Gay Pride Parade -- Looking for Riders

We've got a full group of cyclists/rollerbladers at this point -- thanks to all who have volunteered/shown interest. If anyone really wants to participate, contact me through Chainlink.

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I'm looking for people to ride with the Active Transportation Alliance group in the Gay Pride Parade. The parade will be held on Sunday, June 28, in Lakeview in Chicago, starting a bit before noon.

I'm an Active Transportation volunteer, and have worked with the folks at Active Trans to pull this together at the last minute. We can't have a huge group (per the parade organizers), but I would like to make a good showing.

If you're an Active Transportation member, that'd be great but it's not a requirement. It's also not a requirement that anyone who particiates identify as a part of the LGBT community, but I do ask that anyone who participates be supportive of the community. There's also a list of parade rules and participants need to agree to those.

I don't have full details yet (as I said...it's last minute)...but I'll keep people informed as I know things. The parade starts at noon, so we'll need to meet up before that. What time things end partially depends on where we end up in the line-up.

My goal is to get a group that represents Active Transportation and have a ride that's a little different, and a lot of fun. Please get in contact if you're interested, have questions, whatever. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by cutifly on June 23, 2009 at 4:12am
But I am not gay although some people strongly disagree. Hard to know what to be proud of. Geez I really hate to brag . . .
Permalink Reply by Kate on June 23, 2009 at 4:59am
I would like to pass this invitation on to my group's listserv. Who/how should they contact if they are interested?
Permalink Reply by Sue Clark on June 23, 2009 at 6:04am
Hi Kate -

I appreciate the interest, but I think at this point we've got a pretty full group. The parade didn't want to be overtaken by bikers (their loss) and gave me a pretty low number that they wanted to see -- which I of course have already exceeded. I hate telling volunteers "no", but think at this point we're going to have to try for a greater mass next year.

Kate said:
I would like to pass this invitation on to my group's listserv. Who/how should they contact if they are interested?
Permalink Reply by Sue Clark on June 23, 2009 at 11:33pm
Actually...now I'm looking for walkers. Anyone know folks who might want to be monitors and walk with the group? We need two. Thanks.
Permalink Reply by Meghan on June 28, 2009 at 9:32pm
I've posted pictures of the Pride Parade on my page if anyone is interested!
Permalink Reply by Sue Clark on June 28, 2009 at 10:32pm
Thanks, Meghan. I'll take a look!

Meghan said:
I've posted pictures of the Pride Parade on my page if anyone is interested!
Permalink Reply by cutifly on June 29, 2009 at 4:24am
Thanks for letting me tag along, although I am very sunburned, I did have a great time. Who ever has pictures can you please post links here and we can chat about where the rainbow really does end.

Marty
Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on June 29, 2009 at 4:40am
Just wanted to echo the fun time. Hopefully they'll have us back next year!
Permalink Reply by Monica Kelley on May 24, 2010 at 8:02am
Hey Sue:
I met you on the ride of silence, and I am happy to ride in the parade.
Monica
Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 24, 2010 at 8:11am
Me too. Last year was awesome!

Monica Kelley said:
Hey Sue:
I met you on the ride of silence, and I am happy to ride in the parade.
Monica
Permalink Reply by Sue Clark on May 24, 2010 at 8:19am
Thanks, all!

I think we'll have another discussion group, soon, for this year rather than resurrecting last year. I've also entered the parade as an event this year.

More info soon.
Permalink Reply by Aaron Bussey on May 24, 2010 at 9:20am
I'm up for more ass smacking this year. Last year I just showed up on Halsted - same as that for this year?

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