Boston filled with crowds Saturday for the annual Pride parade. But this year's event felt different to some, with a "No Kings" protest against President Trump folded in.

Saturday's Pride parade and festival in Boston came as protests were held across the nation against the Trump administration's policies.

“No Kings” organizers, including Mass 50501 and the Indivisible Mass Coalition, had encouraged the Boston protesters to join in with the Pride parade, to show “joyous defiance of anti-LGBTQIA+ tyranny of a fascist administration.”

Boston merges its Pride parade with "No Kings" protests in a celebration of defiance against Trump administration policies on a day marking Trump's birthday.

Protest music is "energizing when it’s blasted on a loudspeaker. But more important, it is meant to be sung," writes one reader. Another: "Protest songs today are not dominating 'the charts,' but perhaps the charts are not the place to look.