GLN in the March.

GLN's Buddy Bell and Donte Smith

Jeff Graubart (left) was a principal organizer of Chicago's 1974 Gay Pride Parade. Conservative forces within the gay community had decided that pride parades weren't needed anymore (even though we had won absolutely no legal rights) and so had cancelled that year's parade. Jeff and others stepped up to the plate and did it in spite of them. A few years later, with the rise of Anita Bryant and the assassination of Harvey Milk, the need for the parade was apparent to everyone. Joining Jeff is GLN's Dan Pioletti (right).