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+&PROUD  is a non-profit organization in Yangon, Myanmar, that organizes LGBTIQ  art and culture events. &PROUD is best known for their yearly Yangon Pride festival, which takes place over two weekends at the end of January. The festival includes &PROUD LGBTIQ Film Festival, which usually occurs during the second weekend. In addition, there is an 'On The Road' programme that takes film screenings to other towns, cities and universities around Myanmar.
+Since 2019, &PROUD runs an LGBTIQ community space in the Sanchaung Neighbourhood of Yangon as well as a mental health service called Yin Pwint Yar . The organizations receives funding from international donors such as embassies, UN organizations and INGOs.
+&PROUD was founded in 2014 by 3 co-founders, with the backing of Colors Rainbow . At the time, there were no large public LGBT events in Myanmar, and same-sex relations remain illegal in Myanmar to date.
+&PROUD's first activity was a queer photo exhibition with work from Myanmar and Vietnam. As the exhibition was a success and without any government interference, the first LGBT film festival was organised at the French Institute in Yangon in November 2014. Between 2014 and 2017 &PROUD continued to organise both a yearly film festival and photo exhibition, as well as film-making workshops and small screenings around Myanmar.
+In 2018 the organisation has received government permission to organise the festival at Thakhin Mya Park in downtown Yangon. That year, the festival was held over 2 weekends at the end of January, with the first weekend being a large Pride event in the park. In 2019 the festival changed its name to become Yangon Pride and the River Pride Boat Parade was added as a yearly event.
+The &PROUD Yangon LGBTQ Film Festival had its first edition from  November 14 to the 16 during the year of  2014 at the French Institute in Yangon. The festival showcases films on Asian LGBTI lives, and combines film screenings with debates, performances and parties.
+The 2015 edition was moved from November to January 2016 due to the 2015 Myanmar general election. It was hosted at the French Institute between January 28 to the 31 and attracted 3500 visitors over four days. For the third edition, the festival will return to the French Institute from January 26–29 in 2017. &PROUD Film Festival is a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance .
+Part of &PROUD's main activities is a yearly photo exhibition at Myanmar Deitta gallery that coincides with the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia  on May 17. In the run up to the exhibition, a photo competition is organised, welcoming photos that portrait the Myanmar LGBT community in a positive light. The week-long exhibition combines the best photos from the competition with an exhibition from a leading Southeast Asian photographer.
+In 2014, Vietnamese photographer Maika Elan's work "The Pink Choice" was exhibited. Elan's work was one of the winners in the World Press Photo 2013. The 2015 edition showed "Continuum" from Malaysian photographer kG Krishnan on Kuala Lumpur transgender women. The 2016 edition showcased work from Vlad Sohkin, titled "Being Gay in Papua New Guinea"

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+Trigger,Location,Occurs every,Start
+Gay Games,Various,4 Years,1982
+"International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia",Everywhere,May 17,2005
+National Coming Out Day,Everywhere,October 11,1988
+Transgender Awareness Week,Everywhere,Second week of November,2000
+Transgender Day of Remembrance,Everywhere,November 20,1999
+World OutGames,Various,4 Years,2006
+WorldPride,Various,6 then 2 then 3 years,2000
+Cape Town Pride,"Cape Town, Western Cape",February,2001
+Pride parades in South Africa,"Johannesburg, Gauteng",October,1990
+Mr Gay World South Africa,Gauteng,November,2009
+Out in Africa Film Festival,"Johannesburg, Gauteng and Cape Town, Western Cape",September/October,1994
+International Day Against Homophobia,Tunis,May,2016
+Beijing Queer Film Festival,Beijing,Varies; Usually between May — September,2001
+Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival,Hong Kong S.A.R.,September,1989
+Hong Kong Pride Parade,Hong Kong,November,2008
+Shanghai Pride,Shanghai,June,2009
+ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival,Shanghai,June,2015
+Shanghai Queer Film Festival,Shanghai,September,2017
+Bangalore Queer Film Festival,Bangalore,February,2008
+Bhopal Pride March,Bhopal,May,2017
+KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival,Mumbai,May,2010
+Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk,Kolkata,June,1999
+Chandigarh LGBT Pride Walk,"Chandigarh, Punjab",March,2017
+Tel Aviv Pride,Tel Aviv,June,1993
+IranPride,Iran,4th Friday of July,2010
+Aomori International LGBT Film Festival,Aomori,July,2006
+Pink Dot Okinawa,"Naha, Okinawa",July,2013
+Rainbow Reel Tokyo,Tokyo,July,1992
+Rainbow March,Sapporo,September (2nd Sunday),1996
+Beirut Pride,Beirut,May,2017
+Seksualiti Merdeka,Kuala Lumpur,August,2008
+&PROUD,Yangon,January,2014
+Nepal Pride Parade,Kathmandu,June 29,2019
+Queer Womxn Pride,Kathmandu,March 8,2019
+Mitini Nepal Pride Parade,Kathmandu,February 14,2005
+Blue Diamond Society Pride Parade,"Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar",Gai Jatra,2016
+National Gender and Sexual Minorities' Day (Nepal),Nepal,Puash 6 (Bikram Sambat),2015
+IndigNation,Singapore,August,2005
+Pink Dot,Singapore,May,2009
+Abhimani Film Festival,Colombo,June,2006
+Taiwan International Queer Film Festival (TIQFF),"Taipei City, Kaoshiung City and Taichung City",October,2014
+Taiwan Pride,Taipei,September/October,2003
+Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,Bangkok,June,2015
+EuroPride,Europe,Summer,1992
+EuroGames,Europe,July,2002
+Mr Gay Europe,Europe,August,2003
+Sápmi Pride,"Lapland: Kiruna and Östersund in Sweden; Karasjok, Kautokeino and Trondheim in Norway; Inari and Utsjoki in Finland",August/September,2014
+Vienna Pride,Vienna,July,1996
+European Lesbian* Conference,Vienna,October,2017
+Minsk Gay Pride,Minsk,October,1999
+Merlinka Queer Film Festival,Sarajevo,February,2013
+The Bosnian-Herzegovinian (BiH) Pride March,Sarajevo,September,2019
+Sofia Pride,Sofia,June,2008
+Zagreb Pride,Zagreb,June/July,2002
+Split Pride,Split,June,2011
+Queer Zagreb,Zagreb,April/May,2003-2012
+Queer Split,Split,TBA,2012
+L-Fest,Zagreb,November,2010
+Osijek Pride,Osijek,September,2014
+Mezipatra Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,Prague,November,2000
+Copenhagen Pride,Copenhagen,August,1996
+MIX Copenhagen - LesbianGayBiTrans Film Festival,Copenhagen,October,1985
+Aarhus Pride,Aarhus,June,2012
+Vinokino film festival,"Turku, Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu, Jyväskylä",Autumn,1992
+Helsinki Pride,Helsinki,June/July (week after Midsummer),2000; annually 2006
+In&Out,"Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur",April–May,2009
+Teddy Award,Berlin,February,1987
+Easter in Berlin,Berlin,March or April,1974
+Lesbian and Gay City Festival,Berlin,June,1993
+Berlin Pride,Berlin,June,1979
+Kreuzberg Pride,Berlin,June,1998
+Folsom Europe,Berlin,September,2003
+Hustlaball,Berlin,October,2003
+Cologne Pride CSD Köln,Cologne,July,1980
+Hamburg Pride,Hamburg,August,1980
+Athens Pride,Athens,early June,2005
+Budapest Pride,Budapest,June – July,1997
+Dublin Pride,Dublin,June,1983
+GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin,Dublin,late July–early August,1992
+International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival,Dublin,May,2004
+Mr Gay Ireland,Dublin,October,2005
+Alternative Miss Ireland,Dublin,March,1987
+Salento Pride,"Brindisi / Gallipoli, Puglia",June/August,2015
+Varese Pride,"Varese, Lombardy",June,2016
+Baltic Pride,Riga,May 15–17,2009
+Montenegro Pride,Podgorica,October 21,2013
+Merlinka Festival,Podgorica,May,2014
+Equality Parade,Warsaw,May or June,2001
+Białystok equality march,Białystok,July,2019
+Bucharest Pride,Bucharest,May/June,2004
+Gay Film Nights,Cluj-Napoca,April (previously September/October),2004
+Moscow Pride,Moscow,May,2006
+International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival «Side by Side»,Saint Petersburg,October,2008
+Merlinka Queer Film Festival,Belgrade,December,2009
+Madrid Pride,Madrid,First weekend of July,1977
+Walking against Homophobia and Transphobia,Ankara,May,2007
+BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival,"London, England",March,1986
+Bristol Pride,"Bristol, England",July,2010
+Doncaster Pride,"Doncaster, Yorkshire, England",August 16,2009
+Happy Valley Pride,"Hebden Bridge, England",2nd week in August (7 day festival),2016
+Huddersfield Pink Picnic,"Castle Hill, Huddersfield",July,1986
+Pride in Hull,"Hull, England",July,2001
+Leeds Pride,"Leeds, England",First Sunday in August,2004
+Lincolnshire Pride,"Lincoln, England",July,2006
+Liverpool Pride,"Liverpool, England",August 7,2010
+Sparkle Weekend,"Manchester, England",July,2005
+SuperGay,"Middlesbrough, England",September,2007
+Mr Gay UK,"Blackpool, England",May–July,1993
+Mr Gay Wales,"Cardiff, Wales",May–July,2005
+National Student Pride,"London, United Kingdom",March,2005
+Northern Pride,"Newcastle upon Tyne, England",July 17,2010
+Nottingham Pride,"Nottingham, England",July,1999
+Outsiders LGBT Film Festival,"Liverpool, England",Monthly (Main festival in October),2004
+Oxford Pride,"Oxford, England",First Saturday in June,2003
+Pride Blackpool,"Blackpool, England",May/June,2006
+Pride Canterbury,"Canterbury, Kent, England",June,2016
+Pride in Newry,"Newry, Northern Ireland",August/September,2011
+Pride In Surrey,"Surrey, England",August 10,2019
+Swansea Pride,"Swansea, Wales",Last Saturday in June,2009
+UK Black Pride,"London, England",August,2006
+GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival,"London, England",November,2006
+AIDS Walk New York,"New York City, New York",May,1986
+Atlanta Pride,"Atlanta, Georgia",October,1971
+Augusta Pride,"Augusta, Georgia",June,2010
+Capital Pride,"Washington, D.C.",June,1975
+Capital City Pride,"Olympia, Washington",June,1991
+Chicago Pride Parade,"Chicago, Illinois",June,1970
+Cincinnati Pride,"Cincinnati, Ohio",June,1973
+Columbus Pride,"Columbus, Ohio",June 18–20,1981
+Come Out With Pride,"Orlando, Florida",October,2004
+Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival,"Hartford, Connecticut",May–June,1988
+Dallas Black Pride,"Dallas, Texas",October,1996
+D.C. Black Pride,"Washington, D.C.",May,1991
+Dinah Shore Weekend,"Palm Springs, California",March/April,1987
+East-Central Minnesota Pride,"Pine City, Minnesota","June 2, 2019 (15th Anniv.)",2005
+Gay8 Festival,"Miami ""Little Havana,"" Florida",February,2016
+Gay Days at Walt Disney World,"Orlando, Florida",June,1991
+Heritage of Pride,"New York City, New York",June,1969
+Houston Pride,"Houston, Texas",June,1979
+Indy Pride Festival,"Indianapolis, Indiana",June,1988
+International Mister Leather,"Chicago, Illinois",May,1979
+International Ms. Leather,"San Francisco, California",April,1987
+JAX Pride,"Jacksonville, Florida",October,1978
+Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride,"Long Beach, California",May,1983
+Nashville Pride,"Nashville, Tennessee",June 20,1988
+National Queer Arts Festival,San Francisco,June,1998
+New York City Pride,"New York City, New York",June,1969
+Pride Corpus Christi,"Corpus Christi, Texas",June,2017
+Pride Festival of Central PA,"Harrisburg, Pennsylvania",Last weekend in July,1992
+QFest,"Houston, Texas",September,1997
+QueerBomb Dallas,"Dallas, Texas",June,2014
+Queens Pride Parade,"New York City, New York",June,1993
+Rainbow Pride of West Virginia,"Charleston, West Virginia",June,1996
+Reaching Out LGBT MBA & Business Student Conference,Multiple Locations,October,1999
+Reel Affirmations LGBT Film Festival,"Washington, D.C.",October,1992
+Reno Pride,"Reno, Nevada",August,1997
+Rhode Island Pride Festival & Parade,"Providence, Rhode Island",June,1976
+San Francisco Pride,"San Francisco, California",June,1970
+San Francisco Transgender Film Festival,"San Francisco, California",November,1997
+Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,"Albuquerque, New Mexico and Santa Fe, New Mexico",October,2003
+Twin Cities Pride,"Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota",June,1972
+Utah Pride Festival,"Salt Lake City, Utah",June,1977
+White Party Week,"Miami, Florida",November,1985

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+AIDS Walk New York is an annual fundraising walkathon that benefits Gay Men's Health Crisis and over 50 other local AIDS service organizations.  Founded in 1986, it is now the largest walkathon in the world, and the largest AIDS fundraiser in the world by participation. In 2008 the event had 45,000 participants raising $7.4 million.
+The AIDS Walk event is held in Central Park annually.
+In the initial 1986 AIDS Walk, over $700,000 was raised by 6,000 participants who completed the 10-kilometer  course that began and ended at Lincoln Center, where Mayor Ed Koch and entertainer Peter Allen greeted the participants.
+The following year, 1987, twice as many participants raised more than twice as much money , an amount the event's co-producer Craig Miller, who hoped to reach the $1 million mark, called "incredible." Harvey Fierstein and Lynn Redgrave joined Mayor Koch at the starting line in Damrosch Park.
+In 1988, walking from Lincoln Center up Riverside Drive and down Central Park West, approximately 16,000 participants raised nearly $2.5 million for GMHC's services to people with AIDS.
+Prior to the 1989 AIDS Walk, New York City Ballet stars Heather Watts and Jack Soto used their pre-performance time at Lincoln Center's New York State Theater to solicit contributions for the event, whose opening ceremony was hosted by Harvey Fierstein and Tony Randall. That year, the event raised $3 million.
+The 1990 AIDS Walk, which took in $3.8 million, was the second year that part of the proceeds from the event was distributed to groups other than GMHC; among the more than a dozen organizations receiving a total of $600,000 were the Women's AIDS Resource Network, God's Love We Deliver, and People of Color in Crisis.
+The following year, in what was the then-largest, most successful AIDS fundraiser ever, AIDS Walk New York raised $4.15 million even as incoming GMHC board president Jeff Soref said that the number of AIDS patients was "growing so quickly that no community-based organization can keep pace" and urged the 26,000 walkers to petition for more government-based funding.
+Throughout the mid-1990s, despite heavy rainfalls, a change in the march route to begin and end in Central Park, and an increasing number of local AIDS Walks in the city's suburbs and elsewhere, AIDS Walk New York continued to raise record funds  and attract more participants, including more high school students.
+Performer and activist Michael Callen introduced his song "Love Don't Need a Reason" at the first AIDS Walk New York in 1986 and continued to sing the song before each AIDS Walk every year through 1993. At the 1994 AIDS Walk, following Callen's death, Holly Near and Marsha Melamet sang the song in his stead.
+In 1997, following the introduction of protease inhibitors for AIDS treatment, Mark Robinson, executive director of GMHC, noted that it had become harder for the group to drum up support for AIDS Walk New York than it had been, saying, "Too many celebrities and journalists have declared the crisis over. But it's not over." Nevertheless, 35,000 walkers participated that year, and the next year, 1998, saw a record 38,000 AIDS Walkers help GMHC reach its $4 million funding goal.
+By May 2000, AIDS Walk New York began to settle into a pattern of about 30,000 participants and $4 million raised. It had become one of thousands of AIDS Walks, albeit one in the New York City, which along with San Francisco, was where AIDS activism had begun two decades before. Within the city, other boroughs, neighborhoods, and communities began holding their own AIDS Walks, such as the AIDS Walk Caribbean in Brooklyn.
+In 2002, as AIDS became a treatable illness, interest in all AIDS-related events began to wane, GMHC decided to use celebrities like John Leguizamo, Madonna, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric McCormack and Ice-T to promote the AIDS Walk on posters throughout New York City even though the celebrities would not actually be participating. The advertising worked, and more than 42,000 participants  came to Central Park for the 2002 AIDS Walk.
+During the opening ceremony of the 2006 AIDS Walk New York, Marjorie J. Hill, the interim president of GMHC, noted that 25 years had passed since public health officials first recognized the then-unidentified epidemic among gay men. That year's event was emceed by Naomi Watts and Queer Eye stars Carson Kressley and Ted Allen and raised about $6.5 million.
+To commemorate a "quarter-century of collective loss, struggles and triumphs in an ongoing commitment to end the AIDS epidemic," GMHC established the "Alliance 25" Principal Sponsorship of AIDS Walk New York 2007, consisting of groups and individuals making a $25,000 commitment for the event.
+The 2009 AIDS Walk, described as "massive" in the New York Daily News, raised $5.6 million, an amount Craig Miller called impressive "in the midst of this historically difficult recession." The 2010 event raised even more funds and featured "a cascade of celebrities" and more than 45,000 participants. The opening ceremonies for the 30th annual AIDS Walk included an award by GMHC to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his plan to drastically reduce the number of AIDS cases.
+On Sunday, July 19, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that year's AIDS Walk New York took place as virtual event in partnership with AIDS Walk San Francisco billed as the largest, single-day AIDS fundraising effort in the world. AIDS Walk: Live at Home was livestreamed at several websites and also broadcast on KGO-TV. The event featured numerous celebrities, including Anne Hathaway, Bette Miller and Matt Bomer.
+The AIDS Walk featured prominently in "The Sponge" , a season 7 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. In the episode, Cosmo Kramer participates in the AIDS Walk, but is harassed by fellow walkers for refusing to wear the AIDS ribbon.
+Official website
+This New York City–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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1	+ Aarhus Pride is a pride parade in Aarhus, Denmark and the largest Danish event focused on LGBT issues outside Copenhagen. The first event was held in 2012 and has been repeated every year since. It is managed and controlled by private individuals from the LGBT community and supported with funds from the city of Aarhus. In 2017, about 6,000 people took part in the 3.5-kilometre-long parade with floats and flags.
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3	+ The parade is held every year on the first Saturday of June and lasts from morning to late night. The first event is the parade itself which moves through the historical Latin Quarter before it ends back at Vester Allés Kaserne where a festival is held until evening. The festival includes various sports like volleyball, badminton, foosball etc. on the green areas in front of the Concert Hall next to the Officers Square and a children's area with bouncy castle and playground. Local and national LGBT associations, organizations, companies and political parties man booths with information and food and drink. Various activities take place on the small stage located centrally next to the Aarhus Concert Hall. DJs plays music.
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1	+ Abhimani Film Festival, also known as Celluloid Rainbows, is an annual LGBTIQ film festival held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was established in 2006, and is the only LGBTIQ film festival in Sri Lanka. The 2018 Festival begins on 18 June 2018.
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3	+ The Abhimani Film Festival , screens local and international feature and short length movies from around the world. It is the oldest LGBT Film Festival in the South Asian region and the only LGBT Film Festival in Sri Lanka. Abhimani also aims to educate all communities on daily issues faced by LGBT people.
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+The Alternative Miss Ireland  was an annual gay event which took place in Dublin, Ireland, on the Sunday closest to St. Patrick's Day, 17 March. It occurred over three-and-a-half hours and featured a pastiche of the beauty pageant rounds inspired by Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World, with day-wear, swimwear and evening-wear rounds. It is commonly shortened to AMI, both as its initials and a wordplay on the French for "friend". It began in 1987 and ended in 2012.
+The event promotional material states: "Alternative Miss Ireland  is an annual beauty pageant that is open to men, women and animals. It is also a non-profit collective dedicated to raising money for Irish HIV/AIDS organisations ."
+It features on the front cover each year of the March issue of Gay Community News magazine and is the highlight of Ireland's calendar of gay-themed events. Coverage by mainstream news media is muted, possibly because it clashes with reporting of St. Patrick's Day, with occasional pieces in The Irish Times, and a documentary A Bit of the Other commissioned by RTÉ television.
+The first contest was held in Sides nightclub on Dame Street on 1 April 1987, followed by a hiatus until it began again in its present form during the mid-1990s. Upon recommencement, it was held in The Red Box, POD for the first few years. It switched to the Olympia Theatre in 2000 to accommodate its increasing popularity. It is a fund-raising event for HIV/AIDS charities such as Cáirde and St. James's Hospital. Although open to any entrant , it features mainly gay-themed entrants and is commonly known as Gay Christmas since its host, Panti, used that term regularly in her opening routines.
+It features entries from heats around Ireland including Alternative Miss Cork, Alternative Miss Limerick, Alternative Miss Philippines  and the rest of the approximately ten contestants enter directly.
+In 1998, Miss Veda Beaux Reves, who had just lost first place to Miss Tampy Lilette, allegedly threw her Golden Briquette trophy at the judges in a tantrum. At the 2007 contest, the host Panti was surprised by a message from her hero Dolly Parton. It is traditional that the previous year's winner does a new performance after the interval, as Miss Heidi Konnt did in 2006.
+There is a large production team involved, known as the Alternative Miss Ireland Family. It was reported in October 2011 that the final pageant would take place in 2012. One organiser said, "people have less time to pull everything together".
+Critic Fintan Walsh has written about the contest in the article 'Homleysexuality and the 'Beauty' Pageant' .

