Overview

• New York City, San Francisco and Chicago will hold their Pride parades on June 29, featuring themes “Rise Up: Pride in Protest,” “Queer Joy is Resistance” and “United in Pride.”
• Police departments in all three cities plan to be fully staffed, deploy street barriers and maintain presence after the parades to deter violent incidents.
• City agencies have enacted extensive street closures along parade routes and adjusted public transit schedules with Muni and BART reroutes in San Francisco, subway advisories in New York and CTA diversions in Chicago.
• Heat-relief measures such as medical tents, cooling buses and misting stations have been positioned along parade routes to help attendees cope with forecast highs in the mid-90s.
• Organizers emphasize that these events serve both as festive celebrations of LGBTQ+ identity and acts of protest against the growing political challenges to LGBTQ+ rights.