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Pride 2021: Big cities playing it safe

photo credit // emma bertrand Pride has been celebrated in cities around the globe with parades - that have gotten bigger and bigger - during the month of June. The coronavirus pandemic brought those plans to a halt last year. Last spring, the group behind the Chicago Pride Parade, one of the country s largest annual Pride celebrations, canceled its in-person march for the first time in a half-century. This year, PRIDEChicago announced the parade will be rescheduled from its traditional last Sunday in June to Sunday, Oct. 3. Other groups in large cities are also playing it safe in June - returing with a mix of in-person and virtual events.

Pride 2021: Big cities playing the safe card with small gatherings, virtual events

Pride 2021: Big cities ‘playing the safe card’ with small gatherings, virtual events Jo Yurcaba © Provided by NBC News Holly Duchmann, who lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, plans to attend a Pride celebration for the first time this year.  “In the years before the pandemic, while I was out to my friends, I was still really scared to go to Pride,” Duchmann, 27, said. “Because I’m bisexual, I kind of pass as straight a lot, and so that kind of created anxiety with me for years, making me feel like I didn t really belong in the LGBT community.” She felt more accepted after finding queer community through her roller derby team, and in 2020, she was looking forward to going to her first Pride event. She even picked up pieces of “extravagant” clothing here and there to wear. But then everything was canceled because of the pandemic, and, during quarantine, she turned to TikTok to feel connected to other LGBTQ people.

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