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+The Aomori International LGBT Film Festival  has been held annually in Aomori Prefecture since July 2006 and focuses on diverse representations of gender. It is held at the five-story Auga in the city of Aomori.
+2006 , from July 29
+2007 , from July 21
+2008  from July 27
+2009  from July 25
+2010  from July 3
+2011  from July 3
+2012
+2013  from July 20
+2014  from July 13

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+– in Europe – in the European Union   –
+Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender  rights in Greece have evolved significantly since the early 21st century, establishing it as one of the most liberal countries in Southern Europe. Discrimination has become increasingly less common in the country as of late, although LGBT people in Greece may still face social challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Despite this, Greek public opinion on homosexuality is generally regarded as culturally liberal, with same-sex unions being legally recognised since 2015.
+Both male and female same-sex sexual activity have been legal in Greece since 1951, and anti-discrimination laws in employment were enacted in 2005. Since then, anti-discrimination laws have been extended to other spheres including gender identity. Hate speech and hate crime legislation is one of the most rigid and comprehensive in Europe. In 2015, civil unions  were legalised for same-sex couples, making households headed by same-sex couples eligible for many, but not all, of the legal protections and rights available to married opposite-sex couples. In 2017, transgender people were granted the right to have their gender identity recognized and change their legal sex without having to undergo surgical alteration of their genitals in order to have key identity documents changed. In February 2018, a county court in Greece granted a non-binary person the right to a gender-neutral name. In May 2018, the Greek Parliament passed a law granting same-sex couples the right to foster care children.
+Gay culture is vibrant in the capital of Athens, particularly in the gay neighbourhood of Gazi, in Thessaloniki and some of the Greek islands. With Greece being one of Europe's most popular LGBT tourist destinations, many establishments catering for the LGBT community can be found in islands such as Mykonos, which is known worldwide for the gay and lesbian scene. There are four LGBT pride parades held annually, in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras and Heraklion, the capital of the island of Crete. The largest of them, the Athens Pride, saw record participation in 2015, and the attendance of many public figures including the President of the Hellenic Parliament and the Mayor of Athens.
+According to a 2018 report carried out by ILGA-Europe, which assesses LGBT rights in European countries, Greece achieved the highest improvements among the 49 countries in the legal and policy situation of LGBT people between the years 2014 and 2018, with an overall score of 52%.
+Male homosexual practice was decriminalized in 1951. Lesbians were not mentioned or acknowledged in the Greek Criminal Code. Article 347 of the Penal Code outlawed male prostitution and provided for a higher age of consent of 17 for male homosexual acts. However, this provision was abolished by Article 68 of the Law 3456 of 2015 , effectively resulting in equalization of the age of consent and the legalization of male prostitution, subject to existing laws on the regulation of prostitution.
+The age of consent in Greece is 15, as specified by Article 339, as well as Articles 337, 348B of the Greek Penal Code. In 2015, along with the legalization of same-sex civil unions, Article 347, which provided a further prohibition of seducing a male under 17 if the actor is a male adult, was repealed, therefore equalising the age of consent for homosexual acts.
+There are also several other prohibitions regarding positions of authority and acts of lewdness, as specified by Articles 342 and 343. Furthermore, there is a close-in-age exemption of 3 years age difference for indecent acts between persons younger than 15.
+The Greek Constitution provides no definition of marriage. However, it does stipulate that, like motherhood and childhood, it must be under the protection of the State.
+The former New Democracy-led Government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis was opposed to same-sex marriage. While it had introduced legislation that offered several rights to unmarried couples, this explicitly excluded same-sex couples.
+The National Human Rights Committee proposed a registry that would cover both same-sex couples and unmarried opposite-sex ones and the Greek group OLKE announced its intention to sue Greek municipalities that refused to marry same-sex couples.
+The Greek Government under George Papandreou, leader of Panhellenic Socialist Movement , was preparing legislation for same-sex registered partnerships, which, however, never took place, as LGBT groups believed that they were going to be insufficient.
+In November 2013, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the plaintiffs in the case Valianatos and Others vs. Greece and condemned the exclusion of same-sex couples from the option to contract cohabitation agreements, a non-marital relationship registration scheme established in 2008 for opposite-sex couples. The restriction of cohabitation agreements solely to opposite-sex couples was thus deemed non-convincing and the state was obliged to give a 5,000 euro compensation to each one of the plaintiffs.
+Although there was no official recognition of same-sex couples at that time, a 1982 law that legalized civil marriage between "persons", without specifying gender, acted as a test-case for same-sex marriage. On 3 June 2008, the Mayor of Tilos, Anastasios Aliferis, married two same-sex couples, two lesbians and two gay men, citing the legal loophole. He was heavily criticized by clergymen of the Church of Greece, which in the past had also opposed the introduction of civil marriage. Justice Minister Sotirios Hatzigakis declared the Tilos marriages "invalid" and Supreme Court prosecutor Georgios Sanidas warned Mayor Aliferis of the legal repercussions of his "breach of duty", but he said he had "no intention of annulling the marriages". In May 2009, the marriage was officially annulled by the authorities.
+Ιn December 2015, the Greek Parliament reintroduced a law draft that would expand cohabitation agreements to same-sex couples. Reactions varied from positive to negative, with many members of the Greek Church condemning the proposition. Most notably, Archbishop Ieronymos called homosexuality "a diversion from life", metropolitan Anthimos declared that "Not even animals have such dispositions", metropolitan Seraphim said "Pawns of the international Zionism! The masculofeminine is being created!" whereas metropolitan Amvrosios stated "Spit on them! They're disgraceful! They're nature's abominations!" The latter, paired with Amvrosios' initiative to have the bells of the churches in his metropolis ring mournfully, stirred up much controversy, the result of which was a kiss-in protest by two LGBT activists dressed up in clergy clothes in front of the building of the Athens metropolis.
+Finally, on 23 December, the draft concerning the enriched and improved cohabitation agreement legislation was passed  with a significant absence of 51 MPs, making Greece the 26th European country to adopt same-sex recognition laws. The largest groups to oppose the cohabitation agreement bill were the Communist Party of Greece, Golden Dawn and the Greek Orthodox Church. Simultaneously, the anachronistic article 347, criminalizing acts of "unnatural lewdness" between men was abolished, equalizing the age of consent for sex between men . Furthermore, Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, while debating the law in Greek Parliament, issued an apology to the LGBT community for the years of discrimination they had faced. Civil marriage between same-sex individuals is still not permitted. Same-sex couples are not allowed to adopt children as well.
+In December 2016, the Greek Parliament passed a bill expanding the rights of same-sex couples and ensuring equal protection in workplaces regardless of gender, religion or sexual orientation. Nevertheless, joint adoption, IVF access for lesbians and same-sex marriage have not yet been legalised.
+Same-sex marriage is not currently legal in Greece, even though some government officials are in favour of it and have proposed legalization. In 2018, the European Court of Justice ruled that married same-sex couples have the same residency rights as married opposite-sex couples under EU law, even if same-sex marriage is not legal in that particular EU member state. The ruling affects all EU countries, which are obliged to abide by it, including Greece.
+As of 2021, opposition parties of the Hellenic Parliament, SYRIZA, Movement for Change  and MeRA25, support the legalisation of same-sex marriages.
+On 17 April 2018, a bill, titled the Child Adoption Law , aimed at overhauling and simplifying the country's child adoption legislation, which has been criticized in the past as being overly bureaucratic and ineffective and for its extremely slow procedures, was submitted to the Greek Parliament. The bill, and specifically Article 8, also grants same-sex couples the right to foster children. In a debate at a parliamentary committee, the bill's Article 8 was supported by the vast majority of the country's agencies, organizations, and experts, with the exception of the conservative Orthodox Church of Greece, which voiced its opposition to it. The bill as a whole, including Article 8, was voted "on principle" by the committee on early May 2018, with the support of Syriza, the Independent Greeks and The River. New Democracy , Democratic Alignment  and the Union of Centrists  abstained, whereas Golden Dawn voted against it, It was due for final ratification by Parliament. MPs from every political party of the Greek political spectrum expressed their support for Article 8 of the law, which concerns foster care for same-sex couples, with ND and DISI softening their initial hardline position towards it and announcing that any of their MPs are free to support the bill once it arrives at the parliamentary session for final ratification.
+Eventually, the bill, including its Article 8, was ratified by the Greek Parliament on 9 May 2018, with 161 MPs voting in support and 103 against, making Greece the newest EU country, after Portugal in 2016, to legalize foster care for same-sex couples and the first country in Southeastern Europe to do so.
+Since 2005, discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace has been prohibited.
+While there has been considerable legal progress, conservative social mores still hold some influence and the Orthodox Church has often denounced homosexuality as a sin and "defect of human nature."
+Greek law protects gender identity. According to Law 3896 of 2010 , discrimination on the basis of gender identity is considered equal to discrimination on the basis of sex and thus all laws regarding the latter also cover the former.
+In September 2014, the Law Against Racism and Xenophobia  was amended. The changes stipulated that hate speech and violence against LGBT individuals or groups would be punished with imprisonment for three months to three years and a fine of 5,000 to 20,000 euros. If the actions have led to a crime, the penalty is increased by six months more imprisonment and an additional fine of 15,000 to 30,000 euros. If the final imprisonment exceeds one year, then the convict loses his/her political rights for one to five years. If the offender is a public worker, then they are punished with six months to three years imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 25,000 euros; if a crime is committed, they are punished with a fine of 25,000 to 50,000 euros. If the offender was committing the above representing an organisation or company, they are also fined. Entities in the public domain are, however, excluded from this last rule. This has led to criticism since the churches are also legal entities of the public domain, thereby excluding them from any consequences after the conviction of a priest of theirs. Furthermore, public prosecutors are given the freedom to move against the offenders even without a lawsuit from the victims, and if the victims file a lawsuit, they are allowed to do it free of charge, in contrast to the common practice.
+Since 24 December 2015, Greece prohibits discrimination and hate crimes based on sex characteristics, which are among the strongest laws on the subject in Europe. On 2 December 2016, further anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation, gender and religion in the workplace were passed by the Hellenic Parliament in a 201–21 vote with 5 abstaining and 73 absent. PinkNews described the law as one of the most rigid prohibitions of hate speech and hate crime in Europe.
+Since October 2017, to change one's legal gender in Greece, the legal requirements are a forced divorce  and a court order.
+On 10 October 2017, the Greek Parliament passed, by a comfortable majority, the Legal Gender Recognition Law , which grants transgender people in Greece the right to change their legal gender freely by abolishing any conditions and requirements, such as undergoing any medical interventions, sex reassignment surgeries or sterilisation procedures to have their gender legally recognized on their IDs. The bill grants this right to anyone aged 17 and older. However, even underaged children between the age of 15 and 17 have access to the legal gender recognition process, but under certain conditions, such as obtaining a certificate from a medical council. The bill was opposed by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, the Communist Party of Greece, Golden Dawn and New Democracy.
+The Legal Gender Recognition Law followed a 20 July 2016 decision of the County Court of Athens, which ruled that a person who wants to change their legal gender on Registry Office files is no longer obliged to already have undergone sex reassignment surgery. This decision was applied by the Court on a case-by-case basis.
+In February 2018, the Marousi County Court ruled in favor of Jason-Antigone Dane's request to have their male birth name, Jason, changed on Registry Office files to a gender-neutral one by adding the female name Antigone next to it. However, while the court did rule in favor of the person's request for displaying a gender-neutral name on their ID, it decided against having their legal gender entry changed from male to third gender, citing the "lack of a relevant institutional framework for individuals not classified in a distinct case of a non-dual gender identity " in Greece, although the 2017 Legal Gender Recognition Law does state that "the person  has the right to the recognition of his or her gender identity as an element of his or her personality". The plaintiff's lawyer announced that they will appeal part of the ruling to a higher court .
+In June 2018, a Greek court ruled that foreign transgender people, including refugees and immigrants, also have the right to the recognition of their gender identity, marking the first time that this right is extended beyond the definition of the 2017 Legal Gender Recognition Law, which restricted this right to Greek citizens only.
+On 23 December 2016, the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs announced that, starting from 2017, a thematic week would be taking place every second semester of the school year. The thematic week seeks to inform students and their parents about, among others, issues such as sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, homophobia and transphobia. The Ministry will also consider enhancement of the thematic week in the future.
+Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals are allowed to serve openly in the Hellenic Armed Forces.
+On 4 December 2021, the trans women detainees, upon their request, are relocated to correctional facilities for women, for the first time.
+On 17 March 2021, by decision of the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a committee was set up with the aim of drafting a National Strategy for the Equality of LGBTQI+ people in Greece. The Committee comes as a response to the European Commission's first ever strategy to protect the rights of LGBTIQ people in the European Union and its call to Member States to build on existing best practices and develop their own action plans on LGBTIQ equality on 12 November 2020. The Committee consists of academics, representatives of the civil society, representatives of the government and as a chairperson was appointed Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, a former President of the European Court for Human Rights.
+Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who was elected as the first female President of Greece on 22 January 2020 by the Hellenic Parliament, is a supporter of LGBT rights. Alexis Patelis, the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's Chief Economic Adviser, came out in an interview, saying: "The Prime Minister has met my husband, I have met his wife", marking the first time that a high-ranking official came out publicly in Greece. Also, Nicholas Yatromanolakis is the first openly gay person to hold a ministerial rank in the Government of Greece, assuming office in the January 2021 government reshuffle.
+Athens has a large number of LGBT associations and a developing gay village in the Gazi, Athens neighborhood. A pride parade event, the "Athens Pride" and an international Gay and Lesbian film festival, the "Outview", are held annually.
+There is also a large gay scene in Thessaloniki with gay/lesbian bars/clubs and several friendly mixed venues, and several LGBT organisations. In June 2012, the city got its own annual pride event . One of the most notable events in Thessaloniki, concerning LGBT rights, is the attempt to raise a 20m long banner, urging people to boycott the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, on the city's most famous landmark, the White Tower. The attempt was quickly stopped by the local police, but the event was advertised in online media.
+Greece is one of Europe's most popular LGBT tourist destinations, particularly its largest cities Athens and Thessalonica as well as several of its islands. The gay scene of Mykonos is well-known, with many establishments catering for the LGBT community. Lesbos also is famous internationally for its lesbian scene in Eressos.
+The first attempt to organize a pride parade in Greece was made by AKOE  on 28 June 1980 in Athens, defining it as a political event. It was repeated two years later at the Zappeion Mansion. Numerous similar events took place over the following years, and in different locations. In 1992, 1994 and 1995, the events were held at Strefi Hill, whereas in 1996 and 1998 they were organized at the Pedion tou Areos. In 1998, it took place in an enclosed area. In Thessaloniki, the first corresponding event was organized by OPOTH  in the 1990s.
+Since then, LGBT events have been held in other cities, including in Heraklion, Patras, Santorini, Corfu and Mykonos. Thessaloniki was selected in 2017 to host EuroPride 2020.
+The Athens Pride is an annual LGBT pride parade and festival held every June in the centre of Athens. It has been held 14 times:
+Thessaloniki staged its annual pride event for the first time in 22–23 June 2012, following Mayor Boutaris's promise to back a public LGBT event in the city. The first Thessaloniki Pride festival enjoyed massive popular support from the city, its periphery and the region, which was a heavy blow for the city's metropolitan Anthimos, who had called believers to react.
+One year later, in one of his announcements just a few days before the pride event of 2013, he stated that, the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki would once again have to tolerate the sad and unacceptable festival of the homosexuals who want to "celebrate their sickness in a carnival sort of way". He also asked parents to keep their children and themselves away from "such pointless and unnatural celebrations". However, many families were present and the two-day festival ended in a festive atmosphere with many parties, galleries and celebrations all around the city. The 2nd Thessaloniki Pride was dedicated to freedom of any kind, including the freedom of gender expression.
+In 2014, Thessaloniki was the European Youth Capital and the 3rd Thessaloniki Pride was included to its official programme. Accordingly, it was dedicated to LGBT youth and their families. By general assessment the 2014 pride event was a major success, with the participation of 10,000 people in the parade, along with the Mayor Yiannis Boutaris and a block of diplomats. Some described it as best LGBT pride festival that Thessaloniki has ever had.
+That year, vigil masses took place along with gatherings of believers, where priests made an outcry over the "desecration of holy Thessaloniki", the "imposition of Islam and homosexuality by the New World Order, the gay pride events which are part of a Western conspiracy, the "appointment of homosexual male and female bishops and protested over the victory of Conchita Wurst at the Eurovision Song Contest. Metropolitan Anthimos once again made similar comments about it in an interview, deeming it as "disgraceful", "challenging", "a perversion of the human existence", adding that the Church orders to "Not give what is holy to dogs". He also claimed that the use of the term "festival" for the event is erroneous.
+The festival has been held six times:
+The first pride parade in Crete was held on 26–27 June 2015 in Heraklion, becoming the island's first "Festival for Gender and Sexuality Liberation Visibility".
+The first pride parade in Patras, the third biggest city in Greece, was held in 2016.
+Responding to government proposals in 2008 to introduce legal rights for cohabiting couples, Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens, the leader of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, suggested that "There is a need to change with the time". It is unclear, however, whether this view applied to same-sex couples, particularly as the Church has previously opposed gay rights in general and civil union laws in particular.
+Following government talks in November 2013 regarding the legalisation of civil unions for homosexual couples, the Metropolitan of Piraeus Seraphim voiced vehement opposition against it, threatening that he can and will excommunicate any MPs who should vote for it. Moreover, he added that the bill "legalises the corruption of the human existence and physiology and cements the psychopathological diversion that is homosexuality". Additionally, he mentioned that such movements constitute "significant offenses of public decency" by sending out messages of "perverted sexual behaviours" to young people that "torpedo the foundations of family and society".
+In August 2014, during discussions about the long-awaited vote for an anti-racism bill, several Metropolitans voiced their opposition to it due to certain articles pertinent to the criminalization of hate speech against, among others, homosexuals, with increased penalties for civil servants  who engage in it during their duties. The Metropolitan of Piraeus Seraphim accused the Greek PM, Antonis Samaras, of "selling his soul for a few extra months in office", criticized the draft law for "the introduction of other sexual orientations and other gender identities", the fact that the "psychopathological aversion and the inelegant mimicking of the other sex" would be protected by Greek law and compared homosexuality with paedophilia and bestiality.
+The Metropolitan of Gortyna Ieremias, citing Bible passages, called homosexuals "dogs", argued that under the new bill "several prophets and Saints would be regarded as racists", and characterized it as a "horrible and deplorable" law while adding a homophobic word play. At the same time, the Metropolitan of Konitsa Andreas rejected the bill under the claim that it aims to "cover the perversion that is homosexuality". The religious reaction eventually resulted in Antonis Samaras accepting the church's objections and not including articles relative to the protection of homosexuals in the bill. Moreover, the PM reassured the religious leaders who disapproved of the bill that, "as long as he is in office, there's no way the parliament will expand civil unions to same-sex couples".
+In September 2014, provisions on the criminalization of hate speech towards LGBT individuals were approved. The criminalization of LGBT-oriented hate speech led to the furious reaction of Metropolitan Seraphim who called the law "an oppression of the Greek Justice system" and "the cancellation of the freedom of speech" as imposed by "the nationalistic system and the New World Order instructors".
+Several issues have been raised about the Greek media and their frequently discriminatory attitude towards LGBT individuals such as through the use of censorship, something partly attributed to the regulation authority, or Greek National Council for Radio and Television . Below is a list of some homophobic/transphobic incidents by the Greek media and other companies and bodies:
+The neo-Nazi far-right party Golden Dawn has made a very infamous statement when addressing gay men and women, saying that "after the immigrants, you're next". There are also allegations that members of the Greek police force were cooperating with Golden Dawn members and it may explain why several transgender women have been arrested during Thessaloniki Pride for no reason by the police, brutally attacked and illegally detained on the grounds of "keeping the city clean".
+Colour Youth, a non-governmental organisation, reported 101 incidents of homophobic and transphobic violence for 2009–2015, with 75 of them in 2015. Five of the attacks caused serious bodily harm, while the majority concerned verbal attacks.
+Support for same-sex marriage
+Support for the LGBT people having equal rights as everyone else
+Support for same-sex adoption
+A survey among Greek MPs, conducted in 2003 and presented by the Hellenic Homosexual Community , raised the issue of recognising taxation, inheritance and other legal rights to same-sex couples. The results of the survey showed that 41% of MPs surveyed favored granting such rights, while 55% were against it. Among PASOK MPs, 55% were favorable, compared to just 27% of New Democracy MPs. The party with the highest MP favorable responses was Synaspismos , while the majority of Communist Party MPs abstained. MPs favorable responses were higher among women, younger and Athenian MPs.
+A 2006 study among Greek students in Heraklion, Crete, surveyed their attitudes towards male homosexuality. Two scales were used and translated into Greek along with several questions that formed a self-completed questionnaire. The main findings showed that there were differences among the different schools in terms of homophobic expression and that "the main predictors influencing homophobia score were: willingness to defend and protect gay rights, conversations with gay individuals, religiosity, politicization and having gay friends".
+A Eurobarometer survey published in December 2006 showed that 15% of Greeks surveyed supported same-sex marriage and 11% recognised same-sex couple's right to adopt. These figures were considerably below the 25-member European Union average of 44% and 32% respectively, and placed Greece in the lowest ranks of the European Union along with Romania, Latvia, Poland, Cyprus, Malta, Lithuania, Slovakia and Bulgaria.
+A Eurobarometer survey published in January 2007  showed that 77% of Greeks believed that being gay or lesbian in their country "tends to be a disadvantage", while the European Union average was 55%. 68% of Greeks agreed that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was "widespread" in Greece , and 37% that it was more widespread in than five years before . 84% of Greeks also reported not having any gay or lesbian friends or acquaintances .
+A Kapa Research  survey on behalf of the Greek Institute of Psychological & Sexual Health, published in the Greek newspaper Ta Nea on 20 September 2010, showed that 64% of Greeks agreed with the legalization of same-sex partnerships and 24% disagreed; as for the legalization of same-sex marriage, 39% of Greeks agreed and 52% disagreed.
+In June 2013, the Pew Research Center released data where they conducted surveys of respondents in some 40 countries on the question of whether the respondents believed their society should or should not accept homosexuality. Pew Research questioners scientifically asked respondents in Greece this question and found that amongst those asked, a majority 53% of those Greek respondents believed their society should accept homosexuality, while 40% of the respondents believed that society should not accept homosexuality. Amongst those Greeks surveyed between the ages of 18 and 29 years of age support for society accepting homosexuality was at a higher 66% than the overall 53%. For those respondents aged 30 to 49 support was too at a higher 62%, but a lower 40% for those respondents 50 years and older.
+On 11 April 2015, the newspaper To Vima published a survey conducted by Kapa Research, which showed that 39% of respondents supported same-sex marriage and 51% were against it. In the same survey, 66% of respondents agreed with the statement that homosexuality should be accepted by society, while 28% believed that homosexuality should not be accepted by society.
+On 12 May 2015, Greece had its first survey ever showing majority support for same-sex marriage at 56%, while 35% opposed it. The survey was based on 1,431 respondents and was conducted by Focus Bari. A very high percentage of respondents  agreed that homosexuality should be accepted by society and 70% agreed that civil partnerships should be extended to same-sex couples. However, respondents remained sceptical about adoption by same-sex couples with only 30% supporting it, while 56% opposed it. Only 14% believed that homosexuality is a mental disorder and 54% stated that stricter laws should exist to punish homophobic crimes .
+In December 2015, a poll, conducted by the University of Macedonia during the week before the civil unions bill became law, found that 56% of the public agreed with the law, while 29% strongly opposed it.
+A survey by Pew found that the Greek respondents  gave the most cultural liberal responses regarding LGBT rights among Orthodox Christians from various countries, except for respondents from the United States, and the most liberal responses of all Orthodox-majority countries. Specifically, 50% of practicing Greek Orthodox Christian respondents said that homosexuality should be accepted by society, while 45% disagreed. Regarding legalizing same-sex marriage, 25% of practicing Greek Orthodox Christians were in favor and 72% were opposed.
+A poll conducted by DiaNeosis in 2018 showed that 40,8% of Greeks supported same-sex marriage and 24% were in favor of adoption by same-sex couples. The poll found a large age gap with 58% of those aged 17–24 and 47% of those aged 25–39 being supporters of same-sex marriage, in contrast to only 29% of those aged over 65. Adoption by same-sex couples was supported by 49% among those aged 17–24, but only 11% of those over 65 shared the same view.
+The 2019 Eurobarometer found that 39% of Greeks thought same-sex marriage should be allowed throughout Europe, 56% were against. The same poll found that 64% of respondents agreed with the statement: "Gay, lesbian and bisexual people should have the same rights as heterosexual people", whereas 32% disagreed. Those figures marked an increase of 6% and 2%, respectively, compared to the 2015 Eurobarometer survey.
+A 2020 poll conducted by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in cooperation with the KAPA Research, found that the concept of liberalism is becoming increasingly popular in Greece, with the majority of the Greeks viewing it positively. Also, 71% of the respondents believe that homosexuality should be accepted in the Greek society, and 90% of the respondents believe that the homosexual people should have equal rights as everyone else, marking a sharp increase compared to previous polls. Same-sex marriage is favoured by 56% of the respondents, while adoption by same-sex couples is supported by 40%.
+A 2022 poll conducted by the Eteron Institute, shows that the youth in Greece is increasingly liberal, with 70% of the young Greeks aged 17-24 being in favor of joint adoptions by same-sex couples while only 37% of the elder Greeks aged above 65 are in favor, marking is a sharp increase compared to the 2018 DiaNeosis poll where adoption by same-sex couples was supported by the 49% of those aged 17–24, but only 11% of those over 65.

