JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The organizer of Jackson’s LGBT pride parade says authorities thought it might be rowdy, but it was, in her words, “much love.”
Temica Morton says she’s wanted to hold such a parade for three years, and was glad to see it happen, in spite of a misunderstanding with police.
It took several blocks for parade marchers to organize into a solid group.
A few hundred people watched.
WJTV-TV reports that at the end of the route, some marchers got into a shouting match with protesters who used loudspeakers and signs to accuse them of sin.
