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Europride 2007 in Madrid Valladolid LGBTQ+ Pride 2024. Gay Pride in Valencia, 2019. The first gay organisation in Spain was the Spanish Homosexual Liberation Movement (MELH, Movimiento Español de Liberación Homosexual, Moviment Espanyol d'Alliberament Homosexual), which was founded in 1970 in Barcelona.
The following is a calendar of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) events. This list includes gay pride parades as well as events ranging from sporting events to film festivals, including celebrations such as Christopher Street Day.
Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages.. Most activities of Wiki Loves Pride take place between June and October, traditionally the months when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities around the world celebrate LGBT culture and history.
The 1977 Barcelona gay pride demonstration took place on 26 June of that year and was Spain's first great act of LGBT visibility. [1] [2] The gathering, organized by the newly minted Front d'Alliberament Gai de Catalunya (Gay Liberation Front of Catalonia) brought together almost five thousand people who, headed by a group of transvestites, peacefully paraded along La Rambla in Barcelona.
WorldPride is a series of international LGBT pride events coordinated by InterPride; they are hosted in conjunction with local LGBT pride festivals, with host cities selected via bids voted on during InterPride's annual general meetings.
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Spain's first pride parade was held in Barcelona on 26 June 1977, but was violently repressed by police, as official attitudes towards the LGBT community had not yet changed much since Franco's death in 1975. [159] However, Orgull de Barcelona ("Barcelona Pride") is nowadays a yearly event, and local politicians attend. The 2022 gathering drew ...
Sitges City Hall (1889) Monument to G. K. Chesterton (1976), by Manuel Muns. Sitges (Old Catalan for 'underground [grain] silos'; Catalan pronunciation:, Spanish:) is a town about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, renowned worldwide for its film festival, Carnival, and LGBT culture.