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+Atlanta Pride, also colloquially  called the Atlanta Gay Pride Festival, is a week-long annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender  pride festival held in Atlanta, Georgia . Established in 1971, it is one of the oldest and largest pride festivals in the United States. According to the Atlanta Pride Committee, as of 2017, attendance had continually grown to around 300,000. Originally a pride held in June, Atlanta Pride has been held in October every year since 2008, typically on a weekend closest to National Coming Out Day.
+The annual pride week began when a group of lesbian, gay men, drag queens, and gender non-conformists joined together. At the time police raids on gay bars were common because homosexual sex was illegal in all but one state in the United States. On June 28, 1969, the police raided a popular gay bar called Stonewall Inn. Everyone was cooperative until the police began to force three drag queens and a lesbian into the back of a police car. The crowd of bystanders began to throw bottles at the police and fight back. This riot later became known as the Stonewall riot. The riot lasted for several days and began one of the first equal rights protests for the LGBT community. That riot was the beginning of the LGBT rights movements and the opportunity and gateway for Atlanta Pride.
+In 1970, a year after the Stonewall riots, Atlanta activists handed out literature at an arts festival in Piedmont Park. During the city's first Pride protest march in 1971, activists were not granted a permit to march; the march took place on sidewalks from Downtown to Piedmont Park. In 1972, hundreds of people marched in the parade, which was covered by local television stations. In 1973, some marchers wore paper bags over their heads to hide their identity, protecting themselves from the dangers they may face and to represent how invisible they felt in their communities.
+Since 2010, the event has had an annual economic impact of over $25 million for the city.
+In 2016, Pride.com named Atlanta Pride one of the eight best LGBT pride events in the nation.
+Held in October to coincide with "National Coming Out Day," the Atlanta Pride festival is preceded by a variety of events that begin in June to celebrate the Stonewall riots. Each year, the Atlanta Pride Committee names Grand Marshals, including Stacey Abrams and Feroza Syed in 2019. Atlanta's Out on Film gay film festival offers a weeklong selection of LGBT films by, for, and about the LGBT community. Out on Film runs in conjunction with Atlanta Pride.
+Until 2008, it was held in June in Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. In 2008, large events were banned from Piedmont Park due to drought conditions, so Pride was moved to the Atlanta Civic Center and delayed until October. In 2009, it returned to Piedmont Park, but kept the October date due to more favorable autumn weather and the difficulty to perform adequate fundraising in only nine months.
+Atlanta is widely noted as the LGBT capital of the South due to its progressive reputation, highly visible and diverse LGBT community, and vibrant LGBT culture. In 2010, The Advocate named Atlanta the "gayest city in America." In 2019, Realtor.com ranked Atlanta the second best city in America for LGBTQ residents.
+"The main mission of the Atlanta Pride Committee is to provide lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender and queer persons with cultural and educational programs and activities which enhance mental and physical health, provide social support, and foster an awareness of the past and present contributions of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender persons, through community activities and services, including an annual Pride event." The events that occur at Atlanta Pride range from speeches about violence against women, race, sexual orientation, gender, immigration, etc. The main event is the pride parade which is a march through the city filled with costumes, music, and banners. It also has marches, market layout and vendors, concerts, dance parties, motorcycle shows, and cultural exhibits.

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+Augusta Pride is the LGBT  pride organization in Augusta, Georgia. It hosts a pride parade in downtown Augusta. The event started in 2010.
+A two-day Augusta Pride Festival is held at the Augusta Commons every June. The festival kicks off with a Friday night concert and dance party known as Beats on Broad which has previously featured headliners Bebe Rexha and Dev.
+The second day is kicks off with the Augusta Pride Parade down Broad Street in Downtown Augusta before the festival starts with live music and vendors set up at the Augusta Commons for festival goers to enjoy.
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+BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, formerly known as the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival , is the biggest LGBTIQ+ film festival in Europe. It takes place every spring in London, England. It began in 1986, as a season of gay and lesbian films at the National Film Theatre for two years, under the title "Gay's Own Pictures", curated by Peter Packer of the Tyneside Cinema. It was renamed the 'London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival' in 1988. Having been a two-week festival for many years, the festival was shortened to a week in 2011, then increased to 10 days in 2012. The events name change to BFI Flare occurred in 2014. On its 30th anniversary, screenings attendance at BFI Flare was up 9% and box-office results surpassed the previous, record-breaking year. Audiences at all events and screenings over the eleven-day festival totalled 25,623 in 2016. Additional programming under the BFI Flare tag is available at throughout the year.
+Organised and run by the British Film Institute, all BFI Flare screenings take place in the BFI Southbank.
+In 2014 the festival consisted of several sections or categories of films; hearts, bodies, minds. Subsequent years have included additional categories.
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+Baltic Pride is an annual LGBT+ pride parade rotating in turn between the capitals of the Baltic states; Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. It is held in support of raising issues of tolerance and the rights of LGBT community and is supported by ILGA-Europe. Since 2009, the main organisers have been Mozaīka, the National LGBT Rights Organization LGL Lithuanian Gay League, and the Estonian LGBT Association.
+The first pride event held in Latvia took place in 2005 under the name Riga Pride, as the local equivalent to other pride parades held elsewhere around the world. Political opposition to Pride emerged after organizers received a permit. The Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvītis publicly opposed the event, and Pride was officially sanctioned only after a court overturned a withdrawal of the permit. The deputy Mayor of Riga Juris Lujāns resigned in protest at the event going ahead.
+Following public manifestations of homophobia surrounding the first event in 2005, some members of the LGBT community, their friends, and family members united to found the organisation Mozaīka , in an attempt to improve the understanding of and tolerance for LGBT rights in Latvia.
+From 2006, the event was officially known as Riga Pride and Friendship Days, expanding the programme beyond a parade to include an ecumenical church service at St. Saviour's Anglican Church, and seminars on tolerance and LGBT rights. It was significantly disrupted by protesters from "No Pride", among other groups. The European Parliament expressed its disappointment at the failure of Latvian authorities to adequately protect the parade.
+The event took place in Riga in 2007 and 2008.
+In 2009 the march was allowed by the Administrative Court of Riga. It was the first to be called Baltic Pride and began a rotation annually between each Baltic state capital in cooperation with the Lithuanian Gay League, the Estonian LGBT Association  and their local Pride events.
+At the 2012 Baltic Pride, 400 people marched in support of LGBT rights in Latvia, joining them were US diplomats showing support.
+In 2015 the parade took place as part of the Europride event in Riga, the first time the pan-European LGBT rights week came to an ex-Soviet state.
+In 2018, 8000 people marched in the pride parade held in Riga.
+Over the years, the event has been threatened by protests. In 2006, Riga City Council at first tried to refuse permission for the Pride Parade. Similar political debates surrounded the first Pride Parade in 2005.
+The LGBT community in Latvia has been divided in its attitudes to the event. In a February 2007 survey of 537 LGBT persons by ILGA-Latvija, 82% of respondents said they were not in favour of holding the planned Riga Pride and Friendship Days 2007, while only 7% felt that these events would help promote tolerance towards sexual minorities. ILGA-Latvija, however, has since changed its stance and now is positive towards the Riga Pride and Friendship Days.
+The parade took place in Vilnius in 2010; it was the first public pride march organised in Lithuania.
+In 2013, the mayor of Vilnius attempted to relocate the parade to the riverbank , on a remote street outside the city centre. Two courts ruled that he could not, and that the Baltic Pride had the right to use the same route other public demonstrations did.
+Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius from the Liberal Movement has stated he has no opposition to the city hosting the 2016 parade. On 18 June 2016, a crowd of 3,000 Lithuanian LGBT* community members and allies participated in the Baltic Pride March on the central avenue in the centre of Vilnius. The march took place without any serious incidents. People marched from Lukiškių Square to Bernardine Garden, a total of 2.3 kilometres . After the march, the participants gathered at the Loftas art factory for a music concert, featuring performances by Dana International, DJ Leomeo, LaDiva Live, Maria Sam Katseva, Donny Montell, Ruslanas Kirilkinas and Sasha Song.
+Baltic Pride was used to challenge the discriminatory application of the "anti-gay propaganda" legislation and to encourage public debate on the recognition of same-sex unions in Lithuania.
+The 2019 pride took place between 4–9 June in Vilnius. Around 10,000 people marched in the gay pride on 8 June 2019.
+Pride parades have been organised since 2004 in Tallinn. The city hosted Baltic Pride in 2011, 2014 and 2017.
+Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the organisation decided to cancel the event in 2020. The 2020 edition of Baltic Pride was planned to happen in Tallinn.
+Aside from ILGA-Europe, the event has also received consistent support from other LBGT organisations in neighbouring countries, most notably RFSL from Sweden and Amnesty International.

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+The Bangalore Queer Film Festival is an annual LGBT event that has been held in Bangalore, India since the year 2008. The event carefully selects queer films from all over the world and brings them to an ever-growing Bangalore audience.
+BQFF came into existence in the year 2008. Since its inception, it has become an entrenched part of the cultural landscape of Bangalore. The festival serves as a space for LGBT  concerns to be voiced through the medium of moving image. BQFF focuses on both straightforward LGBT films and wildly queer and radical films.
+The BQFF is a go-to festival for South India’s cinema lovers and has seen thousands of viewers during past screenings. It also hosts filmmakers and producers from around the world and provides opportunities for new collaborations in cinema. The Bangalore Queer Film Festival  held its 6th edition in February 2014. It celebrated cinema on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, hijra, intersex  and other sexual and gender minorities in India. As one of the more popular queer film festivals in India, BQFF showcased over 50 international films, a photo exhibition, panel discussions on important issues and cultural performances. The festival was held over 3 days at the Alliance Française de Bangalore, Vasanthnagar.
+The festival in 2014 was spread over three days, and was the biggest ever with 91 films from 24 countries that were screened. There was music, dance and poetry recitation in the evening, drawing not only for members of the LGBT community but also their allies in the IT city.
+The Film screenings happened across three days during 28 February and 1–2 March 2014. Below is a list of the films that were screened.
+The 2016 edition of the Bengaluru Queer Film Festival was organised from 26 to 28 February. Over the course of these three days, films included:

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+Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival  was established by the staff of 'Attitude Magazine', an LGBT weekly publication from Bangkok in Thailand, in 2015. The magazine, which began publishing in 2011, is the first in Thailand to specifically address the interests of the country's LGBT community, and to seek to represent LGBT views in wider Thai society.
+The magazine decided therefore to launch Thailand's first-ever LGBT Festival, as LGBT people and issues have already gained acceptance in Thai society for many years, and several other countries in the East Asian region, which sometimes record less legal acceptance of LGBT issues than Thailand, such as Indonesia , The Philippines , Cambodia and Myanmar, already have well-established LGBT film festivals. The magazine argues that, with Thailand's enactment of the 2015 Gender Equality Act, discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation is no longer tolerated in Thai society.
+Despite the advances made over many years, the magazine believes that the LGBT community is not always portrayed in a positive light in Thai films and other forms of media, with certain stereotypes still prevalent whenever movies, in particular, address gender diversity. The magazine believes that the Festival will therefore help to provide a more realistic and varied view of the LGBT community.  The first film to open the first Festival in 2015 was "How To Win At Checkers ", a film about two brothers, one gay, set around a military draft day in Thailand.
+The 2015 Festival lasted for 10 days, with 15 films from 12 countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, South Korea, the United States and Europe. Sanchai Chotirosseranee, deputy director of Film Archive and partner of the BGLFF 2015, claims that it has been "a long journey" for the LGBT community in Thailand. In the 1955 Thai film, Chua Fah Din Salai, the Thai male comedian, Lor Tok, was shown dressing up as a woman and dancing with another male character. From then until now, the portrayal of what were dismissively referred to as 'katoey' meant that LGBT characters were presented as comic relief in films and soap operas, and had become the norm in Thai society. The magazine is keen to ensure that such portrayals are brought to an end, and that members of the LGBT community can be fully accepted and respected as equals.

