Preparations underway for Chicago Pride Parade
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Preparations underway for the 52nd annual Chicago Pride Parade beginning in Uptown on June 25, 2023.
Conkling donned rainbow suspenders and had a rainbow flag painted on his cheek. He said he remembers what it was like 10 years ago, and called today’s attitude toward LGBTQ communities a “radical transformation.” As a transgender male, he said he appreciates Gen Z’s more open attitude toward trans people.
Hannigan and her niece, 26-year-old Jocelyn Davidson from Elk Grove Village, were passing out Pedialyte to passersby during the parade. Davidson, who is bisexual, said it’s getting scary because of recent political attacks on the LGBTQ community, making it even more important to celebrate Pride this year.Pride celebrations are crucialThe parade’s history can be traced to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City, a series of protests responding to a police raid of Stonewall Inn, a gay bar.
”Let’s see where we stand as not only people in faith, but people who are uniting as individuals and coming together as people who are here to celebrate everyone’s differences,” Bavirsha said. Brown is now a hairstylist and the two of them are roommates in Rogers Park. They came with Brown’s family and set up a large speaker on the sidewalk to blare music and dance with her sister and aunt. They wore fishnet stockings and large hoop metal earrings with rainbow statement pieces: Brown in a butterfly rainbow bralette and Moncrief in a fluffy rainbow tutu.
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