Seattle's Pride festival brings together people of all ages, some who understand well the struggles of many LGBT Americans and others who will grow up in a much different world after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to allow nationwide same-sex marriage.
To 4-year-old Cassis Kroll, the celebration really is just fun and games.
"(She's) way too young to understand," said Kevin Kroll, her dad, "We haven't gone into any of the real detailed motivations for the parade; it's really about rainbows and having fun and getting dressed up."
She doesn't get that some people here have seen so much change.
"Pride used to be more of a march and we still have a political activism stance to a certain degree, but it's about family now," said David Haack, who has been coming to Pride events in Seattle for 24 years.
That's a big change for people of a certain age who weren't sure they'd live to see a day when marriage equality became the law of the land.
"Whoever thought it was going to be like this?" asked Hugh Charest, who attended his first Seattle Pride event in 1986.
He knows many of the young people at Pride won't ever fully grasp what it took to get where they are today.
"We don't expect any of them to, I don't expect them to understand what it was like, unless you lived through it you can't understand it," he said.
"These kids are never going to grow up with that feeling that anybody who is LGBT identified can't build a family the same way as anybody else can," said Haack.
