Chigo hosted the first Gay Pri Para the Uned Stat on June 27, 1970. Here's a look back at how the annual event has evolved through the years.
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- CHICAGO GAY PRIDE PARADE +
- CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
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The Chigo's para’s history n be traced to the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, a seri of protts rpondg to a police raid of Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. Chigo’s first Pri march was held on the one-year anniversary of those protts. * chicago gay pride pics *
Photographer Kathleen Hkel ptured dozens of special plac and events Chigo where members of the queer muny n fd a home, get support — and unapologetilly be o to Chigo’s LGBTQ muny:Cred: Kathleen Hkel/Block Club ChigoNicknamed the Pri hoe, this Anrsonville home rais money for the ternatnal nonprof Men Havg Babi, which is dited to providg gay men wh tnal and fancial support to achieve parenthood. Origally om Bangkok, Hart is a versatile performer wh a long list of aclas, cludg beg named Miss Gay Ameri MORE: Uptown’s Baton Show Lounge Has New Pat Wh Outdoor Drag Shows: ‘The Neighbors Love It’Cred: Kathleen Hkel/Block Club ChigoFonda LaFemme prepar to perform durg bnch at the Baton Show Lounge. It has been a neighborhood haven sce the MORE: Chigo Has One Of The Country’s Longt-Runng Black-Owned Gay Bars — And It’s On The South SiCred: Kathleen Hkel/Block Club ChigoKaley, 31, and Sky, 36, hang out at Back Lot Bash on Sunday, June 26, 2022.
(Brian Cassella/Chigo Tribune)The Chigo's para’s history n be traced to the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, a seri of protts rpondg to a police raid of Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. Przker supporters reads “In Illois We Say Gay” at the 52nd annual Chigo Pri Para on June 25, 2023. Gay Pri Para, Chigo, 1973.
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A photographer and an activist, Milante was a fixture at women’s march, monstratns, and Pri Paras Chigo throughout the 70s, beg a sort of unofficial photographer of the gay rights and femist movements.
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The first Pri march were spired by the Stonewall rts New York Cy—a seri of protts by the cy’s gay muny agast the stormg by police of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969.
Organized by Chigo Gay Liberatn and attend by around 150 people total, the Chigo march passed through the Michigan Avenue shoppg district before arrivg at Daley Plaza, wh marchers listeng to speech, dancg, and chantg slogans along the way. Gay Pri Para, Chigo, 1978. At the same time, many of her photos foc on the activism at the re of the early Pri march–like a photo of a woman holdg a sign readg “I’m gay & proud” om the 1977 Para.
Gay Pri Para, Chigo, 1977. ”—a reference to the orange juice boytt lnched by gay rights activists agast anti-gay rights sger Ana Bryant, who served as brand ambassador for Florida Orange Juice throughout the 70s. She documented more timate moments as well, cludg two figur seen a photo om the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights October 1979.