Participants in the Pride London parade march in celebration of the LGBT community in London. Photo / AP
Organizers read the names of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting and held a moment of silence Saturday during Cincinnati's parade and festival events celebrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.
The celebration took place amid the same kind of increased security put in place last weekend at gay pride
events in more than a half dozen cities, including Chicago, Denver and New Orleans.
Gay organizations in San Francisco and New York plan to hold their gay pride parades " traditionally among the biggest in the U.S. " on Sunday.
Organizers in Cincinnati expected attendance to top last year's estimated 90,000 people. They said the slayings this month in Orlando raised interest in participation.
"This year we march, once again, to show that we will not give in to hate," Cincinnati Pride co-presidents Shawn Baker and Brooklyn Steele-Tate said in a statement. "Our community always has been and always will be about love and acceptance. We will march with pride toward progress. We will never let hate or fear win."
