Crilly Court in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood was designated a National Historic Landmark. He was never convicted, but the publicity (including a newspaper headline reading “Strange Sex Cult Exposed”) led to his firing for conduct unbecoming a postal worker. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)Ĭhicago’s role in the gay rights movementįirst American gay-rights group founded here: In 1924, postal clerk Henry Gerber formed the Society for Human Rights. The Stonewall Inn, shown in 2016, in New York’s Greenwich Village.
It’s considered a critical moment in the gay-rights movement.įormer President Barack Obama designated a 7.7-acre area - including the tavern and a small park across the street - the first national monument to gay rights in 2016.
LGBT Pride Month commemorates the June 1969 Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village, which began when patrons at a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, violently resisted a police raid. (Alexandra Wimley/Chicago Tribune)īRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS IN CHICAGO Why are gay rights celebrated in June? (Only registered parade participants, police officers and other city officials, security staff, parade marshals and credentialed media will be allowed in the street during the parade.) The Lakeside Pride marching band in the 2017 Pride Parade. The planned 150 registered entries will include floats, decorated vehicles, performance groups, a marching band and walking contigents representing community organizations, businesses, government officials and individual community members.
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One week after presiding as “King” of the Chicago Puerto Rican People’s Parade, Orlando “El Fenomeno” Cruz - the first openly gay active professional boxer - will lead the Chicago Pride Parade.Ĭruz, who has won four world boxing titles and competed for Puerto Rico in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, came out on Oct.