Chicago pride twitter2/6/2024 ![]() ![]() The gay scene of 1970 in Chicago was underground, with the riots and uprising of New York City’s Stonewall Inn only one year old. The Activist: Gary Chichester, Circa 1970 And despite the pandemic postponement of the actual 50th Anniversary in 2020, Gary Chichester will be celebrating anew on June 26th, 2022, as the Chicago Pride Parade marches again. ![]() Photo credit: Rich Pfieffer/Gary ChichesterĪfter helping to launch the Pride March and Parade in its infancy, Chichester has seen it grow to be the most popular parade event in Chicago, drawing one million people to the Uptown and Boys Town neighborhood. Right: Gary Chichester & the Chicago Pride Flag Left: Chicago’s First Gay Pride Parade, June, 27, 1971. Chichester was part of that first gay pride march in 1970 … and 52 years later he’s the Grand Marshall of the 2022 Chicago Pride Parade, live and in person! CHICAGO – 52 years ago Monday (June 27th, 2022), a young activist got together with a group of marchers – with no permit – and showed the City of Chicago the actual faces of gay liberation.
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