Acknowledging complaints that the Parade had become too apolitical, its name was officially changed to “March”.

A couple of days before the March, it seemed that the media, especially the Boston Globe, was fixated on the controversies of the prior year. The Boston Police warned that no inappropriate behavior would be tolerated and that women going topless would be arrested, even though attorney Don Gorton point out in a column that Boston had no law against toplessness.

If that wasn’t enough, police warned gay men that a serial killer named Andrew Cunanan may be hiding out in Boston, though there was no reason to believe he was in the city at this time. A record crowd estimated at 200,000 came, some out of curiosity about what they might see.

The History Project’s exhibit “Public Faces/Private Lives” was mounted at the Boston Center for the Arts. The Boston Globe described it as “a 375 year time line that juxtaposes a culture of same-sex affection and sex against the forces of disapproval”.

Dyke March attendance surpassed 400.^[1]