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We’re proud to be recognized for our work uplifting LGBTQ+ youth on Chicago’s West Side. Explore recent media coverage and press highlights that showcase how TaskForce is advancing health, equity, and opportunity in our community and beyond.
- Windy City Times
Taskforce Prevention celebrates its 35th anniversary: The Evolution of the Gay Black Revolution
To some, the organization is unheard of. But to most within the Black and Brown LGBTQ+ community, Taskforce Prevention has been a haven—a space to exist authentically even amid a time, a city and a Presidential administration that tells them their existence is a stain or a fallacy.
- Austin Weekly
TaskForce leads Pride Parade, a historic moment for West Side LGBTQ+ community
Celebrating 35 years of service, TaskForce Prevention and Community Services champions LGBTQ+ youth and community care
- WTTV | PBS
Inside Chicago’s Queer Ballroom Scene: ‘This Little Slice of Fantasy’
This year, some Chicagoans are leaning into the joyful aspect of Pride via the local ballroom scene — the subculture that was pioneered by Black and Latino queer and transgender people in the 1960s that bore the popular house dance style voguing.
- ABC 7 Chicago
Chicago Pride Parade organizers highlighting community organizations
2025 Chicago Pride Parade organizers are highlighting community organizations, like West Garfield Park's TaskForce Prevention and Community Services.
- Windy City Times
TaskForce to lead Chicago Pride Parade in historic first
For the first time in its 54-year history, the Chicago Pride Parade will be led by a local community group: TaskForce Prevention & Community Services, a Black-led LGBTQ+ youth health and wellness organization based on the West Side.
- CBS News
TaskForce Prevention and Community Services to be honored during 2025 Chicago Pride Parade
This year's Chicago Pride Parade will honor a West Side organization serving the community for over three decades.
- Block Club Chicago
‘Expect Vogue’ At The Start Of This Year’s Pride Parade As West Side Group Tapped To Lead
TaskForce Prevention & Community Services is the first-ever community group to lead the parade and plans to highlight their dedication to LGBTQ+ young people — and their Vogue School.
- Windy City Times
LGBTQ+ organizations statewide release letter condemning Trump anti-trans policies
AIDS Foundation Chicago, Pride Action Tank, Brave Space Alliance, Life is Work, TaskForce Prevention & Community Services, and over 20 additional community organizations across Illinois issued a letter of solidarity this morning “to push back on the hate and attempted erasure of trans and gender expansive communities by President Donald Trump, his administration, and Congressional Republicans.”
- Austin Weekly
TaskForce Prevention will front 2025 Pride Parade as Out Front Leader
West Side nonprofit to lead 2025 Chicago Pride Parade for the first time
