The parade will continue southeast on Broadway to Halsted Street, and head south down the Boystown strip to Belmont Avenue. The new route starts at the intersection of Broadway and Montrose Avenue in Uptown, 0.75 miles from the north end of the Halsted Street Boystown strip, organizers said. The parade route change has also drawn criticism. In a statement, the group said George wanted to 'promote a double standard when it comes to the Gay Pride Parade,' given that church leaders do not take issue with disruptions to churches during the Chicago Marathon, which is also held on a Sunday. The remarks drew a rebuke by the Rainbow Sash Movement, an organization of gay Roman Catholics. 50?' he wrote.īoystown Facebook page readers were also angered by a remark by Francis Cardinal George this week, in which he told Fox Chicago News that he disapproved of the new route because the 'gay liberation movement' should not 'morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.'
'Why can't they reschedule their service? 500,000 people vs. But one reader said the church, and not the parade, should alter its schedule for that one day.