In the evening the revelers will pour into Boystown clubs and party into the wee hours of the night.
During Chicago Pride Fest the weekend prior, stages of music, exhibitors, great food and drinks will be available to enjoy. The annual parade marks the uprising, outside New York’s landmark Stonewall Inn, which began the Gay Rights Movement. More after the photo - 2019 Chicago Pride Parade, photo by Steven Koch for The energy in the city peaks on Pride Weekend, which traditionally falls on the last weekend of June each year to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. Pride Month in June highlights Chicago's vibrant LGBT community. The parade winds ( map) its way through the north side of the city, ending near the intersection of Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road in Lincoln Park. The 51st annual Chicago Pride Parade marches through the city's Boystown neighborhood with the annual parade steps off at noon on Sunday, June 26, at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood. Pride in the Park in Chicago's Grant Park is Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26. The iconic Chicago Pride Parade is Sunday, June 26, beginning at noon. He held the title through this year's 50th annual Chicago Pride Parade.Ĭhicago Pride Fest, presented by the Northalsted Business Alliance, returns Saturday, June 18 (11 a.m. Pfeiffer watched Chicago's first-ever parade in 1970, was a volunteer marshal at the second, third and fourth parades, and he volunteered to be the coordinator at the fifth parade in 1974. "Under Rich's year-round consistent leadership Chicago's Gay Pride Parade grew from a few hundred participants and observers to thousands of marchers and over a million viewers, reflecting the amazing growth of our communities." "One of our earliest and longest-serving activists, Rich Pfeiffer made history as he gave our community decades of committed, effective service," said Art Johnston, Sidetrack co-owner and co-founder of Equality Illinois. Richard William Pfeiffer, coordinator of the annual Chicago Pride Parade since 1974 and a member of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, died Sunday, October 6, 2019. He was 70. Remembering Richard Pfeiffer - October 6, 2019 The coronavirus pandemic brought all those plans to a halt in 20, but PRIDE IS BACK in 2022. Pride in the Park, an outdoor music festival in Chicago’s historic Grant Park, made its debut in 2019.
in the North Side neighborhood colloquially referred to a ‘Boystown’ the weekend prior to the parade. The Pride festival takes place along North Halsted St.
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Others slated for Sunday included San Francisco and Chicago.Chicago's Pride celebration consists of a full month of festivities and events, culminating with the annual Chicago Pride Parade, which traditionally takes place the last Sunday of June. The New York parade was the first of several planned across the country. “He looked to her and said, ‘Are you ready? Because it’s going to be loud and it’s going to be beautiful.’ It made me so happy,” she said. Today means coming out and supporting gay Americans affected by the attack.”įor 24-year-old Philadelphia native Julia Clark, who was attending a pride march for the first time, she told the NewsHour she was excited but felt the festivities were tinged with sadness.Īs she collected her composure before entering the mass of people gathering around Stonewall, she noticed a man holding a young girl’s hand. “Today means something different to me because of Orlando. He said the last march he attended, two years ago, felt more celebratory than this one. The NYPD displayed several floats and displays in the parade, including a cop car outfitted in rainbow colors.Ĭongrats to #FDNY EMTs Arroyo & Marrero, who just got engaged at #NYCPride March! Read more /fpOsV7fSyqĪnthony Paden, 31, has been coming to the Pride March for over a decade. “We have extraordinary NYPD presence to make sure that this will be not only the biggest, but the safest parade we’ve ever had,” de Blasio said. The city increased security this year, with uniformed and plain clothes police stationed throughout the parade route, supported by helicopter and maritime patrols. Barack Obama declared Stonewall a national monument, the first gay rights site to receive such designation. The march began in midtown near the Empire State Building and snaked its way downtown, past Stonewall Inn, the site of the 1969 riots that marked the start of the LGBTQ rights movement. The group “Gays Against Guns” staged a “die in” during the Pride March in New York on June 26, 2016.