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+Beijing Queer Film Festival , , is an LGBT film festival, held annually in Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China. It was the first LGBT film festival to be established in mainland China, founded in 2001 by the Chinese author and LGBT film director Cui Zi'en, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy.
+Other Chinese-language LGBT film festivals in the region, which also feature international LGBT films with Chinese subtitles, include CINEMQ, Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival and Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Like the Beijing Queer Film Festival, Shanghai Queer Film Festival, is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit event, and aims to help facilitate and promote the work of filmmakers from Chinese and other Asian backgrounds.
+Beijing has a large LGBT community. The Festival originated from Peking University, and is considered to be "the only community-based non-governmental film festival in China with a special focus on gender and sexuality".
+In 2011, Chinese filmmaker Yang Yang made a documentary entitled Our Story: The Beijing Queer Film Festival’s 10 Years of “Guerrilla Warfare” , reporting on the struggles of the Festival and the team behind it, and examining the role of the Chinese government's media censorship.
+The screening of LGBT films presents a challenge to filmmakers and festival organizers in China, as the country has a censorship law that prohibits any positive depiction of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender lives in films or TV shows. The selection of mainstream venues is not permitted, and the big international festivals in Shanghai and Beijing do not show gay-themed films, whilst DVDs of films such as Brokeback Mountain are only available on the black market.
+The founder of the Beijing Queer Film Festival, Cui Zi'en, says "The biggest change is that I'm not the only one doing this... There's more support from the gay community. Society has become more relaxed and open-minded in its thinking". Community organizers say that gay-themed events that would have been banned a few years ago are now being permitted.
+Beijing Queer Film Festival was founded in 2001 by Chinese film director Cui Zi’en, who personally identifies as gay. During the Festival's early years, screenings were often cancelled at short notice by the security police, and films were moved from cinemas and universities to bars and private homes. Publicity was largely by word-of-mouth and the organizers were notified that they may be arrested. The Festival was closed by the police in 2001 and 2005, and the Festival's main venues were changed or cancelled.
+The second edition, in 2002, relocated its screenings from Beijing University to the-then semi-'underground' 798 arts district, , which is described as "China's version of New York's SoHo". In 2011, the Festival was again ordered shut down by government officials.
+In 2013, the Festival proceeded without interruption. Organizers did no public advertising for the event, and many screening venues were announced at the last minute. Several more publicized screenings were held at the French and Dutch embassies, and the American Center, out of reach of the local authorities. In that year, 28 films from nine countries were screened, including Chinese-language titles from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The Festival also hosted a debate on the topic of film censorship in China.
+Due to the perceived success of the Festival in 2013, the organizers for the 2014 edition decided to hold the screenings in a public cinema and marketed the Festival to the Beijing LGBT community through social media. However, during this period, the Chinese Government, under the country's new leadership, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, arrested critics and closed down NGOs that were regarded as potentially critical of the government. In late August 2013, the Beijing Independent Film Festival had been forced to close, and would-be audience members were dispersed by police, whilst the venue's electricity supply was switched off and the organizers were detained. During this time, police seized documents and film archives from their offices. As a result of these developments, the 2014 Festival organizers decided to change their approach, and abandoned the idea of using a public cinema, and decided to cut back on their social media activities. Shortly before the festival began, two security officers visited the Festival Co-director, Jenny Man Wu, a non-LGBT woman with a long-term interest in LGBT cinema. They told her that they had tapped her phone and read all her emails, and that, if she went ahead with the Festival as planned, "there will be trouble.”
+On the day before the opening of the 2014 Festival, an email was sent to potential attendees that there was a new plan. They were told to "go to the central Beijing railway station the next morning, purchase tickets for the 11:15 AM train to a town near the Great Wall, and proceed to car  number 7", with the note ending “Make sure to bring your laptops”. The following morning, the train carriage was filled with a mixture of Chinese LGBT film buffs, filmmakers, academics, artists and activists. The organizers handed out flash drives for the laptops, containing the opening film, Our Story, a retrospective of the Festival's history. The rest of the festival went off without major incident. Most of the films were from China, with others from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Europe.  There were features, documentaries, a variety of shorts including several student films, and panels on topics ranging from “Light Documentary, Heavy Activism” to “Women on Top.” Many of the screenings and panel discussions took place at the Dutch Embassy, beyond the control of the Beijing local authorities.
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+Beirut Pride is the annual non-profit LGBTIQ+ pride event and militant march held in Beirut, the capital of the Lebanon and aiming to decriminalize homosexuality in Lebanon.
+Since its inception in 2017, Beirut Pride has been the first and only LGBTIQ+ pride in the arabophone world, and its largest LGBTIQ+ event. It has been the topic of two MA theses, one post-doctoral research and six documentaries, so far covered in 17 languages in 350 articles. Its first installment gathered 4,000 persons, and 2,700 people participated in the first three days of its 2018 edition, before the police cracked it down and arrested its founder Hadi Damien. The next day, the prosecutor of Beirut suspended the scheduled activities, and initiated criminal proceedings against Hadi for organizing events “that incite to debauchery”. Its third edition took place in September/October 2019, and its fourth edition happened online in 2020, in the context the online Global Pride celebration, because of restrictions based on COVID-19, and because of the economic collapse of Beirut.
+The global advances on the LGBT file and the momentum they created were the incentive for then 28-year old Hadi Damien to start planning Beirut Pride in August 2016. Acknowledging the need for a communications platform that stretches on several consecutive days, that speaks several languages, that taps into the universality of the creative sector, and that is structured, visible, loud and collaborative, Hadi approached friends and LGBT NGOs, gathering a group of dedicated people to reflect and to communicate on the LGBTIQ+ file in Lebanon.
+The first edition of Beirut Pride took place on May 14–21, 2017 to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia. It drew four thousand people who participated in an exhibition of gender-fluid garments and its roundtable, a 101 drag workshop, a lip-synching performance, an LGBT storytelling night, NGO open doors, film screenings, a roundtable about LGBT persons in Lebanese movies and TV series, several parties, a legal talk, the launching of 3 t-shirts designed by Bashar Assaf x Marwan Kaabour, a drag show, and a party in Mar Mkhayel, the trendiest nightlife street in Beirut, where 18 bars flew the rainbow flag. A march was scheduled for May 21, 2017, but in the days building to it, the intents for participation exceeded all expectations, and therefore, the planned logistics were insufficient to properly accompany the march. Therefore, organizers booked a large mountain land overlooking the Mediterranean, where participants indulged in barbecue, beer, live music, organic food, games, tanning and dancing. In support of Beirut Pride, several embassies flew the rainbow flag.
+This edition was troubled when NGOs Proud Lebanon and Helem suffered from a call for boycott from organisations who called on to the authorities to stop both events. Each organization had planned a full conference day with performances, talks and screenings. The hotel that Proud Lebanon had booked cancelled the reservation, and Helem turned its event into a closed conference, broadcast on social media in an attempt to avoid violent escalation that would endanger the safety of the public and Lebanese society .
+The second edition of Beirut Pride was scheduled for May 12–20, 2018. It started with a brunch in honor of the parents who did not kick their LGBT children from the family house because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The opening party brought 800 persons who sang and cheered to the performance of Lebanese singer and dancer Khansa, acclaimed Sudanese Brooklyn-based music band “Alsarah and the Nubatones”, and danced to the disco music until the early morning hours. A Sunday brunch at the independent art incubator “Haven for Artists” featured a talk about trans-identity, followed by a talk with migrant workers about masculinity and femininity, before the massive Beirut Grand Ball. Additionally, Beirut Pride announced the Corporate Pledge project it was developing: a policy for corporations not to discriminate against staff and clients based on their sexuality and identity. Moreover, performances, talks, a gender-fluid fashion show and parties were programmed, a podcast and a magazine were ready to be launched. However, on the third night, Monday, May 14, 2018, Beirut Pride was raided following the dissemination of a homophobic, sensational, fabricated programme that was attributed to Beirut Pride. The police arrested the organiser of Beirut Pride, and despite the interrogation proving the falsity of the accusations, the general prosecutor of Beirut ordered the suspension of the scheduled activities before initiating criminal proceedings against Hadi Damien for organizing events “that incite to debauchery”.
+Following the crackdown, Beirut Pride witnessed a surge in support with hundreds of people calling, sending messages and offering assistance. A media frenzy surrounded the event, and condemnations poured from international organisations, foreign governments, Lebanese parliamentarians, InterPride, and other prides such as Marseille Pride and Copenhagen Pride.
+The third edition was announced for September 28 - October 6, 2019. The year 2019 also marks the 50th commemoration of the Stonewall riots. The opening ceremony that was supposed to be held in Aresco center 3 "The Palace" in Al Hamra, got postponed after the member of the republic asked to stop the festival's activities accusing them of "violating moralities". It had already lost the support of the community after a transwoman came out about her negative experience with the founder and people questioned how the event was managed.
+The 2020 Beirut Pride event was held against the context of both the global COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation of much of Beirut by an explosion on 4 August. Beirut Pride offered a package of material related to arts, education, and mental support.
+As most Pride events in the world were suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions, EPOA and InterPride organized Global Pride on June 27, a digital 27-consecutive-hour event streamed on YouTube and on several online channels. Beirut Pride secured contributions from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, in addition to the participation of other countries from the Middle East and the Arab World such as Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Tunisia, and groups from the Arab diaspora. Arabic-speaking participants also suggested Arabic terms that are equivalent to “Pride”, and voted on them, eventually choosing إفتخار .
+Beirut Pride contributed two videos to the Global Pride event. One produced by media platform Megaphone, released on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2020, and offering an expansive overview on LGBTIQ+ realities in Lebanon; and a second, soothing, video "We Learn from Lebanon" depicting the movement of Mediterranean sea waves with a message of stability and steadfastness, produced by Beirut Pride just a few weeks before the Beirut explosion.
+For Beirut Pride to sustainably grow, organizers went beyond Pride Days and started working on some LGBTIQ+ files. Beirut Pride opened channels of communication with all religious authorities and political parties. It lobbied during the Parliamentary elections of May 2018 for the decriminalization of homosexuality, which the Christian democratic Kataeb Party and some independent candidates endorsed from the civil society and from the traditional parties. Contributing to the fight against homophobia, Beirut Pride collaborated with the American University of Beirut and with the Lebanese American University. It maintained its media presence, and worked with journalists and reporters on several LGBTIQ+ coverage. Beirut Pride facilitated several photoshoots in Lebanon on LGBTIQ+ themes, and initiated the Arabic script #TypeWithPride based on the Gilbert Color Bold typeface, currently in development with designer Ghiya Haidar and Fontself. Through a regular presence on the international scene, participating to local and global talks, conferences and panels, expanding philanthropy and assistance, Beirut Pride constantly builds its reputation which positions it in the LGBTIQ+ global narrative.
+For World AIDS Day, Beirut Pride launched a three-day event focusing on HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Organizers got the rights to adapt the UNAIDS World AIDS Day campaign of 2017, and renewed this collaboration in 2018. Beirut Pride also issued the trilingual HIV Multi-Sectorial Framework in Lebanon, before revisiting and augmenting a parliament bill that frames the rights of people living with HIV, emphasizes on national prevention outreach and criminalises discrimination against people with HIV.
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+The Berlin Pride Celebration, also known as Christopher Street Day Berlin, or CSD Berlin, is a pride parade and festival held in the second half of July each year in Berlin, Germany to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender  people and their allies. Since 1979, the event has been held each year. Berlin Pride is one of the largest gay and lesbian organized events in Germany and one of the biggest in Europe. Its aim is to demonstrate for equal rights and equal treatment for LGBT people, as well as celebrate the pride in Gay and Lesbian Culture.
+The CSD is held in memory of the Stonewall Riots, the first big uprising of LGBTQ people against police assaults on June 27, 1969. These took place in Christopher Street, in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village in New York City, New York.
+The first CSD in Berlin took place on June 30, 1979, and since then has taken place every year. In 2012, around 700,000 people attended the CSD Parade, and 500,000 people were present at the final parade location at the Brandenburg Gate, making it into one of the largest events in Berlin as well as one of the largest Pride Events in the world.
+CSD Berlin 2004
+Berlin Pride 2006
+CSD Berlin 2008
+CSD Berlin 2011
+CSD Berlin comprises several events, taking place within the framework of the month-long Pride Festival, usually starting at the end of May. Pride Week is the final week of the festival, ending with the CSD Parade. The CSD Gala has been taking place since 2011, and is organised in co-operation with the Friedrichstadt Show Palace.
+In the same month both Kreuzberg Pride and Gay Night at the Zoo are held. More gay festivals in Berlin include Folsom Europe, and Easter in Berlin.
+All CSD events are organised by the Berliner CSD e.V. . The organization was formed at the end of 1999. The association was meant to relieve the three previous coordinators: the "Sonntags-Club", "LSVD" and "Mann-o-Meter", who had been organizing the "CSD Berlin" from 1994 to 1999.
+Each year, the theme, motto and political demands of the CSD Parade are determined in so-called Pride Forums. These are open meetings that can be attended by anyone.
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+The Bhopal Pride March was an event held in 2017 to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender  culture in Bhopal, India.
+The march occurred on May 17, 2017. Events included panel discussions, music events, street plays and an art exhibition.  The march in 2017 was the first pride march in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and was held on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. The parade began at the Van Vihar gate and ended at the Hotel Lakeview Ranjit.
+Kokila Bhattacharya, a member of the organising committee said, ‘We will not be debating or protesting peoples' beliefs, we will only talk about fundamental human rights and a life for the LGBTQ community of dignity and social acceptance.”It came about when some students in the college where the awareness sessions were held asked why there weren’t any pride marches in Bhopal. The event was funded by people through crowd funding and didn't rely on sponsors for the same.
+Approximately four hundred LGBTQ community members and allies from across India participated, with marchers demanding that the Madhya Pradesh government set up a transgender/sexual minorities welfare board in Bhopal. The event attracted NGOs and voluntary organisations as participants including the Citizen's Action Network, Mitra Shringaar Samiti, Anmil Seva Sansthan and the Center for Social Justice. Sanjana Singh Rajput, Balram Raikwar and Devi Singh were some of the activists present.  Besides these renowned activists, many members of the LGBTQ community participated to show their identity.
+Before the event, Sanjana Singh Rajput stated, "The parade will mark a way to aware  people about us and it will be aimed  to make people understand that we are also human beings who deserve to be accepted in society and get education, health facilities, and employment opportunities like everyone else."
+People came dressed in traditional clothes to depict that the presence of the community in India and is not the result of western influence. Sumit Pawar from Mumbai, who was dressed like 'Kamdev', said, "Our mythological books and architecture prove that LGBTQIA community existed in the ancient India too. In Khajuraho, architects freely made sculptures of lesbian and gay but now people feel awkward in discussing such issues."
+After its first year of Pride Walk in 2017, Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh witnessed its second "Gay Pride Parade", 2018. It was a 15-day event from July 1–15, that conducted various programs like film screening, open mic, storytelling, street play etc. The organizers crowd funded the event through social media sites.

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+The first Bialystok equality march took place on 20 July 2019 in Białystok. Approximately a thousand pride marchers were opposed by thousands of members of far-right groups, ultra football fans, and others who violently attacked the marchers. Following the attack, solidarity events were held in Poland.
+Białystok is located in Podlaskie Voivodeship which is regarded as the bible belt of Poland and is a stronghold of the party Law and Justice . The surrounding Białystok County had been declared a LGBT-free zone in 2019, as have other regions in Poland. However the mayor of Białystok Tadeusz Truskolaski is a political independent with more tolerant views.
+In February 2019 Warsaw Mayor signed a declaration supporting LGBTQ rights and pledging to integrate sexual education in schools following World Health Organization guidelines. The Warsaw declaration enraged conservatives and was a rallying cry in conservative politics and media. While in the run-up to the 2015 Polish parliamentary election PiS engaged in anti-Muslim rhetoric, in the months prior to 2019 Polish parliamentary election PiS focused on LGBT right. PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński saying LGBT "ideology" was imported to Poland from abroad, a threat to the Polish identity and nation.
+Many Catholic Church in Poland figures have spoken against LGBT rights in Poland. In response to transphobic and homophobic speech by the Church and PiS, some 24 pride marches were scheduled for 2019 in Poland.
+On 7 July 2019, Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda issued a  proclamation to be read in all churches in Białystok and the entire Podlaskie Voivodeship. He evoked the memory of Poland's struggle against Communism with the Latin phrase non possumus , which Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński used in an historic protest that led to his arrest in 1953. He wrote that pride marches were "blasphemy against God", and described the march as set up "by a foreign initiative in Podlaskie land and community, an area which is deeply rooted in Christianity and concerned about the good of its own society, especially children". Unlike right-wing and centrist mayors elsewhere in Poland, who had attempted to ban pride marches, Białystok's mayor allowed the march to take place in the face of widespread criticism from PiS officials.
+According to Rafał Pankowski of "Never Again" Association, the Białystok region is strong associated with the far-right: "Many of the acts of xenophobic aggression have been committed in Podlaskie compared to other regions in Poland".
+According to the police, 32 demonstrations were registered for the day of the march mostly in opposition to it. counter-demonstrations included a prayer vigil at Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Białystok and an adjoining picnic at Branicki Palace, Białystok that was organized by Podlaskie marshal Artur Kosicki that included a display by an army regiment, folk musicians, and inflatable castles.
+Prior to the march, leaflets were distributed in the city stating it would be "contaminated with LGBT bacteria". The Gazeta Polska newspaper announced plans to distribute LGBT-free zone stickers along with the newspaper.
+According to Jacek Dehnel, he was supposed to make a speech at the opening of the march at a square on Skłodowska Street, however as marchers were faced with violence even prior to the official start of the march and the riot atmosphere prevented this.
+Approximately 800 to 1,000 pride marchers were opposed by thousands of members of far-right groups, ultra football fans, and others who threw rocks, bottles, and firecrackers at the marchers. Police estimated some 4,000 counter protesters were involved. Counter-protesters shouted "Bialystok free of perverts" and "God, honor and motherland", and objects were hurled at marchers from housing blocks along the route. The marchers shouted "Poland free of fascists" as they marched some 3 kilometers in the city center.
+At around 5 in the evening the march ended, following the dispersal of far-right protesters by police who used pepper spray and stun grenades. To avoid being attacked as they left the march, some marchers hid LGBT flags and removed their makeup, in an effort to avoid standing out.
+More than 30 people were arrested for attacking police or the pride marchers.
+Dozens of marchers were injured. Amnesty International criticized the police response, saying they had failed to protect marchers and "failed to respond to instances of violence".
+According to the New York Times, similar to the manner in which the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville shocked Americans, the violence in Białystok raised public concern in Poland over anti-LGBT propaganda. While the Polish government has condemned the violence at the march, it has also hinted that LGBTQ activists were attempting a provocation. In late July the Ministry of Interior said they had identified 104 people who broke the law in the march, and carried out enforcement action towards 77.
+Michael Roth, the German Minister of State for Europe, condemned the attack and stated that he brings up gay rights in every discussion with his Polish counterparts.
+Thousands took to the streets in Warsaw to protest the violence in Białystok. A demonstration for tolerance was held in Gdańsk on 23 July 2019, with the slogan "zone free of zones" . In Szczecin a demonstration under the slogan of "hate-free zone"  took place, and in Łódź left-wing politicians handed out "hate-free zone" stickers. A week after the events, left-wing parties held a protest in Białystok against the violence at the march. In the July 2019 Berlin Pride, marchers organized by Die Linke carried signs in solidarity with Białystok. One marcher carried a banner of the Rainbow Madonna, in solidarity with Elżbieta Podleśna who was arrested in May 2019 for putting up signs of the Madonna.
+Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, two days after the event, condemned the violence in a brief statement as incompatible with Christianity but also urged believes to pray for "the family and its internal purity".
+The Polish Sieci magazine ran a cover story titled "A massive attack on Poland is approaching" in which they blamed the attack on the liberal opposition, saying they were trying to discredit the government.
+LGBT campaigners stated that PiS and the Church created a radicalised atmosphere, saying the government incited a "pogrom mood" towards to gays.
+Responding to the attacks on the Polish LGBT community, the global All Out LGBT+-rights group launched a campaign in Poland. All Out's Director of Programs Mathias Wasik stated: "More recently, we’ve been particularly worried about the escalation of attacks on LGBT+ people in Poland. Right-wing politicians and representatives of the Catholic church have been using the issue for their own political agenda. And their divisive words are being followed up by hateful actions, as we’ve seen during the attacks on the pride march in Białystok".

