The procession turns east on Belmont and returns to Broadway before its final leg going east on Diversey Parkway.
It trails down Broadway until the street bisects, and then the parade travels down Halsted Street to Belmont Avenue. The parade marchers queue up along Montrose Avenue and Broadway, branching off from the starting point. With fewer entries in this year's parade - down to 150 - the parade should be shorter than before, although there have been unexpected delays in the past. While the city marks the parade as ending once the last entry crosses the starting line (making the official time relatively shorter), it takes about four hours for the final marcher to finish. In recent years, the parade has lasted anywhere from 2½ hours to nearly five hours. It kicks off at noon Sunday at Montrose and Broadway and progresses through Uptown and Lakeview. And although the parade is a celebration of the progress toward equality for people who are LGBTQ, it's also a reminder of the work that is left to advance the rights of still-marginalized people, particularly LGBTQ people of color, homeless youth and transgender people.
