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A risqué Decadence costume Decadence participants parading down Royal Street. Southern Decadence is an annual, six-day, LGBTQ-based event held in New Orleans, Louisiana during Labor Day weekend, culminating in a parade through the French Quarter on the Sunday before Labor Day.
In 1970, the Gay Liberation Front of New Orleans was formed. In 1971, members of the Front presented a "Gay In" picnic in February in City Park. It would not become openly known as a "gay pride" event until 1978, when the pride events became the annual Gay Pride New Orleans. In 1972, the Tulane University Gay Students Union was established. [2]
The São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in Brazil is South America's largest event, and was listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest Pride parade in 2006 with 2.5 million people. [10] It broke the Guinness record in 2009 with four million attendees, [ 11 ] with similar numbers to at least 2016, [ 12 ] and up to five million attending in ...
Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 largest gay pride parades in the world. Gay pride parades are also called pride marches, pride events, and pride celebrations. It normally includes a series ...
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. Criteria for inclusion on this list are: Active: The event is currently active. Discontinued ...
The rainbow Pride flag, the most enduring symbol of the LGBTQ rights movement, was created by seamster Gilbert Baker nearly half a century ago for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June ...
The Krewe of Yuga was the first gay Carnival krewe in New Orleans, founded in 1958 by members of the gay community.Costumed parties to view the Krewe of Carrollton parade in Uptown were transformed into a krewe with a Queen reigning over the festivities, a ball captain, and sometimes a King.
Thailand kicked off its celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s Pride Month with a parade Saturday, as the country is on course to become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize marriage ...