Boystown mainstay honoring LGBTQ leaders getting landmark status
CHICAGO - As the celebration for Pride Fest continues, a mainstay of Boystown is getting official landmark status for educating the public about LGBTQ contributions to history.
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Set up for Pride underway at Loring Park
Set up for Pride weekend is underway in Loring Park. The park will have 400 vendors, including 40 food vendors to tempt your tastes. (Mentions the Legacy Wall)
Boystown Legacy Walk, pylons to be named first multi-block LGBTQ landmark in the world
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The country's first outdoor LGBTQ museum, the Legacy Walk, is in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood.
Walking down Halsted street you can see tall golden pylons everywhere.
Legacy Wall at U.S. Bank
Out at CHM event explores current, past activism
Chicago History Museum closed the 16th season of its Out at CHM LGBT-focused programming June 13 with "Quiet as a Riot," a discussion of the past and current states of LGBT activism in the city.
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Walking the Walk: Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Activism with Victor Salvo’s Legacy Project
In Time For Pride, Rainbow Colored Crosswalks
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — In time for Pride month, several crosswalks on Chicago’s North Side are now painted the colors of the rainbow.
These monuments honor LGBTQ history around the world
This June marks the 50th anniversary of New York City’s Stonewall riots, the June 1969 uprising that galvanized the LGBTQ rights movement in the United S
'It's extraordinarily powerful': first trans monument comes to New York
Transgender activists Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are set to be honored close to the location of the Stonewall uprising of which they were a part of in 1969. (They are also featured on Chicago's Legacy Walk)