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The crowd at the Vic on Sheffield enjoyed top acts like the Scissor Sisters and its openly gay lead singer Jake Shear. Later, across the street at Berlin Nightclub, the band’s DJ, along with Jake, and Rapper Rye Rye, showed up.

Several large cities across the nation celebrated Pride last weekend by hosting a number of fabulous parades and events.

The forty third annual Chicago Pride Parade attracted a record number of attendees who came out to enjoy all of the festivities. EDGE has the pics.

For two days Halsted Street enjoyed Pride Fest with a variety of booth vendors selling food, drinks, and novelties. Entertainment included pop singer Jojo, and Weather girl Martha Wash whose booming voice proclaimed that "It’s Raining Men" in Chitown.

From the much longer Pride parade down Halsted to the two-day Pride Fest to a bevy of assorted lectures, parties, plays and drag shows, the Windy City puts wind in its sails for Chicago Gay Pride.

Pack your pride and get ready to march to the beat of your own drum at the 2012 Pride Parades. From Los Angeles to Chicago, Boston and New York, almost every city in the U.S. will be offering an action-packed week of events to celebrate the LGBT community

Chicago Cardinal Francis George is defending his remarks comparing gays to the Klu Klux Klan because the city’s 2012 pride parade would pass a Catholic Church on a new route: "defending"; not apologizing.

From downtown high-rise buildings to neighborhood landmarks, a Chicago architecture group is offering free behind-the-scenes looks at dozens of locations citywide.

Back by popular demand and just in time for the holidays, Chicago Greeter will offer free, one-hour walks of N. Michigan Avenue and surrounding areas led by knowledgeable locals.

Chicago’s Pride Parade marched down the street with over 250 floats and organizations showing their true colors. There were a few bumps in the road when vandals broke in the night before to the garage where floats were being stored and slashed tires. For Sunday it was all rainbows and sunshine as the weather held out when rain was promised but never showed.