Chicago gay pride parade 2008

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The Illinois marchers gamely tried their hand at the song, "California here we come," but only knew the lyrics to the first two lines of the song, so just kept repeating them over and over again. Transported West Coaster holding up a California driver's license.

The contingent, organized by the Gay Liberation Network www. Bash Chicago gay pride parade 2008 Tim is elated! The 39 th annual festive event will include over floats, bands, cars, and other participants. But just as we were getting ready to deploy our "remedy" to the Preachers, a Midwestern cloud burst again poured buckets of water on the parade and threatened to ruin the whole action.

' The annual Chicago Pride Parade is one of the most highly attended parades in the city, with nearly half a million spectators last year. For several years now the end of the Pride Parade has been harassed by a fascist group called "Street Preachers," who aim to construct an anti-gay, anti-women theocratic dictatorship in the United States.

Ober-fuhrer Street Preacher leader Reuben Israel fulminates behind the huge banner. It was beginning to look like "The City that Works," which is bidding to host the Olympics, couldn't even handle a parade, much less an international sports extravaganza.

The Chicago Pride Parade, also colloquially (and formerly) called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade, is an annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. They dress up their wish that all Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgender people be murdered with Biblical quotes like "the wages of sin are death.

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In accordance with Title 17 U. Sectionthe material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. This year's Grand Marshal: Eric Alva, the first American to be wounded in Iraq, the war's first Purple Heart recipient, and an openly gay ex-Marine and.

When SF Mayor Gavin Newsome defied the national Democratic Party by issuing marriage licenses, he gave a huge boost to the drive towards legal equality. Bash Back dancing in the streets. A square foot banner eclipses the fascist anti-gay bigots.

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Unfortunately some in the some-what inebriated crowd looked at the pictures of Obama and interpreted the signs as endorsements, a misinterpretation only somewhat countered by chants of "Obama, Obama, let mama marry mama," and "McCain, McCain, he's just insane!

A handful of powerful Chicago politicians have said they favor equal marriage rights for Lesbians and Gays, but the one politician with power to actually issue marriage licenses, the Democratic liberal Cook County Clerk David Orr, has so far refused to do so.

One of the themes of the contingent was that it's not good enough for "gay-friendly" politicians to march in our parades and say they like us, they have to do something about it. Such has been the mindless hoopla about this year's presidential race, that many in the crowd were under the mistaken impression that hometown candidate Barack Obama favors marriage equality for Lesbians and Gays.

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As the rest of the contingent parade went by huge cheers went up for the successful action against the bigots who had for so many years taunted the parade. Chicago's annual Gay Pride Parade, 6/30/This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to help show content that is more relevant to your interests.

It is considered a culmination of the larger Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in Chicago, as promulgated by the Chicago City Council and Mayor of Chicago. A stalled parade vehicle and a rain storm stopped the entire parade for about an hour as the tightly packed crowd flooded into the streets in futile attempts to find a dry place to wait out the storm.