Chicago – It’s Pride Week, ya all, part of Pride Month, culminating in the upcoming Pride Weekend … the more the Pride the better. 2021 marks the 50th Anniversary of the first official Gay Pride Parade in Chicago – the first “march” took place a year earlier in 1970, honoring the first anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Uprising. 1971 was the first permit-applied-for official parade, and the guy behind it is here to tell all about it, Chicago LGBTQ+ Hall-of-Famer Gary G. Chichester.
Left: Chicago’s First Gay Pride Parade, June, 27, 1971. Right: Gary Chichester & the Chicago Pride Flag
Photo credit: Rich Pfieffer/Gary Chichester
As the march became a parade in 1971, activist Gary Chichester became involved by co-founding the Chicago Gay Alliance that same year, which created the first gay and lesbian community center in the Windy City. Gary also practiced activism through The Chicago Gay Health Project, the Gay Rights National Lobby, the Names Project,...
Left: Chicago’s First Gay Pride Parade, June, 27, 1971. Right: Gary Chichester & the Chicago Pride Flag
Photo credit: Rich Pfieffer/Gary Chichester
As the march became a parade in 1971, activist Gary Chichester became involved by co-founding the Chicago Gay Alliance that same year, which created the first gay and lesbian community center in the Windy City. Gary also practiced activism through The Chicago Gay Health Project, the Gay Rights National Lobby, the Names Project,...
- 6/21/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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