Organizers expect attendance to top last year's estimated 90,000 people when the Cincinnati Pride parade steps off at about 11 a.m. Saturday. Organizers expect big crowds and authorities plan tight security for Cincinnati's parade and festival events celebrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. "I would just ask the pride participants to have a great day and really pretty much just ignore them." "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. 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.

Source: ABC News June 25, 2016 04:36 UTC