Police are gearing up for potential conflict between straight demonstrators and counter-protesters.
Police cordoned off the area Saturday morning, and deployed uniformed and undercover officers along the route.
It continued, saying that Saturday's march is to"spread awareness of issues impacting straights," describing heterosexuals as"an oppressed majority" in Massachusetts, the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. "There are no racists in our group. You have to come to one of our meetings: it's like the United Nations," the group's president John HugoConservative speaker and one one the organizers for the Boston Straight Pride Parade, Samson Racioppi speaks to people attending the"Defend the Constitution Rally" at Lexington Depot Square in Lexington, Massachusetts, on August 8, 2019.
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