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The 2011 parade included 250 entries and was attended by over 800,000 spectators, almost double the previous year, causing massive overcrowding and resulted in a reorganization of the parade route for the 2012 parade. Starting in 2013 the Chicago Pride Parade had reached over one million people each year, and the number continues to grow. [6]
A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride. The events sometimes also serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage.
The list presents the largest LGBTQ events (pride parades and festivals) worldwide by attendance. Statistics are announced both by the organizers and authorities (police). In this table, the largest single event by city as well as notable international events such as WorldPride or Europride are indica
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. [17] [12] In 1989, Richard M. Daley participated in the Gay Pride Parade, the first Chicago mayor to do so. [4]
Northalsted, commonly known as Boystown, hosts one of the largest LGBT populations in the United States, and has hosted the annual pride parade since 1971. [24] Originally the parade was started in 1970 as a march from Washington Square Park to the water tower, but since then it has taken different routes. The parade now passes through other ...
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During his career, Pfeiffer was a volunteer marshal at Chicago Pride Parade from 1971 to 1973 and coordinated the parade from 1974 for fifty years until 2019. [6] [7] [5]As a student, he established Chicago city college's inaugural gay student organization, volunteered at Horizons Community Services (now Center on Halsted), and presided over the organization in the mid-1970s. [8]
Nepal Pride Parade: Kathmandu: June 29 2019 Queer Womxn Pride: Kathmandu: Queer Rights Collective March 8 2019 Mitini Nepal Pride Parade: Kathmandu: Mitini Nepal February 14 2005 Blue Diamond Society Pride Parade: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar: www.bds.org.np: Gai Jatra: 2016 National LGBTI Day (Nepal) Nepal: Puash 6 (Bikram Sambat) 2015