Gay pri month kicks of Buffalo Grove wh annual para: ‘The msage is ... we’re all one’

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• GAY PRI MONTH KICKS OF BUFFALO GROVE WH ANNUAL PARA: ‘THE MSAGE IS ... WE’RE ALL ONE’
• SUPPORTERS ‘SUPER PROUD OF MY HOMETOWN’ AS GAY PRI PARA ROLLS THROUGH BUFFALO GROVE
• ‘3-HOUR TRAFFIC JAM’ CREATED AS PART OF GAY PRI DRIVE-BY CELEBRATN BUFFALO GROVE

GAY PRI MONTH KICKS OF BUFFALO GROVE WH ANNUAL PARA: ‘THE MSAGE IS ... WE’RE ALL ONE’

She and her fay have long been advot for social jtice issu their own town, but havg many gay fay members and iends, pri is the clost to home. As June gay pri month kicked off, the annual Buffalo Grove Pri Para rolled through the village Sunday wh more than 100 participatg entri, acrdg to the anizer’s unt.

“We n’t live fear and we know that the police have been workg for months on said if police feel nfint the gay pri para uld forth, “so do we. ”Goedke, who walked wh a bubble mache along the r, exprsed beg happy to see youth participatg as a growg young gay pri voice.

Organizers said that more than 2, 000 people marched or ro the gay pri para Sunday Buffalo Grove, wh hundreds of spectators led along the para raed heavily that morng as para barris were put up, but the weather cleared to sunny ski before para stepped off at Checker Drive and Carry Lane, begng 15 mut after the published start time of 11 a. The para is hosted by the Pta Pri Project n by him, his wife Carolyn, and their 16-year-old dghter Pta brought the first gay pri para to Buffalo Grove 2019. “We are jt so exced to be able to n the para the way we wanted to this year, ” Molly Pta, the drag queen om Munle, walks the para route of the annual gay pri para June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove.

SUPPORTERS ‘SUPER PROUD OF MY HOMETOWN’ AS GAY PRI PARA ROLLS THROUGH BUFFALO GROVE

(Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)Alexanr Dungan, of Evanston, marched wh Kgswood Uned Methodist Church the annual gay pri para June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove. (Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)The annual gay pri para Buffalo Grove June 5, 2022 started on Checker Drive.

(Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)Co Sho-Nell, drag queen, participated as the grand marshal of the annual gay pri para June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove. (Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)Sr of people led the streets June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove to watch the annual gay pri para.

(Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)The Laki Pri Marchg Band participated the annual gay pri para June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove. (Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)A crowd turned out to watch the annual gay pri para June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove. (Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)The Pta Pri Project anized the annual gay pri para June 5, 2022 Buffalo Grove.

‘3-HOUR TRAFFIC JAM’ CREATED AS PART OF GAY PRI DRIVE-BY CELEBRATN BUFFALO GROVE

(Karie Angell Luc / Pneer Prs)She explaed that the ia for a gay pri para Buffalo Grove started wh the Pta fay “havg a simple nversatn” and postg on social media. “I’m not beg brave, I’m jt beg me, ” said Pta, now dream me te Sunday wh the help of her parents, Carolyn and Bob Pta, both teachers who spent months helpg the teen plan the first-ever gay pri para the northwt than 2, 000 people are timated to have participated and thoands more attend the fay-iendly para that rolled along Checker Drive between Carry Lane and Ridgefield Lane, embracg LBGTQ a way the muny had never done Ptas raised more than $55, 000 to put on the para that attracted 50 sponsors and 90 lol groups, anizatns, policians and a signifint police Pta, wh her rabow-lored hair, has been regnized lolly as fearls, and has been named the Youth Grand Marshal for the Chigo Gay Pri Para June 30.

“The culmatg thg is the para, but ’s turned to so much more than that, ” said Carolyn Pta, the force behd the nonprof Pta Pri Ptas formed a Gay Straight Alliance at Molly’s school, Tw Grov Middle School, which was moled by three other Buffalo Grove schools. ”And that they did, takg to the next level by not only anizg the para but creatg a work for area gay teens who don’t have parents like the Ptas. ”She spoke of iends whose parents are homophobic and they fear for the nsequenc of sharg their sexualy wh their parents.

Carolyn Pta adms there is fely a small pocket of nservative folks the neighborhood who cricized them for g their posn as teachers and lears the muny to tell kids ’s OK to be gay when some don’t thk is OK. Lawmakers earlier passed requirements for teachg Black history and lsons about the ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.