#GAY PRIDE 2021 CHICAGO SERIES#
The first Pride marches were inspired by the Stonewall riots in New York City-a series of protests by the city’s gay community against the storming by police of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969. The collection includes photographs documenting Pride Parades of the 70s, as well as informal photographs of life among women in the lesbian and feminist communities in Chicago.
#GAY PRIDE 2021 CHICAGO ARCHIVE#
Its official charity partnership with The Center on Halsted donates part of its ticket sales to ensure LGBTQ and underprivileged youth may participate, feel welcomed, and celebrate their pride openly.Her photographs are part of the Eunice Hundseth Militante Photograph Collection, a large archive of materials associated with Militante just acquired by the Newberry. The donation will support community programs.Ĭhicago Pride has become one of the largest and well-known Pride events in the world and promotes a COVID-safe outdoor festival that brings equity, diversity, safety, and sounds to the main stage. There is a voluntary donation requested at the entry to Pride Fest. There is no fee to attend the Pride Fest or watch the Parade. Tickets are required for admission to LGBTQ Pride in the Park and can be found at. It will travel through the north side of the city, ending near the intersection of Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road in Lincoln Park. The 51 st annual Chicago LGBTQ Pride Parade will march through Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood at noon on Sunday, October 3, 2021, at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood. Our thoughts are with his beloved partner Tim, as well as the countless friends, family, and fellow activists Richard worked, laughed and celebrated with over the course of his incredible life. Richard was a living example of the power of speaking out and fighting for what you know is right. But Richard’s greatest legacy lies in Chicago’s own iconic Pride Parade, which for nearly 50 years he worked so hard to organize, guiding it to become the overwhelming celebration of love and acceptance that it is today. Richard was a tireless gay rights activist, whose boundless energy led him to lead countless advocacy groups over the past decades, from the Chicago Gay Alliance to the Mayor’s Advisory Council, the Gay Speakers Bureau, along with many others. Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated that Amy and I were very saddened to learn about the passing of Richard Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer held the title of volunteer marshal from 1974 until he died. Pfeiffer made history for serving as an activist the longest.Īrt Johnston, co-owner of Sidetrack and co-founder of Equality Illinois, credits Pfeiffer’s committed and consistent leadership to Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade to its growth from hundreds of participants to thousands of marchers and over a million viewers. Sadly, the coordinator of LGBTQ Chicago’s Pride Parade since 1974, Richard William Pfeiffer, died on Oct.
The annual month-long event honors the uprising of LGBTQ patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village regarding a raid on June 27, 1969, which led to a gay protest on June 27, 1970. The Pride Parade will be held on October 3, while Pride Fest has no set date, as yet. Pride in the Park will begin on Saturday, June 26, 2021, and end Sunday, June 27. Things will be a little different this year. Chicago is hosting the LGBTQ 51 st Pride Month celebration in June 2021, unlike in 2020, when it was canceled due to the pandemic.