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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]
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
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.
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 ...
CHICAGO — Organizers of the annual Chicago Pride Parade and allied groups are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to rescind the city’s plan to downsize the event this June. The city last month ...
first gay pride in Switzerland 1984 Pride Geneva 1997: Geneva: first gay pride in the francophone area of Switzerland: July 5 1997 Pride 2001 Sion: Sion: Gay pride Sion 2001 [5] July 7 2001 Pride 2004 Geneva: Geneva: Gay pride 2004: July 10 2004 Arosa Gay Ski Week: Arosa, Graubünden: www.arosa-gayskiweek.com: January 2005 Pride 2006 Lausanne ...
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 2017.
ROTC at Atlanta's Pride Parade, 2009. The Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps is a Chicago-based visual performance ensemble of gay male volunteers. The name is a play on the Reserve Officer Training Corps. The group appears at gay events in Chicago. It also travels across the country to perform at various LGBTQ events. [1]