Pride parade
Many Pride events have been cancelled this year due to coronavirus, but that hasn’t stopped the spirit of the movement being felt by members of the LGBTQ community. For many of them, Pride is more than just a holiday in the calendar – it is a way of living every day in the pursuit of equal rights. Here we speak to LGBTQ people from around the world to find out what Pride means to them and why it remains so important.
The loss of physical Pride events to coronavirus has hit performers, businesses and community groups hard.
It's breezy out folks.
It was a weekend of joyful festivities in Leeds, Belfast and Brighton as they celebrated the LGBTQ community with Pride parades. Kylie Minogue performed for over 300 000 people in Brighton for their annual Pride parade and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar joined in at Belfast Pride.
On 28 June 1969, LGBTQ+ patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York City rebelled against raids by the police. That night spearheaded the gay liberation movement which led to the first Pride parades in some US cities in the summer of 1970. The movement grew and gradually became global. According to organisers, London's 2018 Pride parade was attended by over a million people.
Millions of Brazilians pushed back against the homophobic policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro at the first Pride parade since his election.
Furious critics on Twitter can't stand the hypocrisy.
Why aren’t we celebrating our history, how far we’ve come, and what these events mean to us?
It very much feels like we’re grappling with how we’re going to define ourselves going forward.
Organisers say they 'absolutely don’t condone' the messages distributed by activists.