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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- WATCH: EVERY EXCG MOMENT OF CHIGO'S GAY PRI PARA SQUEEZED INTO JT 10 MUT
- CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
WATCH: EVERY EXCG MOMENT OF CHIGO'S GAY PRI PARA SQUEEZED INTO JT 10 MUT
The para was was origally held River North before movg to Boystown (formerly known as “Gaytown” and “New Town”). * gay parade chicago 2015 *
RECOMMENDED: Full gui to Gay Pri Chigo 2015. The para was was origally held River North before movg to Boystown (formerly known as “Gaytown” and “New Town”). The 1998 Gay Pri Para Photo: Terrence Jam/Chigo Tribune.
While the first gay pri para had only a few hundred atten, last year's march drew one ln people to the route. And while may strike some as odd to move the gay pri para out of Boystown, the event didn't actually start there. When the "Gay Liberatn Movement" anized s first-ever march the cy 1970 on the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, Boystown as you know didn't exist.
Before divg , 's important to note that the gay muny Chigo took root long before Stonewall.
CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
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) But while Chigo would ntue to see gay activists rise to promence the g s, the first gay pri para wouldn't be until June 27, 1970. The Tribune ran a 75-word blurb about the event on the third page of s June 28 edn, notg that end wh ftgoers circlg the Pisso statue the plaza and shoutg, "Gay power to gay people. After that, the para tend to follow the gay muny.
The "gay liberatnists" leadg the charge numbered 300, acrdg to the Tribune.
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The first gay bar on Halsted Street, Ltle Jim's, opened 1975, and others soon followed, among them the Loadg Dock (now the K Kat Club), Christopher Street (now Hydrate), and Sitrack (opened 1982 and still bs). As Chigo noted 1983, an article about gay life here:.
Today, Chigo's gay populatn is about half a ln, though obvly no one has taken a cens.
It is most visible the New Town area on the North Si, wh s strg of gay bars and bathho that are monly the centerpiece of media verage. Jane Byrne was the first mayor to officially regnize the event, issug a Gay Pri Para Day proclamatn 1981. In 1997, Mayor Daley clared the six-block stretch of Halsted om Grace to Belmont the first official gay neighborhood Ameri.