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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.
Urbana was the first city in Illinois to pass a gay rights ordinance in 1977. [16] In 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library was opened. This was also the first year the Chicago Pride Parade was officially recognized by the mayor's office. [11] LGBT newspaper Windy City Times published its first issue on September 26, 1985 in Chicago.
Chicago Gay Men's Chorus, founded in 1983; Chicago Is a Drag Festival, founded in 2019; Chicago Pride Parade, the annual gay pride parade in June; over a million people now participate in the pride festivities [53] International Mr. Leather; Northalsted Market Days; Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ International Film Festival, founded in 1981
To start, Pride Month began 54 years ago in June 1970 with Gay Pride Week, a celebration that marked the first anniversary of the violent raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City.
In June 2009, Obama became the first president to declare the month of June to be LGBT pride month; President Clinton had declared June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] Obama did so again in June 2010, [ 109 ] June 2011, [ 110 ] June 2012, [ 111 ] June 2013, [ 112 ] June 2014, [ 113 ] and June 2015.
On June 27, 1970, the first gay and lesbian pride parade in the world was held in Chicago, followed by a march in New York City and a parade in Los Angeles on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. [53] Today such parades are held annually throughout the world. [54]
New York City's first gay pride march, then called Christopher Street Liberation Day, was held on June 28, 1970, the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
"Straight pride" and "heterosexual pride" are analogies and slogans that contrast heterosexuality with homosexuality by copying the phrase "gay pride". [78] Originating from the culture wars in the United States, "straight pride" is a form of conservative backlash as there is no straight or heterosexual civil rights movement.