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A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride.
Pride (also known as LGBTQ pride, LGBTQIA pride, LGBT pride, queer pride or gay and lesbian pride) [5] is the promotion of the rights, self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people as a social group.
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.
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 2017.
The 2015 Houston Pride Festival attracted 700,000 attendees, which set a new record. [ 4 ] The Houston Pride parade was expected to take place in the fall for the first time in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ; [ 5 ] however, due to the increasing cases in Houston the 2020 Pride Parade was replaced with a virtual rally. [ 6 ]
The NYC Pride March is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ community in New York City.The largest pride parade and the largest pride event in the world, the NYC Pride March attracts tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June, [4] [5] and carries spiritual and historical significance for the worldwide LGBTQIA+ community and its advocates.
A 1970s gay liberation protest in Washington, D.C.. The first pride marches were held in four US cities in June 1970, one year after the riots at the Stonewall Inn. [3] The New York City march, promoted as "Christopher Street Liberation Day", alongside the parallel marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, marked a watershed moment for LGBT rights. [4]
The 2012 San Francisco Pride Festival. The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration (formerly "International Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day", "Gay Freedom Day", and "Christopher Street West"), usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a pride parade and festival held at the end of June most years in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual ...