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    ‘Pride should be a happy, welcoming place:’ Thousands celebrate Chicago parade amid anxiety over anti-LGBTQ politics

    by Vivian La, Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune Jun 25, 2023 4 minutes
    Participants on a float for the 52nd annual Chicago Pride Parade in Uptown on June 25, 2023.

    Mark Brandt, 26, and Wes Conkling, 30, got up at 7 a.m. CT to make it to Chicago from Aurora for Sunday’s Pride Parade.

    They sat on a corner waiting for the procession to start, holding hands.

    ”I love the oneness of it all,” said Brandt. “I come from a family that’s pretty homophobic, if I’m being honest. I haven’t always been able to be open with myself and who I am.”

    Brandt and Conkling said they are in a “throuple” but the third member of their relationship wasn’t there. Conkling met Brandt’s boyfriend on Tinder, and the three of them have been together since February.

    Conkling donned rainbow suspenders and had a

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