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+Bristol Pride is an annual festival in the city of Bristol, championing equality and diversity across South West England. Since 2010, the Bristol Pride festival has been organised by the charity 'Bristol Pride' . The festival is a fortnight of events in the city, and concludes with Pride Day on the second Saturday of July. Festival events include a mix of talks by prominent local activists and charities, screenings of LGBT films, performances, and various evenings of entertainment led by local drag artists. Pride Day includes the traditional Pride March, which begins in the city's Castle Park and ends at the Amphitheatre on the harbourside. Bristol Pride remains a free-to-attend festival, but encourages entry to the events by donation to enable the festival to continue.
+The 2019 Pride Day took place on Saturday 13 July 2019.
+The first Pride in Bristol was held in 1977 as a fundraiser for the Gay News blasphemy trial.  The 1977 event evolved into Avon Pride and took place every year until around 1994.  In 1991 a special postmark was issued to mark the 15th Pride festival in Bristol.
+A few small-scale festivals under the name Mardi Gras were held in the mid-2000s, with venues including the amphitheatre on Bristol harbourside and the Frogmore Street car park.
+After a gap of some years, Pride was resurrected in 2010. Held at first in Bristol's Castle Park, in 2012 it was moved to College Green as a one-off due to the presence of an English Defence League march in the city centre. From 2016 the festival moved from Castle Park to the Bristol Harbourside, at Millennium Square and the Amphitheatre. In 2017, 36,000 people  attended 19 events organised by Bristol Pride. To celebrate the tenth year of Bristol Pride in its current form and to accommodate ever-growing numbers of attendees, Bristol Pride moved the 2019 event from the Harbourside to the Downs, a large area of open public land in the north-west of the city.
+Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 event was suspended and it was later announced that it would be online-only.
+Bristol Pride Day has included headline musical acts such as Kelis, Martha Wash, Blue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Lisa Stansfield. In 2018, singer Alexandra Burke, dance group Snap! and indie band Republica headlined the festival. The 2019 Pride Day includes a diverse line up including the Spice Girl Mel C, Sink The Pink, Ru Paul's Drag Race alumni Peppermint and the return of Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
+Kelis in 2011
+Martha Wash
+Blue in 2011
+Sophie Ellis-Bextor
+Lisa Stansfield
+Belinda Carlisle in 2017
+Melanie C with Sink The Pink at Bristol Pride 2019
+Main stage at Bristol Pride 2019

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+Bucharest Pride, known previously as GayFest, is the annual festival dedicated to LGBT rights in Romania, taking place in Bucharest for nearly a week. Current event organizer is Kyle David Kipp. It first took place in 2004 and now occurs in May–June of each year, culminating with the March of Diversity . It is organised by the non-profit organisation ACCEPT, the country's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender  rights organisation. The festival also receives funding from the Romanian Ministry of Health and the National Council for Combating Discrimination, as well as a number of private organisations, such as the Open Society Institute and the British Council in Romania.
+Bucharest Pride features various LGBT cultural events, such as film screenings, art exhibitions, theatre and parties, as well as seminars and debates concerning LGBT social issues; since 2005 the festival has also included a gay pride parade.
+The Romanian gay rights movement began gaining ground in the mid-1990s, after homosexual sex between two consenting adults in private was decriminalised in 1996. In the same year, Romania's first gay rights organisation, Accept, was founded in Bucharest, with two core aims: creating a better society for LGBT people in Romania, and changing negative social attitudes towards LGBT people. In the late 1990s, the LGBT rights movement was mainly concerned with lobbying for the repeal of Article 200, which continued to criminalise public displays and promotion of homosexuality. In this context, the issue of organising a gay pride festival was not viable, particularly considering that public manifestations of homosexuality could have been prosecuted under Section 5 of Article 200, which read:
+The impulsion or luring of another person in viewing the practice of sexual relations between persons of the same sex, as well as propaganda or any other acts of proselytism for the same purpose are punishable with imprisonment between one and five years.
+It is important to note, however, that in October 2000, while Article 200 was still in force, ACCEPT hosted the 22nd European Conference of the International Lesbian and Gay Association in Bucharest. The event attracted around 100 participants from 27 countries, and created substantial dialogue and media attention about LGBT rights in Romania.
+After pressure from ACCEPT as well as the European Union and the Council of Europe, Article 200 was repealed completely at the end of 2001, removing the last anti-gay law in Romania. Additionally, anti-discrimination legislation introduced in 2000 made it illegal to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation. This permitted a greater social visibility of LGBT people and culture, with several gay clubs opening from 2002 onwards. In this context, the organisation of a gay pride festival became much more viable, with ACCEPT seeking to use these festivals in order to further enhance the visibility of LGBT people, and, particularly through an emphasis on cultural events, further its aim of changing negative social attitudes toward LGBT people in Romania.
+The GayFest 2004 was, at that time, the first LGBT festival ever organised in Romania, and took place between 3 and 9 May. It was initially titled "The Diversity Festival", and had the theme of "You have the right to be diverse". The festival was mainly centred on public debates concerning attitudes towards LGBT people in Romania, as well as cultural events. Several publications on LGBT issues, such as George Bălan's Homofobia, were officially launched, and Romania's first LGBT film festival was organised, with nine films from nine different countries, including a documentary about the 2001 gay pride parade in Belgrade, Serbia, which degenerated into violence. As part of the GayFest, the Goethe Institute in Bucharest hosted a photographic exhibition by Polish artist Karolina Bregula, titled Să ne vadă  which explored the visibility of gays and lesbians in Poland.
+According to Florin Buhuceanu, the executive director of Accept:
+The idea behind the festival was to offer some transparency for the gay community in Romania. This will be a week in which we will celebrate the right to be different from the majority while at the same time having solidarity with the rest of society. Romania must show that it lives in the Europe of 2004.
+The festival was publicly supported by a number of high-profile figures, such as parliamentarian Mădălin Voicu, who stated in the press that, "... we  should adapt and realise that no more barriers exist in this domain except those imposed by decency ... Homosexuals exist in all layers of society, starting from poor people to politicians, VIPs, etc."
+The 2004 Diversity Festival was initially planned to be organised with the support of the National Council for Combating Discrimination and Bucharest's Sector 3 Council, both of which later pulled out citing financial reasons, and resulting in the event being organised by ACCEPT with the support of several sponsors, including the Romanian Government, the British Council, the Goethe Institute, and the Embassy of Sweden in Bucharest.
+A gay pride parade through central Bucharest was also initially planned, but was later abandoned, with various newspapers stating that Romanian society was not ready for such an event on such a scale. Ştefan Iancu, the organiser of the 2004 Diversity Festival, stated to Ziarul, on 3 May 2004, that, "We wanted to do this , but we don't know if we would succeed in convincing gay people to come out into the streets for various reasons. Evidently, they are too afraid of the repercussions " Nonetheless, the next year a gay pride parade was organised as part of GayFest 2005 and was both successful and controversial.
+The 2005 GayFest took place between 23 and 30 May, under the slogan of "You have the right to love". It sparked a significant amount of controversy in Romania, as it included the first gay pride parade in the country. Initially, the application for this parade, which took place on May 29, was rejected by the Bucharest City Hall, on the grounds that the city could not adequately provide security for the participants. Various right-wing groups, such as the nationalist Noua Dreaptă, as well as the Romanian Orthodox Church, also actively opposed the march and called for its ban.
+The parade received authorisation, however, after intense lobbying from international gay rights campaigners and the National Council for Combating Discrimination, as well as public support from President Traian Băsescu and Justice Minister Monica Macovei. It proceeded successfully, with about 300 people taking part, though some sources claim that as many as 850 participants were present. A counter-demonstration, which had not received approval from the City Hall, was organised by Noua Dreaptă, the participants of which displayed anti-gay banners and violently aimed to break up the pride parade. Several members of Noua Dreaptă were arrested, and the group was subsequently fined 3,000 lei . At the conclusion of the parade, the executive director of ACCEPT, Florin Buhuceanu, stated that:
+The simple fact that the first gay festival  took place meant a lot for us. Next time it will be more spectacular, with music and shows. People must have the courage to accept those who are different than them.
+Aside from the pride parade, an LGBT film festival was organised during the GayFest week, with 13 films being shown at three different venues: the Goethe Institute, La Motoare, and the Elvira Popescu Cinema. Two public debates and seminars were organised at La Scena, on the topics of homosexuality and religion, the mass media, and anti-discrimination laws.
+The 2006 GayFest took place between 30 May and 4 June, and was organised under the title of "Same rights, same responsibilities". The central theme was that of  "Same-sex marriage and civil unions in Romania"; neither is currently recognised in the country. During the GayFest week, Accept called on the state to legalise same-sex marriage, or at least civil unions, creating unprecedented media coverage and debate about this issue.
+The GayFest Parade, which received authorisation from the City Hall on 30 May, took place on 3 June, starting at 18:00 and attracting approximately 800 participants, including LGBT rights activists from Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The parade included extravagant costumes, music and balloons, as well as the traditional 200-metre  long rainbow flag that is featured at every GayFest parade. The participants also held up signs reading, "We love you!" and "Homophobia, the worst disease", while calling on the parliament to legalise same-sex marriage.
+Alongside members of the LGBT community, the march was also attended by several supporters of civil rights and human rights, many of them heterosexual. One woman who participated in the parade stated to BBC News that:
+I am here with my husband, and in case we have a child who is gay, we want him to have rights and to be happy, to have the chance to be happy in this country. I support marriage between people of the same sex. Actually, it is for that reason that we are here. I want my child to have rights in the case that he is born homosexual. And this is not a tragedy, in any case.
+Like last year's event, however, the 2006 parade was not without opposition. On 20 May, twenty-two conservative NGOs, including the far right-wing Noua Dreaptă, called on the Romanian Orthodox Church to oppose the pride parade. On 2 June, the Orthodox Church denounced the City Hall for permitting the march to take place, stating that it is "an affront to the morality of public institutions, and a danger ... for the formation of young people". Additionally, Noua Dreaptă filed a legal complaint in a Bucharest court to get the march banned, arguing that it was "obscene and anti-social". The complaint was not, however, successful, with the court declaring that the GayFest Parade should take place.
+At 11:00 on 3 June, a few hours before the GayFest Parade, Noua Dreaptă conducted a counter-demonstration, attended by approximately 150 people, for "family values" and "moral traditions", parading with Christian crosses and Orthodox icons, as well as Romanian flags and posters denouncing homosexuality. Unlike in 2005, however, this march was not scheduled at the same time as the GayFest parade, and hence there were no violent clashes. Despite this, tens of protesters tried to break up the actual gay parade, clashing with the very strong police presence that shielded the LGBT activists. The protesters also held up signs reading "Romania does not need you" and threw eggs at the parade participants as well as the police. 51 anti-gay protesters were arrested and fined by police for provoking violence.
+Following the parade, the organisers, ACCEPT, stated that despite the attempts by anti-gay protesters to break up the parade, they were pleased that the authorities had the situation under control, and that the number of participants in the parade was greater than expected. The two parties of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance — the Liberals and the Democrats — issued a statement after the parade condemning the violent anti-gay protests and calling for tolerance. They did not, however, comment on the issue of same-sex unions. The opposition Social Democratic Party also condemned the anti-gay violence.
+A few days after the pride parade, the Cotidianul newspaper interviewed Romania's main political parties about their stance on same-sex marriage in Romania, which was the theme of the 2006 GayFest. The two governing parties of the Justice and Truth Alliance affirmed their support for gay rights, but were elusive on the issue of same-sex marriage specifically, while the Social Democrats said that they would not initiate or support a legislative proposal on same-sex marriage, but that a broader public debate on this issue is necessary, "in order to see in what way the standards regarding fundamental liberties can be improved with regard to people with another sexual orientation". The right-wing Conservatives and Greater Romania Party were opposed to same-sex marriage.
+The 2007 GayFest was held between 4 and 9 June 2007, with the theme of "Celebrate diversity! Respect rights!" The festival included a pride parade, art exhibitions and a film festival, as well as two public debates . As in 2006, the 2007 GayFest focused on the issue of same-sex marriage and partnership, provoking another public debate about the issue in the Romanian media and society. According to ACCEPT, the focus on same-sex unions was because "the adoption of legislation in this regard is a decisive step for affirming the equality of rights for all citizens"
+The 2007 GayFest included the Inklusiv Film Festival, which showcased nine feature-length international films and documentaries about LGBT issues:
+The festival also included seven short films, screened one after another, on the theme of "Men in privacy".
+On Tuesday, June 5, the second day of the film festival, a gay couple were physically assaulted by a group of around eight people, as they were exiting the cinema where the films are shown. The police intervened rapidly and arrested the aggressors. According to a statement by the police, one of the aggressors has been charged for assault. The spokesperson of the Bucharest Police, Christian Ciocan, stated that, "The person under question was taken to the police station, where he was charged for assault and other violences, risking a prison sentence of one to three months, or a penal fine." The status of the other attackers is unknown.
+The 2007 GayFest included two photographic exhibitions highlighting LGBT issues. The first exhibition, Parteneri de viaţa – album de nuntă  was held at the InfoEuropa Centre and presented photographs and testimonies from the first same-sex marriages conducted in San Francisco in 2004. The photographic project, which was created by the San Francisco Queer Cultural Center and Bay Area Community of Women, sought to "transmit the idea of the universality of love, acceptance and understanding."
+The Cărtureşti Bookstore also hosted a photo exhibition titled "Ce fac gayi şi lesbienele in pat?" , which highlighted 16 photos from the Polish artists Rapari Team that presented the day-to-day activities of same-sex couples. The goal of the exhibition was to show that "the life of a gay individual or couple is not different from the life of a heterosexual individual or couple, and that the needs of people, indifferent of sexual orientation, are the same."
+The GayFest pride parade was held on 8 June, between 17:00 and 19:00, on the route Boulevard Decebal-Piaţa Unirii-Parcul Izvor  in central Bucharest. Although ACCEPT expected more than 1,000 people to attend, only around 500 took place, due to rain. For the first time, the parade included a series of speeches made on the subject of LGBT rights. Keynote speeches were made by Florin Buhuceanu , Diane Fisher , Maxim Anmeghicean , and Christoph Michl . Security at the parade was ensured by 400 gendarmes. Aside from the traditional rainbow flag, balloons and music, the participants held up signs saying "God loves us all" and "We love our gay sons and lesbian daughters"
+Despite the unprecedented security, more than a hundred anti-gay protesters tried to break up the pride parade. The protesters failed to penetrate through the police cordon and, after throwing stones and firecrackers at police, they were dispersed with teargas and around 100 of them were arrested. According to Christian Ciocan, the police spokesperson, none of the participants in the pride parade was injured.
+Florin Buhuceanu, the vicepresident of Accept, declared after the march:
+We regret that our opponents use violence ... Police only did their job to protect an authorised march. It is our right to express our beliefs and we will not renounce in the face of violence.
+Maxim Anmeghicean, the representative from ILGA-Europe, stated that, "Even since I have participated at this march I have never seen such a strong presence by the forces of law and order". He remarked that the gendarmes had acted very professionally.
+A few hours before the GayFest pride parade, at 10:00 in the morning, the far-right organisation Noua Dreaptă organised a counter-demonstration against the GayFest, titled the "March for Normality". The event was attended by around 100 participants, bearing posters against same-sex marriage, Christian crosses, and fascist symbols. The Noua Dreaptă marchers were met by a group of around 20 antifascist  protesters who shouted slogans such as "All different, all equal" and "Noua Dreaptă: Illegal", and declared that they are "protesting against the Nazist extremism which goes unpunished in Romanian society". The antifascist protesters were not affiliated to the organisers of the GayFest pride parade.
+Media reactions to the 2007 GayFest have been more positive than in previous years, with three of the largest daily newspapers, Cotidianul, Evenimentul Zilei, and Adevărul, including favourable editorials or articles about the event. Evenimentul Zilei's Andrei Crăciun argued that, through GayFest 2007, "Bucharest is preparing for a new test of normality" where "normality means the ability to accept diversity, even if you don't agree ." An editorial in the same newspaper by Emilian Isaila argued that same-sex marriage should be legalised and that "God" should not play a role in this debate. Isaila stated that, "Same-sex unions should be legalised so that those with another sexual orientation can benefit from rights regarding borrowing, common ownership of goods and inheritance. And I also believe that sexual minorities in Romania have the right at least once a year to provoke debate on this issue. After all, if we want it or not, society has to integrate them."
+GayFest was also covered in the HotOrNot section or the Cotidianul Weekend newspaper. The article, titled "If you're hetero, go to the gay parade", stated that, ""Participating in GayFest is hot because, aside from the fight against discrimination, it  is a parade that is jolly, coloured and can be fun". At 12:00 on 9 June, ProTV, the largest private TV network in Romania, screened a short documentary titled "Gays which made history". In celebration of GayFest 2007, the show sought to inform people more about international LGBT history and issues of diversity.
+Following the pride parade, Libertatea sought to investigate the opinion of the public with regard to the event. According to its findings, the majority of those interviewed saw the parade as something "perfectly normal in a democratic country". One passer-by stated, "It's good that they're expressing their views. It's their business what sexual inclinations they have. As long as they don't affect me with anything, they can do what they want. If the City Hall gave them permission to organise a meeting, why wouldn't they do it? Today, people hold meetings for everything." Another interviewee remarked, "Their manifestation doesn't affect me in any way. They can do what they want if the City Hall gave them the right. They can affirm their opinions, they can ask for their rights, since we live in a free country."
+The GayFest 2007 received an official letter of support and solidarity from the organisers of Zagreb Pride, as well as from Herta Däubler-Gmelin, a member of the German Bundestag and former Justice Minister of Germany.
+The Romanian Orthodox Church issued a statement against the pride parade on 7 June. stating that it "disapproves the manifestation in the public space of the sexual minorities...as it considers it to be an offence to the morality of public life, to the sacred institution of the family, the basis of society, and a danger for the formation of the younger generation, by exposing the youth to moral corruption."
+The parade was, however, supported by the Metropolitan Community Church in Bucharest, with the church's pastor, Diane Fisher, making a keynote address.
+GayFest 2007 did not receive an official reaction from any political party in Romania. Some politicians did, however, make homophobic comments regarding the event. Gheorghe Flutur, the vice-president of the Liberal Democratic Party, stated in a television interview that he has "a poor opinion" of LGBT people, and that he disapproves of the liberties they have obtained.
+Radu Ţîrle, a Romanian MEP representing the Democratic Party, expressed his opposition to the gay pride parade, stating "The homosexual parade in Bucharest is a shame for Romania. It is regrettable that behind the so-called freedom of sexual orientation and freedom of opinion, the proselytism of this deviant and immoral behaviour is allowed to proliferate. The sexual orientation of anyone is a purely personal matter and its freedom is guaranteed by law, but it should not degenerate into manifestations which tend towards proselytism." Ţîrle also criticised the Bucharest City Hall for authorising the march. Ţîrle has in the past made derogatory comments about other minorities, such as the Roma, Hungarians, and religious minorities, and in December 2006 the Democratic Party voted to no longer endorse him as a candidate for the next European Parliament elections. It is important to note that the Mayor of Bucharest, Adriean Videanu, who authorised the pride parade, is also a member of the Democratic Party.
+Gigi Becali, known for his repeated homophobic comments at previous LGBT events, stated, "I have nothing against them, but why they make a parade, I don't understand. Let them meet in the park, 300, 500 of them, to make a show. I would have nothing against it, but a parade, propaganda? It is abnormal." Becali, who is also the president of the Steaua football club, stated that he doesn't want any more homosexuals coming to Ghencea Stadium, but later appeared to contradict himself by saying "Discrimination? It's discrimination if I don't let them come. Where's the discrimination?" The National Council for Combating Discrimination announced that it will be investigating if Becali's comments breach Romania's anti-discrimination laws, which also cover speech. In a later interview, however, Becali declared, "I love them  in the same way that I love all other people. They can marry at the City Hall, every day, 10 of them if they want to. But in church, they don't have a place.
+Corneliu Vadim Tudor, the president of the far-right Greater Romania Party, stated that public manifestations of homosexuality should be banned, because they "violate the sight, hearing and education of children" and "provoke the Church". However, he added that violence against LGBT people is a "form of barbarism", and should not be accepted under any circumstances.
+The fifth GayFest took place between 19 and 24 May 2008. It included a film festival, public art exhibitions and public discussions, as well as the traditional gay pride parade through central Bucharest. Although counterdemonstrations were organised by Noua Dreaptă and other far-right groups, there were no violent incidents at the 2008 pride parade, with very significant police presence protecting participants. However, turnout was lower than at previous events, with only around 200-300 people marching.
+The 2008 film festival component of GayFest will be the largest to date, showcasing fifteen LGBT-themed films and documentaries from around the world. A few films from the 2007 festival will also be repeated. They are:
+GayFest 2009 took place between 18 and 24 May. The political theme of the 2009 GayFest was the legalisation of civil partnerships . Alongside the now-traditional gay pride parade, there was a film festival, photographic exhibitions, concerts, workshops, lectures, public debates and parties. For the first time, ACCEPT entered into a partnership with Metrorex, the operator of the Bucharest Metro, to display anti-homophobia advertising in several metro stations. During GayFest, the United Kingdom Embassy also hosted a "Diversity Barbecue" which drew together human rights activists and representatives from NGOs.
+The GayFest pride parade closed the festival, taking place on Saturday, 23 May at 17:00. Around 200 to 300 participants took part. The parade received substantial police protection, and no anti-gay violence was reported. It was more festive than in previous years, with pop music, balloons and giant rainbow flags. Several European officials attended, including MEPs Michael Cashman, Michel Teychenné and Helene Goudin, the Ambassadors of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Sweden, the directors of the Polish Institute and Goethe Institute in Bucharest, and Boris Dittrich, the LGBT rights director at Human Rights Watch. During the parade, British Ambassador Robin Barnett announced that the United Kingdom supported the gay rights struggle and was pleased at the "fantastic celebration" for diversity taking place in Bucharest. The Dutch Ambassador, Jaap Louis Werner, also held a speech, stating, "We are here to show our solidarity. We know what you want. You want to be treated like normal people with the same protections before the law". Letters of support were received from the French Ambassador to Romania, as well as three openly LGBT officials from the United Kingdom: Angela Eagle, Ben Bradshaw and Chris Bryant.
+A counter-march against the gay pride parade, titled "March for Family", was held on Friday, 22 May by several conservative Orthodox groups. Nevertheless, while 1000 participants were expected, less than 100 took part. Furthermore, for the first time, the Romanian Orthodox Church announced its opposition to the anti-gay march, stating that "noisy street manifestations" were incompatible with religion. The Church nonetheless expressed its continuing opposition to GayFest, arguing that it was a threat to traditional family values.
+GayFest 2010 took place successfully. Like last year, the pride parade took place without any violent incidents. For the first time, the parade received official support from the Green Party, with the Executive President of the Party, Remus Cernea, taking part, along with other high-ranking members from the party.
+The eight annual edition of Gay Fest took place between 30 May and 4 June. About 150 people participated in the parade on 4 June. US ambassador Mark Gitenstein, UK ambassador Martin Harris, Swedish ambassador Anders Bengtcen, officials of the Romanian Council Against Discrimination and of Amnesty International joined the parade. Earlier that day, far-right nationalist group Noua Dreaptă held a counter demonstration.
+About 200 people participated in the parade. British MEP Michael Cashman, US ambassador Mark Gitenstein, UK ambassador Martin Harris were there. Romanian pop singer, model and actress Loredana Groza was the ambassador of the program "Eu sunt! Tu?" , an LGBT program from Romania whose aim is to fight against discrimination and stigma and to prevent the HIV/AIDS.
+The tenth edition of Gay Fest took place between 3 and 8 June. The parade was held on the last day of the festival. Even though the day had started with a counter parade against homosexuals, the Gay Fest parade ended without incident. About 400 people participated in the parade, according to NGO ACCEPT, the organizer of the festival.
+Bucharest's Pride march took place on 23 May, with no significant incidents during the march. The event attracted over 1,000 participants for the first time ever.
+The 12th edition of Bucharest Pride attracted a record 2,500 participants and unfolded under the sign of family – "The family that three million Romanians try to redefine, limiting its meaning", referring to the petition signed by three million Romanian citizens who call for the amendment of the Constitution so that marriage be defined as an exclusive reunion between a man and a woman and not between two spouses, as currently stipulated in the Constitution. Participants in the march campaigned for non-discrimination, equal rights, including the right to civil marriage, and visibility for the LGBT community. The march was attended, among others, by politician Remus Cernea and singer Andreea Bălan.
+The 2021 pride event  celebrates 20 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Romania. A decision by the municipality to reroute the march from its traditional route sparked protests, but following discussions mediated by UK ambassador Andrew Noble, the municipality reversed its decision and allowed the march to take place along its previous route. Under COVID-19 restrictions only 500 people are allowed to attend, but organizers expect more to show up.
+The event attracted over 10,000 participants, a similar number achieved in the 2019 edition, yet a notable increase from the 2,500 participants recorded in 2016.

