During this year’s Pride in The Park, the festival will take place two days instead of a single day previously planned. Please send a note to with the subject “Chicago Pride Parade” to let us know you’ll be participating. Approximately 5,500 people attended the inaugural Pride In The Park at Grant Park, an entertainment facility at Grant Park in downtown Chicago, on June 14, 2019.
Touché will be providing bottled water during the parade and you’ll want to drink plenty of water the day before and bring a bottle of water with you to stay well hydrated. It’s always a fun time and party atmosphere before during and after the parade. You are invited to walk the length of the parade or any portion you would like but we will be doing a BLUF group photo before the parade kicks off at the Touché Truck.īLUF members and uniform fans will be meeting at the Touché truck in the staging area on Montrose Ave. Touché will be providing a truck and anyone who is unable to walk the route may ride. The gay pride parade has roots in the Windy City going back to 1972 and has taken place in the Boystown area of the city until this year, when it was canceled over the coronavirus. Monday DecemDuring most years, the slew of LGBTQ+ events held during Pride Month culiminates on the last weekend in June with the Chicago Pride Parade, which snakes its way joyously.
The summer code is a mix of fabric uniform elements with leather to maintain a uniform look while also keeping a bit cooler. Organizers insisted that the rally held in the city’s West Side Lakeview neighborhood was an attempt to reclaim the grassroots efforts to push gay pride, according to ABC 7. We are encouraging BLUF dress code minus the jacket or what we call BLUF Summer Dress Code. that you please joinus in marching in Toucher’s leather pride contingent. A block party will follow at the neighboring National Museum of Ireland Archaeology. from O’Connell Street Upper and Parnell Square and make their way to Merrion Square. Gay rights activist Richard Pfeiffer, who organized the parade for 45 years, died Sunday at age 70. The Dublin Pride Parade will top off Dublin Gay Pride 2019 with LGBTQ advocates marching through the city square.
If you are a BLUF member or a leather uniform fan we are asking. People watch the 50th Chicago Pride Parade in Chicago, Sunday, June 30, 2019. Leather Men have always been a visible part of the community and we need your help at the Chicago Pride Parade to have the largest group of leather wearing men as possible. As you may know this year marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, the birth of gay civil rights and pride as we know it today.