At Pride Parade, Chicagoans Celebrate The LGBTQ+ Community: 'They Can't Take Our Joy'
The parade featured 155 groups and followed a shortened route as organizers emphasized visibility, advocacy and safety.
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55th annual Chicago Pride Parade marches on despite attacks on community: ‘We might have to Act Up again’
Ricardo Jiménez, director of public health initiatives for the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, has every reason to be quiet.His activism for Puerto Rican independence landed him a 90-year sentence on allegations of seditious conspiracy. He was granted clemency in 1999 by President Bill Clinton, and has helped run the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s Vida/SIDA program as an HIV/AIDS counselor for the last 15 years.Sunday, he and others from the Puert…
At Pride Parade, Chicagoans Celebrate The LGBTQ+ Community: 'They Can't Take Our Joy'
LAKEVIEW — Thousands of Chicagoans crowded along the streets of Lakeview and Lincoln Park Sunday, grasping rainbow flags and adorned in multicolored clothing and face paint for the 55th annual Pride Parade. The Pride Parade, which kicked off at 11 a.m., marks a celebration of more than half a century since Chicago’s first Gay Liberation March in protest of LGBTQ+ discrimination. The 2026 theme, “Free to Be Proud,” encourages attendees to honor t…
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