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+Budapest Pride, or Budapest Pride Film and Cultural Festival, is Hungary's largest annual LGBT event. Of the week-long festival, the march is the most visible event. The march has historically been known under several names, including Budapest Gay Dignity Procession , and has taken place each year since 1997, usually on the first Saturday of July, proceeding along Budapest's most expansive thoroughfare, Andrássy Avenue, between the City Park  and Elizabeth Square . Though much smaller in scale than similar gay pride parades in Western Europe and the Americas, around one to two thousand marchers typically participate in the Budapest procession. Radical right-wing demonstrators and hooligans have severely disrupted the Budapest Pride marches held in 2007 and 2008, casting uncertainty over the future of the event. However, Budapest Pride has been held successfully in the intervening years, with minimal incidents.
+In November 2021, Budapest Pride board member Viktória Radványi was honoured with a "Generation Change Award" at the 2021 MTV Europe Music Awards in Budapest.
+Although the march is the best known aspect of the festival, the Budapest Pride Film and Cultural Festival includes many other events, such as its film festival, discussions, exhibitions, theater productions, author readings, picnics, speeches, religious events, concerts, and parties. In 2011, the festival had over 100 events.
+There was only a smattering of public protest against the first eleven Budapest gay parades, until the one held in July 2007.  In 2003, prominent right-wing radical György Budaházy and a group of about 30 anti-gay protestors blew whistles and chanted slogans such as "dirty queers" at marchers as the parade crossed the Elizabeth Bridge. In 2004, a few activists from the center-right Christian-Democratic Hungarian Democratic Forum political party stood along the route of the procession blowing whistles and holding signs displaying quotations from the Bible, while police took one man into custody for throwing a rock at an officer at the beginning of the parade. In 2005, about 10 neo-Nazis taunted paraders at one point along the route, while the notorious blogger, inciter and media manipulator Tamás Polgár  rigged to a pillar of the Chain Bridge a rolled-up, egg-filled sign, which he intended to unfurl via remote control as the procession crossed the bridge, thus dropping its contents down onto the marchers. However, the remote-control malfunctioned, forcing Tomcat and an accomplice to climb up the pillar to manually disengage the sign reading "stupid queer gays" , though only after the parade had passed underneath. In 2006, about a dozen activists from the radical right-wing Jobbik  political party and another dozen protestors affiliated with the right-wing extremist Hungarian Self-Defense Movement  heckled participants in the parade.
+The 12th Budapest Gay Dignity Procession held on July 7, 2007, was the first to encounter substantial, belligerent protest. Some 2000 participants marched from Procession Square  past Heroes' Square down Andrássy Avenue. Several balloon-decorated flatbed trucks marshaled the parade down the avenue, blaring techno-pop from mounted speakers and carrying the standard array of shirtless young men, transvestites, neo-punk lesbians and campy-costumed figures, including a man in tight shorts, a black shirt, and a clerical collar, who held a big pink book bearing a cross and was later to become the focus of attacks from the far-right media, particularly Kuruc.info.
+Several hundred police escorted the procession in full riot gear, ready to protect participants from expected aggression en route to the parade's destination at a dance club located on the Pest side of the Danube called Buddha Beach. Just as in 2006, the extraparliamentary Jobbik party and the Hungarian Self-Defense Movement had organized demonstrations against the gay parade. However a culture of right-wing public protest and violent hooliganism had emerged in Hungary during the intervening year with the outbreak of massive anti-government demonstrations known collectively as the "fall disturbances"  in September and October 2006, prompting police to expect that the 2007 protests against the gay parade would be much more extensive and aggressive.
+Approximately 500 protesters awaited the parade behind a metal-fence barrier erected at the site of Jobbik's officially announced anti-gay demonstration at the corner of the Oktogon, chanting "dirty queers!" and pelting marchers with eggs as they turned south onto the Grand Boulevard  on their way toward Buddha Beach. A rank of riot police wedged between the procession and the protesters, who had begun to bombard participants with, in addition to eggs, empty beer cans, smoke bombs and plastic bags filled with petroleum jelly and sand, the latter alluding to the Hungarian slang word homokos, literally "sandy", for "gay". Police chased those seen throwing these objects at marchers up to several hundred yards down the sidewalk, eventually arresting and charging eight protesters for disturbing the peace. Police narrowly averted a more brutal assault on the parade, chasing off a group of approximately 30 hooligans, who discarded bags full of empty bottles and fist-sized rocks as they fled down a side street. Jeering protesters accompanied the parade all the way to its terminus, dispersing following a brief standoff with riot cops and police dogs during which they changed slogans such as "Queers into the Danube, Jews after them!" and "Gyurcsány  get out!"
+The Budapest police, after effectively buffering marchers from the protesters during the procession, failed to protect people leaving Buddha Beach later that evening, when, according to parade organizers, 11 attacks took place in the vicinity of the club against gays, two of whom required medical treatment. A freelance photographer for the Hungarian News Agency MTI won 2nd place in the 2007 World Press Photo contest with his photograph of two gay German tourists who were among those attacked following the parade. Several civil organizations in Hungary and Amnesty International criticized the Budapest police  for failing to sufficiently protect participants in the 2007 Budapest gay parade, both during and after the event. The BRFK subsequently initiated disciplinary procedures against one officer for failing to respond to a call for police protection following the parade.
+Budapest Police Chief Gábor Tóth, evidently aware that the 2008 Gay Dignity Procession was likely to elicit even greater protest than that in 2007, on June 11 informed the event's organizer, the Rainbow Mission Foundation , that the BRFK had prohibited its request to hold the 2008 parade along Andrássy Avenue on July 5 on the grounds that it would "impede the circulation of mass transit and vehicle traffic". Fifteen Hungarian gay organizations, including the Rainbow Mission Foundation, sent a letter to the BRFK the following day protesting the decision, urging the Budapest police "not to try to prevent expected right-wing extremist attacks on the parade by forbidding it, but to do its duty to defend the marchers from expected aggression." Additionally, liberal Budapest Mayor Gábor Demszky refuted Chief Tóth's claim that the parade would unduly obstruct traffic in the vicinity of Andrássy Avenue, while the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union  and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee  human rights organization also denounced the BRFK's prohibition of the parade.  The BRFK retracted its prohibition of the gay parade the very same day, on June 12, announcing one week later that it had approved the Rainbow Mission Foundation's original request to hold the event along the established route on the customary first Saturday of July.
+The most influential right-wing extremist groups and websites immediately went on the offensive following the announcement that the Budapest gay parade would be held as usual in 2008. On June 18, Budaházy and his close associate, the leader of the radical-nationalist 64 Counties Youth Movement  László Toroczkai, issued a joint communiqué regarding the parade:
+We will not permit aberrant foreigners of this or that color to force their alien and sick world on Hungary. We hereby publicly declare that we, ourselves, will defend the Hungarian capital. Every Hungarian patriot is needed! Stand among the defenders, or form defensive forces from among your groups and organizations, and come to the Oktogon in Budapest at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of July 5.! It is our moral duty to act....
+The Rainbow Rampage, the aggressive pederast caravan of degenerate foreigners that is traversing Europe, will arrive to its final stop in Budapest on July 4, Freemasonry's biggest holiday and the anniversary of the signing of America's Declaration of Independence, in order to celebrate queerdom in our capital for several days on end. Beginning at 4 p.m. on July 5, this exhibitionist queer rabble will hold a public procession and street ball, trampling under foot all fundamental traditional moral values and proclaiming Hungary's occupation by aberrants and foreigners.
+HOWEVER.
+During these days, we Hungarian patriots will recall the Battle of Pressburg in which the forces of our founding father, Prince Árpád, inflicted a crushing defeat upon the western armies....
+The army of Hunnia will defend the capital of the Hungarians on July 5, 2008!.
+All the major right-wing radical websites in Hungary published this announcement, whose authors arguably command the greatest capacity in the country to mobilize right-wing extremists for engagement in violent street action. Also on June 18, the Hungarian Self-Defense Movement , which had been involved in organizing protests against the previous two gay parades, published an appeal on the organization's website under the heading "On July 5 we will attack out of self-defense!":
+We summon all Hungarians, responsibly minded families, fathers and mothers,
+to all come and expel the pederast horde once and for all! We cannot simply watch passively as  such genetic trash shows a bad example for our children! ... We call upon all Hungarian self-defenders to resist on Saturday afternoon on July 5, we will meet at the designated place! We will unite our forces at the Oktogon!
+On June 28, an anonymous self-described founding member of a fan club for the Budapest soccer team Ferencváros, whose supporters have a highly publicized history of hooliganism and participation in right-wing extremist street aggression,  published a letter on MÖM 's website stating that "we are answering the Hungarian Self-Defense Movement's appeal":
+We will be there! With weapons if we must, with bare hands if we must, but we will not let things stand as they are! Let those who oppose us tremble with fear!
+On June 19, Tomcat proposed on his website Bomb Factory  that a straight parade be held at the same time as the gay parade:
+The annual "gay pride" day is coming as usual. The queers spend millions on their exhibitionism so that a few hundred people can put their perversions on display for the world. Are there enough healthy, heterosexual people out there, who marching opposite them, not shouting, not throwing things , perhaps holding hands with their partners, to show that the love of the opposite sex is worth more?
+On June 26, Hungary's primary right-wing extremist website, Kuruc.info, published a list of gay bars, cafés, saunas, guest houses and hotels in Budapest. This was an ominous development, since beginning in December 2007 a group called the Arrows of the Hungarians National Liberation Army  had firebombed several residences and other locations implicitly identified as targets on the website. Early the following morning, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the entry of the gay-frequented Action Bar in Budapest, while on the morning of July 2, four Molotov cocktails were tossed into one of the city's sauna gay bathhouse in Budapest, slightly injuring one of the establishment's employees. On July 3, Kuruc.info reported on the latter firebombing under the title Cleansing Fire Licks Another Mini Sodom in which the website noted that "Incidentally, we drew the attention of our readers to the sauna, just in case they wanted a little hot air." Though the Arrows of the Hungarians did not claim responsibility for the firebombings as the organization had done in previous cases, usually publishing video recordings of the attacks, Kuruc.info asked the largely rhetorical question following the assault on the Action Bar "has the Arrows of the Hungarians National Liberation Army struck again?" Kuruc.info further prepared its readers for the gay parade with the publication of detailed instructions, including pictures, two days before the event, on how to fill eggs with dye for throwing at the marchers in the procession.
+Tomcat, meanwhile, began the process of organizing his heterosexual counter-procession, though he was first compelled to explain how it was that he had actually marched in the 2004 Gay Dignity Procession:
+... I participated carrying a "NOT ME" sign, though I did not want to eliminate or throw things at anybody. In fact, I found the events that took place there to be absolutely acceptable.... Yes, I observed the 2004 queer parade from the inside. I also took photos and chatted with the queers. I met among them some old buddies as well. And I still maintain that there was no problem with that parade. But I also maintain that now, in 2008, go ahead and bombard them with all sorts of stuff and eradicate their organizers. . . In 2004, and earlier I think, there were neither fags running around half naked, nor pink-Bible-licking obscenities, nor rump rummagers jumping all over each other in public.... However, one year later the Pride had totally changed and was not simply a party for queers. Politics had got hold of it by that time, the lackey media did the job of vilifying the "homophobes," and the whole thing degenerated into an unprincipled advertisement for wild-liberal values.... The standard has been sinking ever since. It is no accident that fewer and fewer normal homos support the parade.... With regard to my allegedly boundless homophobia, it is enough to note that Bomb Factory has a gay editor as well. He doesn't make any particular secret out of it. And I have several gay friends and acquaintances besides him as well. None of them will be there  on Saturday. Surely they are "far-right extremists" too.
+On July 1, Tomcat summoned his so-called "factory dwellers" to prepare for the Bomb Factory counter-procession:
+There are only a couple of days left until the Saturday street battles, so it is time that we began getting ready. Of course, we would not for the world harm those dear homosexual people, who want to truck down the entire length of Andrássy Avenue, but let's at least show them that we are here on this world as well.... We welcome all our healthy, heterosexual friends and also those homos who condemn those lunatics dressed in their disgusting garb and kindly decline to have these people represent them. Our procession will travel along the same route as that of the queers, and we will proceed down Andrássy Avenue opposite them. We won't yell, we won't throw things, we won't murder—the Kuruc people will do that in our place.
+And finally, on the night before the parade, Tomcat issued a last reminder:
+You haven't forgotten have you? ... We welcome everybody, and bring your partners with you. Those who would like to beat up queers can join Budaházy's group, though I don't see a very good opportunity to do this with so many cops around.... Our demonstration will not be violent, we aren't going to throw things or fight. Of course, it is still possible to thwart the queer parade. A kind Bomb Factory dweller is organizing an egg-throwing team. Those interested should contact....
+The far-right Movement for a Better Hungary , which had led efforts to organize demonstrations against previous Budapest Gay Dignity Processions, remained inactive with regard to the 2008 parade until the morning of the event, when the party published the following communiqué on its website:
+Ban the Queer Procession from Budapest!
+The instigators motivated in the force field of the extreme-liberal SZDSZ are marching on the streets to demonstrate in favor of their deviant views this year as well.... We inform the misguided people preparing to take to the streets: you can still turn back before you collide the walls of awakening and organizing social resistance!
+There is currently a government-inspired show-like trial taking place against the Hungarian Guard , while liberals and left-wingers within several local councils have initiated the prohibition of this charitable organization from their territory, including Budapest. At the same time, the police, in conformity with  Gábor Demszky's expectations, chose to review their original decision and permitted the initially banned homosexual event....
+We request that the self-defined Christian-conservative MDF and Fidesz-KDNP not distance themselves from Jobbik and the Hungarian Guard, but from the true extremists. We urge them to read the Old Testament, Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
+The BRFK had good reason to suspect, as the political daily Népszabadság reported on June 25, that "marchers would be exposed to more and increasingly brutal attacks than last year." All of Hungary's main right-wing extremist leaders, organizations and media—Budaházy, Torockai, Tomcat, the Hungarian Self-Defense Movement, the Hungarian National Committee Jobbik, ostensibly the Arrows of the Hungarians Liberation Army, Kuruc.info, Bombagyár, Holy Crown Radio , Barikád.hu—had rallied with an exceptional degree of unity and purpose behind the cause of "defending the capital" against the "pederast horde."  Far-right attacks on gay parades held the previous weekend in Brno Czech Republic and Sofia, Bulgaria, both of which resulted in a considerable number of arrests, were also a powerful portent of what was likely to take place at the 13th Budapest Gay Dignity Procession.
+At the parade, as police helicopters hovered overhead, protesters broke down the tall metal fences surrounding the parade's endpoint at Heroes' Square.  They threw eggs, bottles, rocks, and firecrackers at the marchers, and cobblestones and gasoline bombs at police.  At least 10 people were injured, including two policemen, and three media trucks were damaged; they hit, among others, liberal MP Gabor Horn, and broke the window of the police car in which Hungarian Socialist Party MEP Katalin Levai was riding with Gábor Szetey, the first out gay member of Hungary's government.  Riot police dispersed the protesters using tear gas and water cannons.  A total of 45 to 49 people were arrested. The police protection of the parade had an estimated cost of 500 000 dollars  for the protection of ~200 gay demonstrators witch became an unusually high cost per person in Hungary.
+The police kept protestors, but also other onlookers and well-wishers, one block away from Andrássy Road, so that the march had no contact to the public, although it was extensively covered by television. An infiltrator attempted to disrupt the march by bursting balloons, but was frightened away by booing.
+However, some protestors threw stones at the police and burned the rainbow flag used by the organisers of the parade.

