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Rainbow flags decorate Lake View East in anticipation of the Chicago Pride Parade. A Human Rights Campaign float moves past spectators. The Chicago Pride Parade, also colloquially (and formerly) called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is an annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Chicago, Illinois in the United States.
The largest ever pride march in the region was held in 2022 when over 120,000 people marched in Taiwan to support equal rights. [49] The first pride march in South Asia was held on July 2, 1999, in the city of Kolkata in India. [50] Central Asia's first pride march was held on May 8, 2019, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. [51]
The following is a calendar of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) events. This list includes gay pride parades as well as events ranging from sporting events to film festivals, including celebrations such as Christopher Street Day.
The Chicago Pride Parade is back after a 3-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic and is the highlight of a month of events planned to honor and celebrate Chicago’s lesbian, gay, bisexual ...
The São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in Brazil is South America's largest event, and was listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest Pride parade in 2006 with 2.5 million people. [10] It broke the Guinness record in 2009 with four million attendees, [ 11 ] with similar numbers to at least 2016, [ 12 ] and up to five million attending in ...
On Saturday, June 27, 1970, Chicago Gay Liberation organized a march [34] from Washington Square Park ("Bughouse Square") to the Water Tower at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago avenues, which was the route originally planned, and then many of the participants extemporaneously marched on to the Civic Center (now Richard J. Daley) Plaza. [35]
A few years later, Chicago honored the victims of AIDS through "The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt", which can be found in Navy Pier. In June 2021, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the AIDS Garden Chicago; the park officially opened on June 2, 2022. LGBT newspaper Windy City Times published its first issue on September 26, 1985 in Chicago.
But with the 2022 version back on, the event is bringing with it fresh concerns, namely security fears surrounding anti-LGBTQ sentiment and having such a large crowd in a city that has recently ...