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Pride Month celebration

The entire community is invited to join in Oak Park’s celebration of Pride Month. Stay tuned for details on Pride Month 2024.

Interested in helping plan the Village's Pride celebration or volunteering at the events? Click here to sign up as a volunteer.

2023 Pride Month Events
 
  • Oak Park Pride Party
    • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, June 24
    • Village Hall south lawn
    • Celebrate Pride Month during this family-friendly event featuring ice cream, facepainting, a DJ, games, bounce house, a magician and more from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 24 on the south lawn at Village Hall, 123 Madison St. Come dressed to impress in your best rainbow-themed outfit!

                                   

  • Transgender Experience in Oak Park Panel Discussion
    • 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, June 28
    • Madison Street Theater
    • As part of Oak Park's recognition of Pride Month, a panel discussion on the transgender experience in Oak Park is being held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28 at the Madison Street Theater, 1010 Madison St. The event is hosted by the Village in partnership with OPALGA+PFLAG and the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce. The panel will be moderated by Darien Marion-Burton, Board President for the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce. Admission is free but space is limited. Click here to RSVP.
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Pride Month in Oak Park

The Village of Oak Park joins communities across the country and around the world in recognizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Pride Month throughout June.

Pride Month celebrates the diversity and achievements of the LGBTQ community, while also raising awareness for the community’s fight for equal rights. 

The Village of Oak Park has a long history of supporting LGBTQ issues. In 1989, Oak Park’s Human Rights Ordinance was amended to bar employment and housing discrimination for gays and lesbians.

The Village secured domestic partnership benefits for Village employees in 1994.

And in 1997, Oak Park established a Domestic Partnership Registry for same-sex couples, the first municipality in Illinois to do so.

The rainbow flag, the iconic symbol of the LGBTQ movement, is flown all year outside of Village Hall.

Oak Park was also one of the first municipalities in the country to make diversity a matter of public policy by formally adopting a written statement that embodied the importance of openness and acceptance to quality of life in a community. Read the Village’s Diversity Statement at www.oak-park.us/diversitystatement.

Pride Month is held in June to honor the 1969 Stonewell Uprising in Manhattan, considered a turning point in the Gay Liberation Movement.

For more information, contact DEI@oak-park.us or 708.358.5778.