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+Cape Town Pride is an annual gay pride event ending with a pride parade held in Cape Town, South Africa. It usually runs from around the end of February and is a week of festivals, parties and other events.
+The first South African pride parade was held in Johannesburg on 13 October 1990, the first such event on the African continent. The first pride parade in Cape Town was held in 1993, and it has been held as an annual event subject to interruptions thereafter.: 169
+The parade resumed after a period in 2001 as part of a week-long Cape Town Pride event,: 172  from 10 to 17 December. The 2001 event was met with a protest organised by local pro-life organisations outside the Church of the Sacred Heart in Somerset Road where a Gay Pride "Dignity and Diversity" Interfaith Service was being held.
+Cape Town Pride was not held in 2003 when the event timing was moved to February.
+In 2006, the event adopted the theme "Uniting Cultures of Cape Town", in 2007 "The Carnival of Love", in 2009 "Pink Ubuntu – Uniting Cultures of Cape Town", and in 2011 "Love Our Diversity".

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+Capital City Pride in Olympia, Washington is a non-profit organization that hosts a season of events culminating with the two-day Capital City Pride festival, and a parade. The festival celebrates the region's LGBT  community. The Pride festival is held at Sylvester Park in downtown Olympia. Traditionally, The Capital City Pride parade and festival was held on a Saturday, but was moved to Sunday in 2007. In 2010, the festival grew to two full days.
+Capital City Pride began as a grass roots organization in 1991.  By 2000, it began to operate under the auspices of the Olympia Rainbow Center while operating as an independent group with a committee and elected officers. The organization expanded their marketing and sponsorship work in 2007 and 2008.
+The Olympia Pride festival and rally are hosted to celebrate the LGBT communities; to honor civil rights gains in the past year and to highlight youth activists and honor long-time activists for their commitments. Entertainment and the pride parade are highlights of the day. The Olympia Pride festival has grown over the years and now approximately 12,000 to 15,000 people attend the contemporary pride festivals.  The festival is funded through private fundraising and sponsorship, grants and tourism promotion funds.
+The organization annual budget is approximately $40,000.
+The 1992 Pride Rally and march were organized by a new group of organizers whose efforts were chronicled in a documentary titled, "Small Town Pride" produced by Olympia-based film maker Marilyn Freeman. By 1993, Capital City Pride was founded with the sole purpose of hosting the annual Pride events.
+The executive committee consists of a president, which the group refers to as chair, vice president, referred to as co-chair, treasurer  and secretary.
+In 2016, the annual Pride Parade in downtown Olympia drew over 20,000 spectators, many of whom were first-time attendees who came to show their support of the LGBT community following the Orlando massacre.
+http://olyarts.org/2017/06/11/pride-overview/

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+The Chandigarh LGBTQ Pride Walk is an annual march held as part of the "Garvotsava" pride week celebrations in Chandigarh, the capital city of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. The event aims to celebrate and bring together the LGBTQ community and its supporters.
+Chandigarh was the first city in North India after Delhi to have a pride march in 2013. The parades in Chandigarh are spearheaded by Saksham Trust. The Pride March route typically begins at the Panjab University Student Centre and culminates at Sector 17 plaza in Chandigarh. The march incorporates several local folk dances such as Dhol and Gidda.
+The first pride march in Chandigarh was held on 15 March 2013. The parade started from Panjab University Student Centre and ended at the City Centre, which is at the heart of Chandigarh. Although more than 500 people were expected to participate, the turnout was low with only 100 people participating in the city's first pride march.
+The second edition of the Chandigarh Pride Walk was organised on 2 March 2014. It was the culmination of the LGBT celebrations week which started on February 23. The celebrations came against the backdrop of the Supreme Court Verdict on Section 377 on 11 December 2013. The week long celebrations included a conversation on Gender and Sexuality and a Qawwali and Kavi Durbar. During the march, participants raised slogans against the Supreme Court ruling on Section 377 and sought legal and social protections for the LGBT community.
+The city hosted the LGBTIQ Pride parade for the third time on 8 March 2015. This edition saw the participation of a large number of people, especially students of Panjab University, who did not identify themselves as LGBTIQ, but turned up in support of the LGBTIQ people. Students' organisations such as Ambedkar Students' Association  and Students For Society  had extended support for the march.
+The fourth edition of the city's pride march took place on 6 March 2016. Several student organisations from Panjab University, IISER and Chitkara University were expected to participate in this edition of the pride march. Their demands included: enactment of comprehensive anti-discrimination laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, sex, class, caste, religion, tribe, ability, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation, effective implementation of the  provisions of the Supreme Court judgment in NALSA versus Union of India on the rights of trans people, stringent action against violence against minorities and the silencing of freedom of expression and dissent, and repeal of Section 377  of the Indian Penal Code.
+In 2017, the city named the LGBTQ celebrations "Garvotsav"  which was a week-long event which wrapped up with the Pride march on 26 March 2017. The festival included a flash mob, plays, film screenings, seminars and other events to encourage open discussion. The march was organised by Saksham Trust and Alankar Theatre Chandigarh with support from the Canadian embassy.
+The 2018 Chandigarh Pride Week "Garvotsav" celebrations began on March 12 and ended with the Pride March on 18 March 2018. The event was organised by Saksham Trust and Nazariya Foundation, a short film productions company. The Canadian Embassy also co-sponsored the celebrations for the second consecutive year.
+The 2019 Chandigarh Pride Week "Garvotsav" starting earlier than previous years, 25 February, ended with a pride march on 3 March 2019. More than 250 people attended the pride march from Punjab University to Sector 17. With this year a special focus on transgender sexual identity acceptance, the walk was organized by Mangalmukhi transgender welfare society and Saksham trust. The pride week got co-funded by the Canadian embassy for the third consecutive year. Several other organisations, Humsafar trust, Harmless Hugs, FPAI and Keshav Suri Foundation collaborated with the NGOs for the walk.

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+The Chicago Pride Parade, also colloquially  called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is the annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. It is considered the culmination of the larger Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, as promulgated by the Chicago City Council and Mayor of Chicago. Chicago's Pride Parade is one of the largest, by attendance, in the world. This event is taken place outside and celebrates Equal Rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Also known as the celebration of LGBTQ Rights.
+The first parade was organized on Saturday, June 27, 1970, as a march from Washington Square Park  to the Water Tower, but then many of the participants spontaneously marched on to the Civic Center  Plaza. For many years, the parade was held only in Lake View East, a neighborhood enclave of the Lakeview community area. Recent parades have expanded their outreach  by extending the route into the Uptown neighborhood, beginning at the corner of Broadway and Montrose. The parade then proceeds south on Broadway to Halsted, continues south on Halsted to Belmont, then east on Belmont to Broadway and finally south again on Broadway to Cannon Drive and Lincoln Park.
+With the increasing political participation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans and the community's relatively high financial resources through political action groups and as individual donors, Illinois politicians have increased their presence at the Chicago Pride Parade. Both the Illinois Democratic and Republican parties have been heavily represented, most noticeably by former Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat, and former Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, a Republican. Both had strong support from many gay and lesbian voters.
+On June 28, 2009, more than 500,000 spectators watched the 40th Annual Chicago Pride Parade. Among the entries were several marching bands, dance troupes, twirlers, and many political figures. The 2010 parade featured an appearance from the Chicago Blackhawks' Brent Sopel and the Stanley Cup as part of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association's float. Sopel appeared in the parade to honor Brendan Burke, the gay son of the Maple Leafs' GM Brian Burke. Due to Chicago being one of the largest cities with a massive sports community, some other special guests have attended the Gay Pride Parade in Chicago, those include David Kopay , Billy Bean  and Greg Louganis .
+The 2011 parade included 250 entries and was attended by over 800,000 spectators, almost double the previous year, causing massive overcrowding and resulted in a reorganization of the parade route for the 2012 parade. Starting in 2013 the Chicago Pride Parade has reached over one million people each year, and the number continues to grow.
+In October 2019, Richard Pfeiffer, director of the Parade since 1974, died.
+The parade was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 parade was postponed to October 3, 2021, in the hopes that an in-person parade could be held. Due to Delta variant, on September 3, 2021, the parade was cancelled once again due to COVID-19. Organizers aim for the event to return in 2022 with its original scheduling.
+The year 2019 marked the 19th Annual Pre Parade Celebration, also known as Chicago's two day long Pride Festival. 2019's Chicago Pride Festival saw over 100,000 people, the festival is held on the Saturday and Sunday before the Pride Parade. Each year there is a suggested ten dollar donation while entering the festival for LGBTQ fundraisers, events, etc. The festival is open rain or shine and each year it is held in Boystown, this year it was located on Halsted Street from Addison to Grace Street. The streets are blocked off from traffic so the celebration can take place throughout the streets all weekend long. The hours of the Pride festival are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday prior to the Pride Parade. Each year there are multiple different performers performing on the three  main stages at the festival, some of this years performers included Betty Who, LeAnn Rimes, Pabllo Vittar, Alex Newell and Inaya Day. The Pre Parade Celebration is just one of the many events held in Boystown in the month of June.
+The Chicago Pride Parade is held on the last Sunday in June, so the weather  is usually hot. The average high temperature at O'Hare Airport for the parade day since 1970 is 83 degrees; the average low is 61 degrees; and 22% of parade days have seen measurable precipitation. The warmest pride parade was 99 degrees in 1983, and the wettest pride parade was in 1978 when 0.92 inches of rain fell.
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+The Cincinnati Pride Parade and Festival is a week-long celebration of the city's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,  Queer, and Asexual  community.  The festivities are typically held annually at the end of June but have happened as early as April and as late as July in various locations of Cincinnati, Ohio.
+Cincinnati Pride started in 1973. In 2018, the event had approximately 120,000 attendees. The pride parade serves as the anchor event. The event has corporate and non-profit sponsors, including presenting sponsor Delta Air Lines, as well as others including P&G, US Bank, Fifth Third Bank, The Kroger Co., and TriHealth. Various LGBT and affinity groups are involved, too, including Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG, GLSEN, Dykes on Bikes, Imperial Court System, and various BDSM groups. Churches, entertainers and politicians are also involved.
+The festival formed out of a political rally held in Fountain Square in Cincinnati. Today, the festival takes place at Sawyer Point Park and Yeatman's Cove. Traditionally held the last weekend in June, the Cincinnati Pride Festival, along with the Pride Parade, commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.
+In addition to the parade and festival, the event's organizers have expanded the celebration to include numerous fundraisers, gay-themed city bike rides, movie screenings, fashion shows featuring the work of local designers, brunches, and local events at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
+After the 40th anniversary of the festival, in 2013, Cincinnati Pride  incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of Ohio and was granted its tax exempt status as a public charity in November, 2015 by the IRS. It is governed by a volunteer board of trustees and ran entirely by volunteers. Before becoming an independent Pride organization, the event was run by various local LGBT groups, including the Greater Cincinnati Gay & Lesbian Coalition  the Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Cincinnati   and the Greater Cincinnati Gay Chamber of Commerce .
+Pride festivities across the country serve as commemorations of the Stonewall riots  which took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
+These events are still widely considered the single most important event leading up to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States today.
+The Anti-Vietnam War movement and "hippie" culture was in full force by the early 1970s and out of these sentiments gave rise to other politically-leftist organizations.  By 1972, Cincinnati’s first gay organization, The Cincinnati Gay Community , was established by Michael Weyand, Terry Flanagan, Carol Kipp, Richard  Jazwinski, Ronald Carter, Jack Ferguson, and Karl Owens.
+In April 1973, four years after the initial events surrounding the Stonewall riots, CGC organizers planned and carried out Cincinnati’s first gay march through Over the Rhine  and rally at Fountain Square. Although some of the original details are unclear, most reports state that initial attendance ranged from 12-40 individuals.
+Shortly after the 1973 rally and march, the CGC disbanded and the next city-wide Pride was not revived until 1978 when it fell under the auspices of the newly created Greater Cincinnati Gay Coalition.  The GCGC  became the Greater Cincinnati Gay and Lesbian Coalition in 1984.  Subsequently, the GCGLC  became the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Greater Cincinnati  in 1993.
+In 1995 when Cincinnati passed the notoriously anti-gay Issue 3 . Because of the city’s new ordinances, LGBT activism dropped sharply and a city-wide Pride event no longer seemed feasible.  As a result, smaller events popped up in more liberal neighborhoods across the metropolitan area including festivals in Lunken Playfield in Mt. Washington from 1996-1999. In 1999, Michael Blankenship, a local activist, held a small rally at City Hall.
+From 2000-2009, Northside , began holding a parade, rallies at Burnet Woods, and a festival at Hoffner Park as an independent committee chaired by Chris Good and then Ken Colegrove all advised by Michael "Goose" Chanak.  In 2004, The Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Greater Cincinnati carried out the two-day festival until 2010 when, in an effort to make the event more accessible to the Greater Tri-state area, organizers moved the parade to downtown Cincinnati and the festival to Fountain Square under the stewardship of the Greater Cincinnati Gay Chamber of Commerce.
+Although Northside did not host the official Cincinnati Pride Festival after 2009, Northside Pride continued to host their own event, later in the summer for the years 2010-2012.
+As Pride Parade and Festival attendance surged , the Greater Cincinnati Gay Chamber of Commerce worked with city officials to move the event from Fountain Square to Sawyer Point Park and Yeatman's Cove  in 2012.
+Following the 2013 festivities , Cincinnati Pride registered as an independent, non-profit organization becoming Cincinnati Pride, Inc. The 2014 festival marked the first celebration executed entirely under the organization's newly incorporated board of trustees and planning committee.
+As a result of the  COVID-19 pandemic, Cincinnati Pride was cancelled in 2020.  Initially, the event was scheduled for June 27, 2020 and then reset for October 3, 2020.  Both were cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. The annual fundraiser, Pride Night at Kings Island held generally the first Friday of September each year was also cancelled due to the pandemic.  On February 1, 2021 the Cincinnati Pride committee announced that the in-person 2021 Pride Parade and Festival has been cancelled due to COVID-19 but other events will be planned, as appropriate.

