Log Cabin Chicago Blog

Log Cabin Illinois marched in the 2007 Gay Pride Parade on our own float! In years past we’ve typically marched with a politician like, Judy Baar Topinka. This year however the Pride Committee organized an outstanding presence for us at the parade. We handed out cards supporting an end to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT). We’ve typically received a mixed response from parade observers. This year however, it seemed like people reacted more positively then ever! We ran out of DADT postcards not halfway through the parade route!

Along with LCR members running beside the float handing out DADT postcards, we also had a number of veterans on the float.

View more photos of the 2007 Pride Parade

Yesterday Log Cabin Illinois sponsored an event co-hosted by American Veterans for Equal Rights, The Chicago Commission on Human Relations (Advisory Council on Veterans Affairs and Advisory Council on LGBT Issues), and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Visit my flickr account to view photos of the event.

Speakers included:

Anthony Vaughn

Jean Albright

Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman, MD

Antonio Agnone

Jarrod Chlapowski

Alexander Nicholson

Julianne Sohn

Chicago Tribune covers Chicago’s Salute to GLBT Veteran’s in a story titled, “Gay vets say policy hurts military.”

Today at noon the City of Chicago, and Log Cabin Chicago will salute America’s gay veterans! more to follow…