Pride Month Celebrations
Our neighborhood businesses are excited to celebrate Pride Month! Check out their special products and discounts, as well as nonprofits they are partnering with this month to support the LGBTQ+ community!
Brown Elephant - every dollar spent at Brown Elephant goes to support the Howard Brown Health Center, an LGBTQ focused health center in Chicago!
Barks N’ Rec is proud to be an LGBTQ+ owned business and your local Lakeview neighborhood pet store to create an inclusive and accepting environment for all your pet shopping needs!
Ellie Thompson + Co celebrates LOVE all Pride Month long with special pricing on custom, made to order, engagement rings and wedding bands for men and women. Enjoy the experience of expressing your love in a unique way with specially crafted rings. Sit down with award-winning designer Ellie Thompson at the Design Table in her Roscoe Village shop and explore your personal style and sentiments with diamonds, precious metals and fine gemstones. Design consultations by appointment. Please mention this offer when you call Ellie 312-403-8887 or email her elliethompsonco@gmail.com for more information or to book your time.
Eliza V’s Frames is offering 15% off all colorful frames for the month of June to celebrate PRIDE! Pride month is always a fun opportunity to get really creative with framing. We have frames in every color of the rainbow, and even a rainbow frame too! Plus, there's over 100 frames to choose from!
Five Keys Yoga is hosting a yoga workshop called “Queer as in ____” led by their wonderful teacher Colleen. They are also accepting donations for Brave Space Alliance. Find more information here.
Ashland Addison Florist is celebrating with a special bouquet called "Pride" that features a Pride flag! Purchase here.
The Guild has some great apparel to wear while celebrating Pride Month including their Color Burst tights, Boystown Spice Blend and Máara Crossbody Mochila Black! The Guild celebrates diversity and culture everyday but in support of the LGBTQ+ community they are planning a Fashion Shoot along with Big City Optical Southport on June 26 from 4-7pm that will kick off Summer Style! They will have representation from the LGBTQ+ community. It will be a colorful fun celebration that will take place just outside the Guild!
Let’s Walk Chicago has a Pride Collection! What better way to honor the greatest lesson we get to learn from our dogs… unconditional love for all humans. Show love, wear pride, and welcome diversity with Let’s Walk Chicago. Put your pride on display and shop their vibrant apparel, accessories and gifts today!
And Studio is so excited to celebrate Pride Month! Their instagram has been completely taken over by rainbows for the month and they are doing several giveaways as well as shouting out LGBTQ+ owned businesses on their feed each day. Finally, they are donating 20% of proceeds from their DIY Macrame Rainbow Kit to Chicago House, a foundation that provides housing, health, and employment to those impacted by HIV/AIDS as well as vulnerable LGBTQ+ youth.
Big League Pins can help you gear up for Pride month! Check out their Pride-themed pins and get 20% off any Pride retail order through June! Our in-house designs are always available for bulk or wholesale purchase. Are you or your company participating in Pride parades this year? These are a perfect hand-out and can even be assembled onto a backing card with your own messaging. Through July they’re offering FREE design services on any Pride pin project. Let's get started!
Cary Zartman created designs specifically for PRIDE. You can find them in his Etsy shop here, and $1 from every sale during June benefits the Trevor Project.
Lakeview Taproom is donating 25% of proceeds from sales of Hopewell Brewing Company’s Cruising Speed to the Trevor Project for the entire month of June, which provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ+ young people under 25. Join them this month in honoring pride while enjoying this delicious Chicago brew.
Bitter Pops has a very limited specialty keg from Duvel on this week called Hagedis BA Scotch Ale. They will be donating $200 of the revenue from this keg to True Colors United which implements innovative solutions to youth homelessness that focus on the unique experiences of LGBTQ+ young people. Duvel is proud to partner with True Colors United to not only drive awareness to their cause, but donate directly to their work of driving innovative solutions facing LGBTQ+ youth. They will also be tapping Gay IPA from MARZ Community Brewing and have a can feature of Shea Coul-ale from a partnership between Chicago's very own Shea Couleé and Goose Island.
Happy Trails CBD is so excited to be partnering with Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association in the sponsoring of this year's Chicago Pride Bowl XIII! CMSA is the largest not-for-profit gay and lesbian sports organization in the Midwest. CSMA offers recreational and competitive level play in a variety of athletic leagues throughout the year. Each year CMSA produces the annual Pride Bowl in Chicago, hosting over 1,000 athletes from across the country.
Mystery Street Recording Company is proud to have worked with Learning For Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, to record "Queer America", a podcast that provides an expansive history of LGBTQIA+ experiences that are often left out of textbooks. Listen to this powerful and informative podcast here.
Symetria Recovery Lakeview has a reflection space to celebrate pride. Patients are invited to interact with their installation by answering the question, "What does pride mean to you?", meanwhile learning LGBTQ+ histories in our clinic hallway that features LGBTQ+ movement icons and terminologies.
Annie Frances Styling wants to help you feel the love with go-to looks that make you want to get out and seize the day. Let Annie come in and pair 15 fresh looks out of what you already own! You will receive a customized webpage of your looks to easily access each time you're in need of a new outfit. Let's celebrate pride in style!
JJ Nate Real Estate & Mgmt is eternally grateful to their clients for allowing them to be of service. As a sign of his appreciation, Rick Batista, wants to give back to their clients and community by sharing part of his commission with his buyers and sellers. When he represents you in the purchase or sale of real estate, he will offer 10% of my net commission to you as a credit at closing or as a donation to your favorite nonprofit organization. His usual promotion is 10%, up to $1,000. However, for any sales transactions that originate during Pride month and through October 2021, I will share a FULL 10% of my net commission. Learn more here.
Liberty Mutual Insurance offers a multiple Employee Resource Groups, including Pride@Liberty. Pride’s mission is to provide a community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) and ally employees and to promote a global culture that ensures equality in the workplace. This month, Pride@Liberty has selected a few non-profit organizations to fundraise for this year. Each week, a different organization will be featured with blogs written by Pride Ambassadors to give more information. In addition, Liberty Torchbearers will donate as well by matching 50% of anyone’s donations during the spotlight week.