Stay tuned for details on Chicago Pride 2022.ĭue to the Covid-19 pandemic, Chicago Pride 2021 will be a little different, with a split schedule between the popular Pride in the Park and the iconic Chicago Pride Parade. So, have you penciled in Gay Pride Chicago to calendar yet? We sure hope so! Program for Chicago Gay Prideīear in mind this is the program for Chicago Pride 2021. The festival features live music by popular artists, three stages, food and drink, 100+ arts/craft and merchant vendors, DJ’s and dancing, drag shows, a pet parade, sponsor booths and more at Halsted Street and Addison in Boystown, America’s first recognized gay village.Īs the Chicago Pride Parade is held on the last Sunday in June, weather for the event is usually warm and dry, so there's no excuse not to get out your finest tee, and march with pride in this lively city of Illinois. The weekend before the Chicago Pride Parade in Boystown, the Chicago Pride Fest starts the celebration! The annual Chicago Pride Fest is a two-day street festival held the weekend leading up to the Chicago Pride Parade, celebrating LGBTQ life, culture and community. Recent parades have extended the route into the Uptown neighborhood. For many years, the parade was held only in Lake View East. The first parade was organized on June 27, 1970, as a march from Washington Square to the Water Tower, but then many of the participants spontaneously marched on to the Civic Center Plaza. Chicago's Pride Parade is one of the largest, by attendance, in the world with 1,000,000+ people. The Chicago Pride Parade, also called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is held on the last Sunday of June. Expect workshops, dances, picnics, plays, film screenings and more! Now there’s a whole 30 days of around 100 different social, cultural and sporting events that take place in different areas of the Chicago metro area. Then Pride Week was expanded to 'Pride Month' in order to accommodate the abundance of events. Historically, in the 1970's and 1980's, Pride events were concentrated during a week called 'Pride Week' in Chicago. However, Gay Pride Chicago is just one part of June Pride Month in the city. Gay Pride Chicago is a huge gay event taking place each year in Illinois' largest city and includes a weekend festival and Parade on Pride Sunday.