CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Under a cloudless sky in Cleveland, more than 25,000 members and supporters of the LGBTQ+ community filled downtown streets Saturday for the annual Pride in the CLE march and festival.

The celebration carried special significance this year as it commemorated the 50th anniversary of the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, one of the nation’s oldest LGBTQ+ centers.

“It’s about honoring the legacy that we are a movement,” Gulnar Feerasta, managing director of the LGBTQ Center of Greater Cleveland said Saturday. The center organizes the event. “This is not a moment. It’s honoring the legacy of how pride began as a protest.”

The day began at Public Square with the colorful march, where people dressed in rainbow colors carried signs with mottos like, “It was never about bathr

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