Brad Foulk and Russ Chase sat on a ledge on the sidelines of Sunday's Phoenix Pride Parade, their umbrella hats shading them from the sun as they cheered on thousands of participants.

It was the latest of at least six Pride parades the longtime partners said they'd attended to show support for their LGBT peers.

"We're both gay, and we've been together for 10 years, and this allows us to get together as a community without hatred and bias," Chase said.

"I don't want to go into the dark shadows I went through in the '70s and late '60s where you had to lie," Foulk added.

Not everyone felt embraced at Pride, however: Trans Queer Pueblo, an LGBT migrant-rights organization, protested at the parade for the second year in a row. The organization and its allies last year called out Phoenix Pride for what it identified as exclusion of and injustice against undocumented LGBTQ migrants of color, coining the slogan, "No justice, no pride." Read more via Arizona Republic