Pride in the Park in Chicago's Grant Park is Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26. The iconic Chicago Pride Parade is Sunday, June 26, beginning at noon. He held the title through this year's 50th annual Chicago Pride Parade.Ĭhicago Pride Fest, presented by the Northalsted Business Alliance, returns Saturday, June 18 (11 a.m. Pfeiffer watched Chicago's first-ever parade in 1970, was a volunteer marshal at the second, third and fourth parades, and he volunteered to be the coordinator at the fifth parade in 1974. "Under Rich's year-round consistent leadership Chicago's Gay Pride Parade grew from a few hundred participants and observers to thousands of marchers and over a million viewers, reflecting the amazing growth of our communities." "One of our earliest and longest-serving activists, Rich Pfeiffer made history as he gave our community decades of committed, effective service," said Art Johnston, Sidetrack co-owner and co-founder of Equality Illinois. Richard William Pfeiffer, coordinator of the annual Chicago Pride Parade since 1974 and a member of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, died Sunday, October 6, 2019. He was 70. Remembering Richard Pfeiffer - October 6, 2019 The coronavirus pandemic brought all those plans to a halt in 20, but PRIDE IS BACK in 2022. Pride in the Park, an outdoor music festival in Chicago’s historic Grant Park, made its debut in 2019. in the North Side neighborhood colloquially referred to a ‘Boystown’ the weekend prior to the parade. The Pride festival takes place along North Halsted St.
's Pride celebration consists of a full month of festivities and events, culminating with the annual Chicago Pride Parade, which traditionally takes place the last Sunday of June. LGBTQ Activism: The Henry Gerber House, Chicago, IL.
READ MORE: How Activists Plotted the First Gay Pride Parades Sources In 2016, then-President Barack Obama designated the site of the riots-Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surrounding streets and sidewalks-a national monument in recognition of the area’s contribution to gay rights. The parade’s official chant was: “Say it loud, gay is proud.” On the one-year anniversary of the riots on June 28, 1970, thousands of people marched in the streets of Manhattan from the Stonewall Inn to Central Park in what was then called “Christopher Street Liberation Day,” America’s first gay pride parade. Though the Stonewall uprising didn’t start the gay rights movement, it was a galvanizing force for LGBT political activism, leading to numerous gay rights organizations, including the Gay Liberation Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).
READ MORE: 7 Surprising Facts About the Stonewall Riots and the Fight for LGBT Rights Stonewall's Legacy For instance, solicitation of same-sex relations was illegal in New York City. The 1960s and preceding decades were not welcoming times for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.Įxplore the history of the LGBTQ movement in America here. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of Jwhen New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City.