Pride Parade mourns loss of longtime leader

Jun 14th, 2009 - Boston

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Weather reports predicted rain for yesterday's annual Pride Parade, but Woody Woodward wouldn't let it.

"Not on her parade, not on her people," her sister, Joanie Woodward, said during an onstage tribute to the legendary activist at the festival held at City Hall Plaza after the parade.

Woodward, known for the trademark rainbow-colored Mohawk she would sport for the parade, died yesterday morning at age 64 of ovarian cancer, only hours before the festivities she loved and often helped lead. Woodward became an iconic figure in Boston's gay community through her years of work for organizations focusing on HIV/AIDS,

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