CINCINNATI — Organizers expect big crowds and authorities plan tight security for Cincinnati’s parade and festival events celebrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.

Organizers expected attendance to top last year’s estimated 90,000 people at the Cincinnati Pride parade on Saturday. They say the slayings this month at an Orlando gay nightclub have raised interest in participation.

“This year we march, once again, to show that we will not give in to hate,” Cincinnati Pride copresidents Shawn Baker and Brooklyn Steele-Tate said in a statement. “Our community always has been and always will be about love and acceptance. We will march with pride toward progress. We will never let hate or fear win.”

The celebration will occur amid the same kind of increased security put in place last weekend at gay pride events in more than a half dozen cities, including Chicago, Denver and New Orleans.

Gay organizations in San Francisco and New York plan to hold their gay pride parades — traditionally among the biggest in the U.S. — on Sunday.

Cincinnati officials have made public assurances that they are ready to keep the parade and festival safe.