Amherst Pride Parade: Sunburned and Singing
June 22, 2025. Amherst Pride Parade Forty or so booths melting slightly propped up with duct tape and hope. The Town’s Twitter account had warned of a Level 3 heat emergency, but no one was staying home. Pride had never happened here before. I thought of the Parasol’s organization—technically volunteers but really shields. They first showed up at the library when a queer man read a children’s…














