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There were so many good shots, we decided to do one more round of pics from this year's Pride Parade. If you missed yesterday's post, check it out here. And you can see more of Kate's photos here.

A collection of reader-submitted Pride Parade pics.

There are a few changes in this year's Pride Parade, happening this weekend, but one of the biggest will be the installation of barricades along the parade route. The report comes from Michael Lehet at What's A Boy To Do (via WBEZ):

If memory serves correctly, for the last several years the weather at the Pride Parade has either been blisteringly hot, rainy, or a mix of both. For the 39th year of the event, however, Mother Nature seems to be cooperating and it looks like it's going to be a cool, sunny day for heading over to Boystown to participate in the revelry. The parade steps off from Halsted and Belmont at noon.

This year Gay Pride Month in Chicago, a.k.a. June, kicks off with a brand new documentary premiering tonight on WTTW. Out & Proud in Chicago highlights almost 150 years of the city’s LGBT history – from the Civil War era through present day. The documentary serves to illuminate the path to liberation for Chicago’s LBGT community, coupling historical milestones with personal vignettes and individual reflection. From the WTTW pressroom:

We were so excited about checking out the new Whole Foods Market in Boystown which opened last week, that we accidentally grabbed our Trader Joe’s reusable bag instead of our Whole Foods one (we figure it’s the thought that counts, right?). But walking around the large airy store with Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Starting Something” playing in the background, we quickly forgot all about our faux pas as well as that of Whole Foods CEO...

The annual Pride Parade roared through the streets of Lakeview this afternoon. Through its 38 years, the parade has become more corporate and mainstream. Channels 2, 5, 7, and 9 had a presence, as did every major bank in the city, Jewel, Whole Foods, Pepsico, AT&T, and many other corporations. Former NBA star John Amaechi, the first NBA player to come out as a gay man, welcomed the crowd as the parade’s grand marshall. A...

We alluded to it earlier, but this is one hell of a weekend for music in our fair city. One of the upswings of the indiefication of America has been the steadily improving street festival bills, so we can at least enjoy good tunes with our processed meats and flat beer, and this weekend sees two of the best line-ups all summer unfortunately going head to head with each other. The inaugural Switchyard Festival is...

There is so much to love about this week's contest winner, taken during yesterday's Pride Parade, we don't even know where to begin. We'd start with the wig, but then we realize there are those nifty sunglasses to consider. But somehow Chicagoist thinks that the sunglasses wouldn't be half as fantastic were it not for the mask holding the sunglasses in place.

It's the end of June and that can mean only one thing - Pride Weekend. A celebration of diversity at its finest, Pride festivities are varied and the list is long - everything from workshops to plays, cocktail parties to religious services, there is something for everyone. Be sure to check out the Howard Brown Youth Center for youth-oriented activities. The Dyke March kicks off tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at the corner of Ashland and...

No, Chicagoist isn't promoting the return of short pants for the White Sox. What happened in the 70's should stay in the 70's. But with so much going on around the World Champs yesterday, we figured we'd give a quick run-down of a few items. Sure it Wasn't the Bears and Rams? The White Sox had a night to remember at the plate last night, clobbering the St. Louis Cardinals 20-6 at the Cell. The...

Yesterday, around 400,000 Chicagoans and visitors gathered to watch the 36th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade. Politicians, drag queens, go-go boys, dykes on bikes, and moms and dads of gay kids paraded up Halsted and down Broadway under the hot June sun.

Chicagoist knows Lincoln Park has a "hot" real estate market, but we didn't understand just how hot. Enter Ella, a craigslist seller who knows all the juicy details. She's got her unchaste mitts all over some hot, steamy property, and you can read all about it in this raunchy ad:

Two Chicago Boystown caterers, Hearty Boys' Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh, won their own show on the Food Network. Dancing and merriment was seen on Halsted after the annoucement, although it's unclear as to whether celebrations were due to the response to the Food Network annoucement or spillover from the earlier Pride Parade. Dan and Steve beat out seven other contestants in a month-long competition. The couple's new show starts this fall....

An estimated 350,000 people crowded Lakeview to watch the 35th annual Pride Parade on Sunday. The second largest parade in Chicago and certainly the most colorful, Grand Marshal Esera Tuaolo -- an openly gay former NFL football player -- lead 230 groups that participated in the parade representing a huge variety of politicians, political and social causes, organizations, businesses and nightclubs. An increasingly mainstream event, Chicagoans -- straight and gay alike -- came out to show their support and enjoy the pagentry.