Approximately 5,500 people attended the inaugural Pride In The Park at Grant Park, an entertainment facility at Grant Park in downtown Chicago, on June 14, 2019.
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Fifteen minutes later, an intense deluge ended the parade prematurely. Is There Going To Be A Pride In Chicago In 2021, Pride in the Park will take place June 26 thro giving visitors twice as much fun. The rain gods decided to come out to join the fun, rapidly advancing a stern cloud front upon the celebrations, a strange gray ribbon at its vanguard. The result is colorful, voyeuristic, and somewhat unsettled. Sunday, JThousands descended on Chicago's Uptown and Lakeview neighborhoods Sunday, June 30 for the 50th annual Chicago Pride Parade, a culmination of the city's Pride Month. I tried to crop out most of the branding to capture a experience of the diverse characters on the floats, and the real sentiments on logo-less signs. Monday DecemDuring most years, the slew of LGBTQ+ events held during Pride Month culiminates on the last weekend in June with the Chicago Pride Parade, which snakes its way joyously. We set up camp in some bushes near the confluence of Broadway and Sheridan in Buena Park, and I brought out the camera. After narrowly missing the promenade of this year’s Grand Marshal, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot-our newly elected black lesbian leader. Tom Tunney (44th), Chicago’s first openly gay aldermen, has acknowledged homelessness remains a major problem among gay youth. I don’t usually relish the crowds and corporate pinkwashing that characterize the modern Pride Parade (next year, it’s the Dyke March or nothing) this year, however, I felt compelled to attend-partly because my husband and I relocated to Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood at the end of last year, and now live only blocks from the parade route and in part because it’s the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.Ĭrowds and logos did abound, and the weather was increasingly ominous.
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June has come and gone, and this year’s extra special pride month has passed.