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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.
"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.
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]
Around 1929, The Surprise of a Knight became the first American gay pornographic film. A Stiff Game would be the second American gay pornographic film. We Men Must Grow a Mustache by Speed Langworthy, 1922. Homosexuality was also present in the music industry. In 1922, Norval Bertrand Langworthy (better known as Speed Langworthy) (b. May 15 ...
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.
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.
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
In my new book, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are, I explore the history of this term, from the earliest days of the gay rights movement, to today, when it has been adopted by other movements.