A north suburban woman describes an undercurrent of worry and tension surrounding this year’s Pride celebration as much of the national political climate grows increasingly hostile to the LGBTQ community.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Bob and Carolyn Pinta raise the Pride flag during a flag-raising ceremony on June 1, 2023, in Buffalo Grove. The ceremony serves as the kickoff to Pride month festivities.
Customers reportedly knocked down Pride displays and angrily confronted employees at some locations. Threatening videos taken inside the stores were also posted on social media, according to the company. “As queer activists, employers/employees, innovators, healers, and most importantly people, we live and breathe pride 365 days a year,” the business said in amessage announcing its last day. “This is not goodbye. I promise you will be seeing A LOT of our faces and good outcomes will sprout from the hideous actions of so many against us here. This will not continue to happen to people, not while I have a voice and a beating heart.
Various parades, picnics and festivals supporting LGBTQ acceptance are scheduled this month throughout the Chicago area, including theAt the Buffalo Grove flag-raising, resident Hetal Wallace described a sense of “urgency” to hosting and attending these kind of Pride events this year, because of the wave of discrimination and bigotry facing the LGBTQ community.
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