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Jacobs, the longest- serving chief executive officer of the San Diego LGBT Community Center, who was honored at Friday's Spirit of Stonewall Rally with the Champion of Pride award Susan Jester, a longtime LGBTQ activist who was named a Community Grand Marshal at Friday's rally and Russell Roybal, the deputy executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, who was also named a Community Grand Marshal. Helping to lead this year's parade are Delores A. In 2011, San Diego Pride became the first pride parade in the nation to feature a contingent specifically for service members and veterans. The parade will include a motorcycle contingent, a youth marching band made up of high school band members and, for the seventh straight year, a military contingent. Pride celebrations continued Saturday morning with the Pride 5K as crowds began lining University Avenue in Hillcrest in anticipation of the parade. The rally honored the 1969 Stonewall riots that are largely credited with sparking the modern gay-rights movement, when patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn rioted in the face of police harassment. Friday with the official Pride Block Party and the Spirit of Stonewall Rally. The parade caps two days of celebrations and festivities that began at 5 p.m. Annually one of the largest Pride celebrations in the country, this year's parade was expected to draw a crowd of close to 200,000 along its 1.1- mile route starting at the Hillcrest Pride Flag, proceeding west on University Avenue, turning south on Sixth Avenue, left on Balboa Drive and ending at Quince Drive.