Pride
It’s June! Which means it’s also Pride month! While Pride month is looking a little different this year with the absence of in-person celebrations world wide, there are still PLENTY of ways to celebrate and educate pride this year.
What is Pride and Why do we Celebrate it?
This year actually marks the 50th year of pride celebrations, the first one happening June 28, 1970, one year after Stonewall. The official chant at the first march was, “say it loud. Gay is proud.”
The Stonewall Uprising was the tipping point of the gay liberation movement and started with a riot against New York police officers who were legally allowed to arrest those who they perceived to be men wearing women’s clothing, or those who they perceived to be women wearing less than 3 articles of “feminine clothing.”
Now Pride month is seen as a time to celebrate the rights that those who are non-heteronormative have gained as well as to memorialize those in the LGBTQAI+ who have passed from HIV/AIDS and hate crimes.
Pride 2020 Celebrations
While we are not able to gather with one another in the streets of Boystown this June, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate pride!
Take a peak at those celebrating pride around the WORLD with Global Pride 2020’s virtual fest or check out a one of the virtual fests from cities all around the world here!
Watch one (or 10) of these LGBTQ+ movies.
Check out the Chicago is a Drag Festival online this year on June 30!
Support your local LGBTQ+ businesses from this HUGE list.
Check out the Drag Queen Drive Thru at Hamburger Mary’s in Andersonville.
Celebrate in-person (with masks and 6-feet away from everyone, please) at Navy Pier’s Pride Fest.
Donate to local LGBTQ+ organizations including Center on Halsted, Howard Brown Health, Chicago House,
Tune in to the virtual happy hour discussion with representatives from Brave Space Alliance and Center on Halsted, brought to you by The Matthew Shepard Foundation and Miller Lite.
Showing Our Pride
Pride is especially important this year for our own eGuide Family. Greg & his husband Kris welcomed their son Campbell into the world on 03.30 and have been enjoying quarantining, parenting, and co-working ever since.
“With the current administration trying to roll back the rights of same-sex couples trying to adopt, Pride is more important now than it has ever been. We have to do the research, stay up to speed on what’s going on, and continue to support the causes that mean the most to us, like family,” Greg said.
If you’d like to support LGBT Adoption Rights, you can visit ACLU’s Website
