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How to Use This List? Filter By Month. Filter By Year. Filter By Country. Filter By Event Type. Staff Attending [[StaffTypes]]. No results found. Your email has been sent. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy. Terms and Conditions. Message goes here Today, parade organizers say the annual San Francisco event is the largest gathering of its kind in the nation.
A group called the Beauty Queens poses, dressed up for a pride parade in s-style bathing costumes. Pastel, in a red glittering body suit, would lead the group in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on February 27, A gay rights activist wearing an elaborate costume, mask, and headdress walks on stilts beside other activists during the New York Gay Pride March, in In the decades that followed, more Pride events would emerge during that commemorative month of June, including the Big Gay Out music festival.
Three marchers pose at the Gay Pride Parade in London. By the s, London Pride events would attract millions of people. By the s, this parade, like the event in London, would attract millions of gay people and their allies.
Members of the Salvadoran gay community wear costumes at a pride parade in in San Salvador, El Salvador. A gay couple kiss on a motorcycle in front of the Colosseum during the 10th Gay Pride Parade in Rome, on July 3, That year's parade was part of a World Pride Week, and attracted thousands of marchers fighting for gay rights.
Thousands lined the streets of New York to see the annual parade, which, that year, focused on gay marriages. Some LBGTQ activists and community organizers have criticized the corporatization of Pride, as parades look to businesses for sponsorship to help with the financial demands of rapidly growing crowds.
Others question whether any deep-rooted action is behind the rainbow flags. Activists in New York and San Francisco have started their own separate parades to protest police and corporate involvement at the more established parades, given both historic and contemporary levels of disproportionate policing of Black and queer communities.
And, responding to the lack of diversity in the biggest pride events, organizers have started events to create a safe space for the more marginalized among the LGBTQ community. In the U. Black Pride , which started in as a small gathering organized by Black lesbians to come together and share experiences.
For others, living in environments where being gay risks state-sanctioned violence and even death, Pride events perform a function similar to that seen in places like New York in the s, as a vital lifeline. Recent years have seen communities in eSwatini, Trinidad and Tobago, and Nepal organize to hold their first Pride parades. Activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabageser organized the first Pride celebration in Uganda in , after realizing she had been to several Prides around the world but never in her own country, where long-running laws left over from the colonial era criminalize same-sex activity.
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