Longtime Chicago Pride Parde coordinator Tim Frye has been inducted into The U.S. Association of Prides (USA Prides) 2025 Hall of Fame.
Celebrate love, equality, and diversity as the 6th annual Aurora Pride Parade returns Sunday, June 8th, 2025 at Noon. Expect a day filled with colorful floats, incredible performances, and an amazing sense of community.
The City of Chicago honored longtime Chicago Pride Parade coordinator Richard Pfeiffer with an honorary street sign—“Rich Pfeiffer Parade Way”—at the northwest corner of Belmont Avenue and North Halsted Street.
The Chicago Pride Parade, the culmination of Pride Month, returns Sunday, June 30 at 11 a.m.
Planning to attend the Chicago Pride Parade? Here’s everything you need to know.
With the 53rd annual Chicago Pride Parade set for Sunday, June 30, Art Johnston has decades of wide-ranging memories and emotions around Pride Month, which culminates locally on the last Sunday of June with the rainbow-drenched parade through multiple northside Chicago neighborhoods in front of about 1 million spectators.
Asians & Friends Chicago (AFC) is bringing an “Under The Sea” theme to the 2024 Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 30, capping off the city’s proudest month of the year for the LGBTQ+ community.
Asians & Friends Chicago, since 1985, has been bringing together gay people who are interested in developing a greater understanding…
Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles brings about 25 years of experience to the Chicago Pride Parade as Chicago’s premier family of performance groups for members and friends of the LGBTQ+ community. Home to four major ensembles – Jazz Orchestra, Marching Band, Symphonic Band, and Pops Ensemble – plus over a dozen chamber ensembles, the organization offers…
PRIDEChicago, the all-volunteer organization behind the iconic Chicago Pride Parade for over 50 years, announces the selection of comedienne, Fortune Feimster and her wife Jax Smith as Grand Marshals for the 2024 Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 30th starting at 11 a.m.
The Second City Outlaws, a local non-profit charity organization, bring the best in country dance fun and entertainment to every performance – including the annual Chicago Pride Parade, set for Sunday, June 30.
PRIDEChicago – the all-volunteer organization that has produced the iconic Chicago Pride Parade for 50 years, today announces the 2024 theme is “Pride is Power,” highlighting the fundamental role the Chicago Pride Parade has played in creating visibility and advocating for effective change for the city and region’s LGBTQ+ community for five decades.
Comedian Fortune Feimster, along with her wife Jax, will lead the 53rd annual Chicago Pride Parade. Featuring 150 colorful entries, the parade will travel through Chicago’s landmark LGBTQ+ Northalsted neighborhood.
ABC 7 celebrates the 53rd Annual Chicago Pride Parade with a two-hour, live parade broadcast, Sunday, June 25, from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Tanja Babich, Hosea Sanders and Jason Knowles host the Chicago Pride Parade broadcast with Knowles capturing all of the action live from the street.
LGBTQAI+ community advocates join the festivities, including Cody LaGrow (Emmy…
The organizers of the 53rd annual Chicago Pride Parade released the lineup for this Sunday’s parade, which organizers said will be one of the largest in years.
Nearly 200 entries are expected this year, up from 170 in 2022.
Organized by PRIDEChicago, the annual parade returned in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to the…
One of the nation's oldest and largest LGBTQ celebrations, the Chicago Pride Parade returns Sunday, June 26 after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The parade was cut short due to inclement weather in 2019 and canceled in 2020—marking a first in its 50-year history.
Usually the capstone of Pride month in Chicago,…
The Chicago Pride Parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 28, has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first time that the parade has been postponed or canceled in its 50-year history.
"We are sad to announce that the annual Pride Parade will not take place this year on June 28. We announce this postponement in…
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. He was 70.
Tim Frye, Pfeiffer's husband of 48 years, shared the news with GoPride.com. Pfeiffer battled cancer for the past two years, according to Frye. The funeral will…
The 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City were ignored by Chicago's newspapers and it was harassment as usual for the city's gay citizens: lesbians wearing men's shirts were arrested for cross-dressing; an over-zealous pretty-boy cop named Sgt. John Manley continued his purge on gay men in the rest room near Lincoln Park Conservatory; and the…
