

Here are immoderate of our favourite photos from nan ceremony successful Anchorage:

Two adults wearing rainbow clothing and 1 holding an umbrella grin successful a photo.Daniel Salas-Peterson (left) and Tatum Waalkes (right) afloat committed to dressing for pridefulness this year. Waalkes said, “I’ve been showing disconnected my rainbow pits each day!” Photographed Saturday, June 29, 2024, astatine nan Delaney Park Strip. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
Members of Beth Sholom religion march successful nan pridefulness parade.Members of Congregation Beth Sholom locomotion successful nan Anchorage Pride Parade connected Saturday, June 29, 2024. Other belief groups besides marched including nan First Baptist Church of Anchorage and nan Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
Alaska Rep. Andrew Gray smiles while riding atop a car successful nan pridefulness parade.Alaska Rep.  Andrew Gray, D-Anchorage, made an quality astatine nan Anchorage Pride Parade this year. Other authorities entities included nan agency of Alaska Department of Fish and Game and nan National Parks Service. Photographed Saturday, June 29 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
Miss Alaska Snow Queen Kaleionalani Medici Puu Lavatai dances while wearing a agleam purple dress, a sash and a crown.Miss Alaska Snow Queen Kaleionalani Medici Puu Lavatai dances passim nan parade while celebrating pinch Utopia Alaska, a group for queer and transgender Pacific Islanders successful Anchorage. Saturday, June 29 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
Drag queen Lamina poses pinch 2 women successful rainbow headbands dressed arsenic nan statue of liberty.Queen Lamina poses pinch Nadine Poje (left) and Jaime Sage (right) betwixt performances during nan festival. The show performances included resistance shows, performative storytelling, dancing competitions and philharmonic guests. Photographed Saturday, June 29, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
Organizers from nan Queers for Palestine group clasp a banner pinch nan Palestine flag, nan rainbow emblem and nan words "queers for Palestine."Several activistic groups besides participated successful pridefulness this year. Members of nan Anchorage Queers for Palestine led cheers of “Free, free Palestine” while they marched. Photographed Saturday, June 29, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
A female dressed arsenic nan statue of liberty shouts from atop of a parade float. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska was nan expansive marshal for Anchorage Pride this year. Director of Strategic Development Laura Herman shouted arsenic she moved done nan parade. Saturday, June 29, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)
A female poses successful a crochet sweater.Art and artists were everyplace astatine Anchorage Pride pinch dozens of booths group up to waste and hundreds of items to see. Sable Rose Kuiper showed disconnected their hand-made crochet sweater that sounds “trans joyousness is resistance.” Saturday, June 29, 2024. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)