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Chicago's 1st Gay Pride Week took place and. Andrew Cuomo, center background, officiates. The 48th annual Chicago Pride Parade steps off at noon - rain or shine - Sunday, June 25 at Broadway and Montrose in the Uptown neighborhood. "It says, 'today we treat equal people, equally', and that really is the fundamental promise of this country." David Turley places a wedding band on his husband Peter Thiede, during their marriage ceremony in front of New York's Stonewall Inn as New York Gov. Hundreds of thousands of spectators were expected to line. "This is a proud day for America because it stands up to one of the principles that makes America so special," Cuomo said. The Chicago Gay Pride Parade began at noon at Montrose and Broadway on the north side of the City. (Governors in New York were just granted the right to officiate marriages of any kind earlier this month.) There certainly is a large amount of community support and the parade is well attended. The 1998 Gay Pride Parade Photo: Terrence James/Chicago Tribune The 46th annual Chicago Pride Parade will be held this Sunday at noon, and this years edition could be special for a few reasons.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will be walking in the parade - after officiating a same-sex wedding ceremony for the first time. The Pride Parade in Chicago can best be described as free entertainment. "I actually just wrote on Twitter that this is the most historic Pride march since the first." "It's going to be an epic weekend," David Studinski, march director for New York City Pride told NBC New York. The Pride Parade takes place over a four-mile route on Sunday, starting in noon at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in Uptown and finishing near the intersection of Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road in Lincoln Park. The 2015 NYC Pride march has officially started, happy pride! #NYCPride #completethedream /L6Z3LBl8YA- New York City Pride June 28, 2015