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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 ...
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.
There is also a gay beach, which is situated in the Maspalomas beach area around hut 7. Each year in the second week of May, one of the largest gay pride festivals in Europe is held in and around the Yumbo Centre. The 2011 event was attended by more than 100,000 people.
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.
"Straight pride" and "heterosexual pride" are analogies and slogans that contrast heterosexuality with homosexuality by copying the phrase "gay pride". [78] Originating from the culture wars in the United States, "straight pride" is a form of conservative backlash as there is no straight or heterosexual civil rights movement.
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 ...
This initial event was a galvanizing force for LGBT political activism, and argued by some to be the birth of the gay rights movement, in the United States and around the world. [104] [105] The world's first pride parade occurred on the 1st anniversary (28 June 1970). It's also known as International LGBT Pride Day. [106] Transgender History ...
EuroPride is a pan-European international event dedicated to LGBT pride, hosted by a different European city each year. The host city is usually one with an established pride event or a significant LGBT community. For up to a month, numerous sporting, artistic and human rights events are staged throughout the host city.