In the evening the revelers will pour into Boystown clubs and party into the wee hours of the night. During Chicago Pride Fest the weekend prior, stages of music, exhibitors, great food and drinks will be available to enjoy.
The annual parade marks the uprising, outside New York’s landmark Stonewall Inn, which began the Gay Rights Movement. More after the photo - 2019 Chicago Pride Parade, photo by Steven Koch for The energy in the city peaks on Pride Weekend, which traditionally falls on the last weekend of June each year to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. Pride Month in June highlights Chicago's vibrant LGBT community. The parade winds ( map) its way through the north side of the city, ending near the intersection of Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road in Lincoln Park. The 51st annual Chicago Pride Parade marches through the city's Boystown neighborhood with the annual parade steps off at noon on Sunday, June 26, at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood. Pride in the Park in Chicago's Grant Park is Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26. The iconic Chicago Pride Parade is Sunday, June 26, beginning at noon. He held the title through this year's 50th annual Chicago Pride Parade.Ĭhicago Pride Fest, presented by the Northalsted Business Alliance, returns Saturday, June 18 (11 a.m. Pfeiffer watched Chicago's first-ever parade in 1970, was a volunteer marshal at the second, third and fourth parades, and he volunteered to be the coordinator at the fifth parade in 1974. "Under Rich's year-round consistent leadership Chicago's Gay Pride Parade grew from a few hundred participants and observers to thousands of marchers and over a million viewers, reflecting the amazing growth of our communities." "One of our earliest and longest-serving activists, Rich Pfeiffer made history as he gave our community decades of committed, effective service," said Art Johnston, Sidetrack co-owner and co-founder of Equality Illinois. Richard William Pfeiffer, coordinator of the annual Chicago Pride Parade since 1974 and a member of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, died Sunday, October 6, 2019. He was 70. Remembering Richard Pfeiffer - October 6, 2019 The coronavirus pandemic brought all those plans to a halt in 20, but PRIDE IS BACK in 2022. Pride in the Park, an outdoor music festival in Chicago’s historic Grant Park, made its debut in 2019. in the North Side neighborhood colloquially referred to a ‘Boystown’ the weekend prior to the parade. The Pride festival takes place along North Halsted St.
At Diva Royale, you’ll be treated like royalty in the presence of these drag queens.įind what really matters in Chicago with the UrbanMatter app! To download or see reviews from our users, head here.Chicago's Pride celebration consists of a full month of festivities and events, culminating with the annual Chicago Pride Parade, which traditionally takes place the last Sunday of June. You can sit down and enjoy a meal while you watch Chicago’s best celebrity impersonators put on a show-stopping performance right in front of you. May the best queen win!ĭiva Royale Photo Credit: Diva Royale Facebook We couldn’t possibly leave out one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars, especially since it’s home to Roscoe’s Drag Race, a weekly amateur drag competition where queens can dress to impress and perform their very best to truly earn their diva status. Or, get to Hamburger Mary’s at noon for a drag queen-themed brunch with bottomless mimosas! Get your best friends together, chug a beer for bravery, and belt it out loud and proud like nobody’s watching in Mary’s Attic. If you’re a fearless queen, you can join your fellow divas at MaryOke-karaoke night in the upstairs dance floor at Hamburger Mary’s diner. Mary’s Attic Photo Credit: Hamburger Mary’s Facebook You can even get down and dirty at your own private party by renting out this rad space for all of your friends. With unique themes like Honeys on Halsted and Ruffy’s Lipstick and Mascara happening on a weekly basis, you can’t pick a bad night to visit this popular gay bar. Thanks to their special $10 bottles of champagne and drag shows starting at 5 p.m., there’s really no reason not to day-drink with these divas. after you’ve rolled out of bed with a massive hangover) and cleanse yourself of sleepiness with a good old-fashioned mimosa.
Get to the Scarlet Bar early on Sunday (and by early, I mean 11 a.m. Scarlet Bar Photo Credit: Scarlet Bar Facebook This massive, drag-friendly bar puts on the biggest shows of the year almost every single night, so grab your lipstick and mascara and join these ladies on the dance floor! If you’re a Northside native, you are sure to have found your way into Berlin at least once every summer, if not because you were drawn to the bumping music and flashing lights from the outside.