![30th anniversary of LGBTQ+ Bud Billiken Parade contingent celebrated.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Affinity-Community-Alliance/IMG_1911.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
Affinity Community Services is a Black-led, queer-led organization on Chicago’s Southside dedicated to social justice in Black LGBTQ+ communities. For 25 years, they have centered on Black queer women through community organizing, intergenerational programming, education, and healing justice.
Black LGBTQIA+ folks need to know there is a safe space for them on the Southside. (Specifically all women and nonbinary people)
![Affinity Community Alliance members walking in the Bud Billiken parade.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Affinity-Community-Alliance/Affinity-Community-Alliance-1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
![Event with live music.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Affinity-Community-Alliance/Affinity-Community-Alliance-2.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
![Peer group members.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Affinity-Community-Alliance/Affinity-Community-Alliance-3.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)