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+Columbus Pride  is an LGBTQ festival in Columbus, Ohio hosted by Stonewall Columbus. The event first took place in 1981, and has grown into the second largest LGBT pride event in the Midwest, behind Chicago. In 2014, Stonewall Columbus estimated over 300,000 participants. By 2018, the event rivaled Chicago in attendance. In 2019, Columbus Pride hosted about 500,000 people, making it the city's largest pride festival to date.
+The pride parades typically include marching bands, firetrucks, motorcycles, and floats covered in rainbow flags or balloons.
+The first pride parade in the city took place in 1981, drawing 200 people. Several of the attendees were afraid of marching so publicly, and so wore bags over their heads. Early parades in Columbus were marred by anti-LGBTQ protests, including in 1983, with demonstrators attributing AIDS to homosexuality . In 1999, two protesters tore down a pride flag from the Ohio Statehouse and burned it. The two were charged with riot and disorderly conduct and criminal damaging. One of the two returned in 2001 to burn another pride flag during Columbus Pride.
+The parade hosted LGBT activist celebrity George Takei in 2014 and Jim Obergefell, of Obergefell v. Hodges, in 2015. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 parade was postponed and ultimately canceled, with organizers moving to virtual events that took place later in the year.
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+Come Out with Pride  is a 501 nonprofit organization based in Orlando, Florida that has organized an annual pride event of the same name since 2005.  The group was cited as an example of the community activities centered at the Pulse nightclub following a terrorist attack on that location.
+The Metropolitan Business Association or Central Florida LGBT Chamber of Commerce sponsored the first pride parade in Orlando in 2005. In 2018, 175,000 people attended the parade, making it one of the largest pride events in Florida.
+The Come Out with Pride schedule spans a week of varied activities for attendees. The parade takes place in Lake Eola Park, located in Downtown Orlando.
+Recently, Come Out With Pride raised money via an online show. Come Out with Pride's Jeff Prystajko, who organized the fundraiser, says half of the money will go toward LGBTQ charities. The other half will go to LGBTQ people in Central Florida.
+This Florida-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
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+The Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival, hosted by Out Film CT and held annually in Hartford, Connecticut, is an American film festival with a focus on films created by and for members of the LGBTQ+ community.  Established in 1988, it is the longest running film festival in Connecticut. The festival is traditionally held in early June, when it's seen as a lead-in to other events during LGBTQ Pride Month. Shane Engstrom has been director or co-director of the festival since 2001. In 2021, Jaime Ortega was appointed as co-director alongside Engstrom.
+The most recent festival took place virtually in 2020 , and the next festival is planned for June 4 through 13, 2021, with a mix of in-person and virtual screenings.
+The festival was founded as the Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 1988 by William Mann and Terri Reid, and has run every year since, becoming the longest running film festival in Connecticut. In 2014, the festival was renamed as the Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival. Festival director Shane Engstrom described the motivation for the name changes as follows:
+It’s one of those ever-evolving things. There’s always been a kind of a push-and-pull regarding the term queer. Has it been reclaimed? Are people still offended by the word queer? It seems especially in youth culture kids are quicker to label themselves as queer in order to avoid being given other labels. They embrace the label queer. We wanted to reflect that in the name.
+In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the festival struggled to attract audiences due to "lack of publicity" and "gloomy films", however, over the subsequent decades, the festival grew in popularity and "began playing for sold-out crowds", with audiences reaching record numbers at the 32nd annual festival in 2019.
+According to Rainbow Times, New England's largest LGBTQ newspaper, the festival is "lauded as the most diverse film festival in the region" and "the screening process is rigorous".
+The festival holds its screenings at Trinity College's Cinestudio and it is traditionally held in early June, when it's seen as a lead-in to other events during LGBTQ Pride Month. Films are also shown at other venues, such as The Aetna Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Shane Engstrom has been director or co-director of the festival since 2001. In 2021, Jaime Ortega was appointed as co-director alongside Engstrom.
+In 2020, the festival hosted roughly 100 films from 25 countries, from a record 650 submissions. In an interview with Connecticut Post, Engstrom said the festival's aim is to create programming that "highlights our LGBTQ youth and elders, queer people of color, international perspectives, religion, history, comedies, tragedies, and stories of love."
+In 2021, the 34th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival will happen only eight months after the 33rd, which was held in October 2020 and was entirely virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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+Copenhagen Pride is Denmark's largest annual Human Rights festival, focused on LGBT issues. It involves the entire capital Copenhagen and is held in August. A colourful and festive occasion, it combines political issues with concerts, films and a parade. The focal point is the City Hall Square in the city centre. The festival usually opens on the Wednesday of Pride Week, culminating on the Saturday with a parade. In 2017, some 25,000 people took part in the parade with floats and flags, and more than 300,000 people were out in the streets to experience it.
+In addition to the Copenhagen Pride, there is a smaller annual pride in Aarhus and the MIX Copenhagen LGBT film festival.
+Copenhagen Pride began in 1996 when Copenhagen was the European Capital of Culture and hosted the Europride event. From 1998 onwards the festival was called Mermaid Pride and from 2004 onwards Copenhagen Pride. During the first years the festival was held in June, but in 1999 it was moved to August. The city's pride festival has been held every year since 1996, one of the outstanding events being held in connection with the World Outgames in 2009. In addition to the summer festival, the first Copenhagen Winter Pride was held in February 2015. In 2017 Copenhagen Pride won the bid to host WorldPride in 2021 that will be a 11-day celebration of love, equality and human rights. WorldPride 2021 will be combined with EuroGames hosted by the LGBT sports organisation, Pan Idræt.
+Presenters for various shows during the Pride week.
+Pride song is a song which since 2009, has been chosen, when relevant, to represent Copenhagen Pride.
+Musicians and other artists who have performed at various shows arranged by Copenhagen Pride.

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+D.C.  Black Pride is the first official black gay pride event in the United States and one of two officially recognized festivals for the African-American LGBT community. Since 1991, tens of thousands from the D.C. metro area and beyond gather for special celebrations and events to acknowledge the progression of the black LGBT community every Memorial Day weekend. The success of D.C. Black Pride inspired the creation of elaborate annual official black pride events in other major cities across the country. Annually, over 40,000 is expected which establishes it as the second largest black pride festival in the world.
+D.C. has long been a popular destination for black LGBT people as a result of its large black LGBT community and progressive reputation. D.C. was among the first in the nation to allow same-sex marriage and establish LGBT protections laws. Since 1978, D.C. has been home to the nation's first black LGBT political advocacy group called the D.C. Coalition of Black Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals.
+D.C. Black Pride is a program of the Center for Black Equity . The CBE is a coalition of Black Pride organizers formed to promote a multinational network of LGBT  Prides and community-based organizations.
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1	+ Dallas Black Pride is an annual five-day event to celebrate the emerging black LGBT community in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The event has been in existence since 1996. It is held in conjunction with the State Fair of Texas and State Fair Classic in Dallas every fall . Dallas Her Pride is the official women's host of Dallas Black Pride. Annually, about 15,000 people participate in the planned pride events, making it the largest black gay pride event in Texas and one of the largest in the nation.
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3	+ Juneteenth Weekend is traditionally the first black gay pride event of the year in Dallas. As with the black pride event in the fall, there are many locals and visitors participating in the special events and celebrations empowering the black LGBT community in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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+Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, popularly known as “The Dinah”, is a five-day weekend getaway and music festival catering to the lesbian community that takes place annually in Palm Springs, California, United States. It is considered the largest lesbian event in the world. Held each spring, the event offers a series of pool parties, night entertainment, live concerts by Top Ten Billboard recording artists, comedy shows, sport-games and social networking opportunities.
+Primarily catering to the lesbian, queer and non binary demographics, The Dinah celebrates the tapestry of women around the world, attracting some 15,000-plus participants from countries such as Mexico, Australia, Canada, Russia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, China, South Africa, Belgium and Spain. Over the years, it has gradually attracted sponsors such as Miller Beer, MTV/LOGO Networks, here! TV, Sirius Radio, Showtime, O.B. Tampons, Shake Weight and Bacardi among others.
+The Dinah Shore Weekend was named after the late Dinah Shore – a singer, TV personality and renowned golfer, who was not a lesbian. Born Frances Rose Shore, in 1916, she lived in the Coachella Valley and is credited for having founded in Palm Springs the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle women's golf tournament, now known as the LPGA's ANA Inspiration. The Dinah initially coincided with the ANA Inspiration tournament, which took place the same weekend. The first unofficial Dinah Shore Weekend took place in 1986 when women began to flock to Palm Springs in conjunction with the tournament. "Loosely organized events with boomboxes and alcohol" took place during the tournament in the late 1980s.  After-dinner parties following the golfing turned benefits for the Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Service Foundation.
+The first Dinah Shore event was produced as a one night party in 1991 by Mariah Hanson under her Club Skirts Presents The Dinah Marquee at the Palm Springs Art Museum. The early years had the event as co-produced by Hanson and Sandy Sachs and Dr. Robin Gans  beginning in 1992. In 2003 the TV show The L Word had an episode set as happening at the weekend, which helped heighten its visibility. The following year, attendance doubled - the Saturday night party jumped to 2500 from 1200 the year prior. In 2005 the partnership between Hanson and Sach & Gans dissolved, with competing Palm Springs parties happening the same weekend. That state continued until 2012 when Sachs and Gans relocated to Las Vegas for an event which was called Girl Bar Dinah Shore Week Las Vegas.
+The event initially was viewed as a party weekend, with the New York Times in 2007 calling it "Girls Gone Wild for Girls" and Sports Illustrated calling it "lesbian spring break". Beginning in the late 2010s, the event started to rebrand itself as "the largest and most famous girl party music festival in the world" in an effort to move away from that image.
+In 2006 Guinevere Turner featured the event in the TV documentary A Lez in Wonderland .
+The Dinah has become a platform to mobilize the lesbian community around LGBT-oriented humanitarian projects and social issues. Hanson has teamed up with a variety of organizations and lent her support to various humanitarian causes and activist movements such as GLAAD, NOH8, LOVE IS LOUDER, The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Community Center,  The Women's Building, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Jon Sims Center, Ladies Philharmonic, Uhuru Movement, HRC, Lyon Martin Health Clinic, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center, and Equality California. Hanson just ended her second term on the Board of Equality California and also sits on the "Women's Night" committee for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Both organizations are named charity recipients of The Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend.

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+Doncaster Pride is South Yorkshire's biggest Gay Pride event and is one of the fastest growing Pride events within the UK. The first event was put together in just 3 months in 2007 and attracted more than 1,500 people. The following year drew a crowd of over 5,000. Currently the audience figures for the day's event is close to 20,000. The Patron of Doncaster Pride is Sheridan Smith.
+Doncaster Pride is held in Doncaster's Sir Nigel Gresley Square and is funded by local businesses, award foundations, various charitable organizations and donations from the public. The event includes a variety of activities for all ages, two stages and a float parade through the town. Doncaster Pride 2018 saw over 3,000 people in the Parade through the town, before the free 8 hours of entertainment on two stages.
+https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/pictures-and-video-colourful-carnival-atmosphere-at-the-12th-annual-doncaster-pride-1-9308907
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+The Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride Festival is an annual series of events which celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer  life in Dublin, Ireland. It is the largest LGBTQ+ pride festival on the island of Ireland. The festival culminates in a pride parade which is held annually on the last Saturday in June. The event has grown from a one-day event in 1974 to a ten-day festival celebrating LGBT culture in Ireland with an expanded arts, social and cultural content.
+The organisation, including the board of directors, is run by volunteers with some paid consultant help. The stated aim of Dublin Pride is to produce a professional LGBTQ+ pride festival and an annual Pride Day including the parade through Dublin city centre, a politically based rally and free entertainment all working for the improvement of LGBTQ+ communities.
+Following the New York Stonewall Riots of June 1969 and the annual commemorative Pride Parades in the US from 1970 onwards, the first public Gay rights demo took place in Dublin on 27 June 1974.
+The first Gay Pride Week events were held in June 1979, organised by the National Gay and Lesbian Federation.
+The first significant Pride Week in Ireland was organised for June 1980.
+In March 1983, prior to the first pride parade, a march was held from the city centre of Dublin to Fairview Park in the suburb of Fairview, Dublin, protesting the levels of violence against gay men and women in Ireland. In particular, the march was a reaction to the controversial judgement in the Flynn case, when suspended sentences on charges of manslaughter were given to members of a gang found guilty of the 1982 killing of Declan Flynn, a 31-year-old gay man, in Fairview Park, and the subsequent celebrations by some members of the local community following their release.
+The first pride parade was held on Saturday 25 June 1983. The parade was organised by the National LGBT Federation and followed a route through the city centre of Dublin, from St Stephen's Green to the GPO on O'Connell Street, where Cathal Ó Ciarragáin , Tonie Walsh  and Joni Crone  addressed the rally. Joni Crone rededicated the GPO as the "Gay Person's Organisation".
+Although week-long Pride events continued to be held throughout the 1980s, there were no parades from 1985 onwards.
+A pride parade took place in Dublin on Saturday 4 July 1992.
+There was a gay float from the National Gay and Lesbian Federation in the 1993 Saint Patrick's Day in Dublin for the first time. However some rotten fruit was thrown at the parade float by members of the public, the Guards arrested the perpetrator. The organisers won a Recognition Award for the float. There was little objection to the inclusion of the float from the St. Patrick's Day organisers , and most members of the public. An Irish-American contingent disapproved.
+On 24 June, during Pride week, the Oireachtas passed legislation to decriminalize homosexuality.  Public pride events were held on Saturday 26 June.
+The Gay Pride parade took place on Sat 24 June 1994. It was the 20th anniversary of the Irish gay movement and 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It was attended by several hundred people. Marchers chanted "We're gay, we're gay" to the tune of Olé, Olé, Olé. After-parade speeches took place at a stage in East Essex Street, Temple Bar.  The Lord Mayor, Thomás Mac Giolla, met representatives in the Mansion House as part of the celebrations
+Dublin Pride 1995 was on Saturday 1 July 1995. The then Lord mayor of Dublin, John Gormley, launched "Dublin Pride Week", whose theme was "Express Yourself". The Pride started in the Garden of Remembrance and the party was in The Furnace in Aston Place and were MC'ed by Lilly Savage. It was dedicated to the memory of The Diceman, Thom McGinty.
+Dublin Pride 1996 took place on Saturday 29 June 1996.
+The 1997 Dublin Pride Parade was on Saturday 28 June 1997, and was attended by over 2,000 people. Organises criticised the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Brendan Lynch, for not meeting them before the march, after finding previous pride parades were "undignified". Dublin Corporation gave a grant of £200 for the parade, and flew eight gay pride flags along the banks of the Liffey. The after parade party was in the Civic Offices.
+The 1998 parade took place on Saturday 27 June 1998, and started from the Garden of Remembrance. The second international Dyke March took place on Friday 26 June. The organisers met the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Ireland's first Queer Debs Ball took place in Russell Court Hotel in Harcourt Street on Monday 22 June. The RHA Gallery displayed an exhibition of gay and lesbian gay. A gay ceili took place on Tuesday 23 June in the Russell Court Hotel.
+The 1999 Dublin Pride parade took place on Saturday 26 June 1999, and went along O'Connell Street. Stephen Gately, singer in the famous Irish boy band Boyzone, had come out publicly shortly before the parade, and was discussed in the media at the time.
+The 2000 Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride March took place on Saturday 24 June 2000, and was attended by 6,000 people. Panti MC'ed the after party, which included performances from Shirley Temple Bar. Marching groups included Gloria, OUTHouse, and Greenbow, a gay and lesbian deaf group, which was their third year in the parade. Events raised funds for OUTHouse and HIV Respite Unit at Cherry Orchard Hospital.
+The 2001 parade took place on the weekend of 30 June - 1 July and was attended by 6,000 people. Gardai reported no problems. It was at the end of a 2-week Gay Pride Week.
+2002 Dublin pride took place on 19 June 2002, and was attended by 6,000 people. The Dublin Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade starts on Parnell Square at 2 pm and finishes at the Civic Offices amphitheatre on Wood Quay, where it was followed by the "Pride in the Park" party from 3-6 pm.
+The 2003 pride was a celebration of 10 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland, however, attendees were campaigning against the lack of state recognition of same-sex relationships, with the slogan "Legal Ten, Equal When". The parade took place on the weekend of 5–6 July 2003.
+The 2004 parade was held on 3 July 2004 and went from Parnell Square to the Civic Offices at Wood Quay for a free party. There was no trouble, except for a little bit of rain, despite recent robberies targeting gay men. About 3,000 people took part, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dublin Pride.
+The 2005 parade was held on 25 June 2005, and was attended by 10,000 people. BeLonG To, the LGBT youth group, took part, along with the usual music, dancing and celebration. The parade was led by an international group waving flags of various countries.
+The 2006 parade was held on 24 June 2006, and featured members of political parties, such as Labour and Sinn Féin. About 6,000 people took part. Panti led the post-parade party in the Civic Offices, which featured performances by Shirley Temple Bar, Alternative Miss Ireland winner Joanna Ryde, and Stellar Sound.
+The theme of the festival was "Pride n' Joy", emphasising the use of celebration as a positive medium to get a message across and to increase the visibility of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer  community. The grand marshal was Senator David Norris, and it took place on 23 June 2007, with thousands of attendees.
+Grand Marshal – Tonie Walsh
+Using the slogan "Always the bridesmaid, never the bride", the 2008 theme highlighted the lack of legal recognition under Irish law of any partnership rights for same-sex couples. The festival was launched by then Irish Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley, TD. Gormley recognised that the proposed partnership legislation was "not the full equality we are seeking, but it is a step towards full equality," and "of real practical value in itself and will make a real difference to the daily lives of many people in committed relationships". Performers at the post-rally gathering included Brian Kennedy, Maria McKee and Tara Blaise.
+The 2009 festival was held 19–28 June. The theme for 2009 was "Pride and Prejudice?" which celebrated pride in the LGBT communities while questioning the community and society in general on attitudes and prejudices. The festival aimed to celebrate diversity and challenge peoples' perceptions of it. This year introduced Dublin Pride's new Arts and Cultural committee to the festival. Turnout figures were estimated at a record 12,500. Performers at the traditional post-parade show at the Civic Offices, hosted by Panti, included, among others, Black Daisy , Michele Ann Kelly, Laura Steele, the Kylie Experience, and Katherine Lynch Senator David Norris was Grand Marshal.
+More than 22,000 people marched through Dublin on 26 June 2010. Doctor Lydia Foy was grand marshal.
+Performers at the Part in the Park at the Civic Offices included DJ Jules in a Lady Gaga tribute act and Niamh Kavanagh, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1993 who represented Ireland in the Contest again this year.
+Over 100,000 people participated in the 2010 ten-day Pride festival.
+With a Garda estimate at over 22,000, more people marched through Dublin on 25 June 2011 than ever before. Michael Barron of BelongTo Youth services was Grand Marshal of the parade.
+Performers at the event in the Civic Offices included Crystal Swing and Niamh Kavanagh, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1993 returning to perform for a 2nd year in a row.
+This year seen the introduction of a new event, a Dog Show which was produced as part of the family fun day.
+The 2012 festival ran from 22 June until 1 July 2012 with the Parade running on Saturday 30 June. That year saw the festival move from Dublin City Council's Civic Offices on Wood Quay to Merrion Square using three of the four roads around the park and family areas available to use inside the park. It also involved the parade route moving from its traditional route along Dame Street to further south in the city, along Baggot Street to the final destination Event at Merrion Square. The new venue has capacity for up to 15,000 people and space for vendors to sell food and beverages to the public. Panti Bliss was Grand Marshall of the Parade.
+This year marked the 30th anniversary of the parade and the event has grown to be the second largest parade in Ireland, behind the Patrick's Day event. The parade began at the Gardens of Remembrance on Parnell Square and wound its way to Merrion Square.
+The parade was disrupted on O’Connell Street shortly after it began this afternoon when a small number of protesters stood in front of the Labour Party bus which was taking part in the parade and stopped it from going any further. The protest, which is believed to have been an anti-property tax and anti-government protest, lasted around ten minutes.
+Grand Marshal this year was Anna Grodzka, a transgender MP from the Polish parliament.
+Grand Marshal this year was Colm O’Gorman, director of Amnesty International Ireland.
+The parade started at the Garden of Remembrance at 1.45pm, making its way by Trinity College and finishing at Merrion Square. This year the Garda band, in uniform, led the parade through the streets of Dublin.
+The parade took place on 27 June 2015.
+The parade took place on 26 June 2016. Max Krzyzanowski was Grand Marshall. It was the first Dublin Pride to take place after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ireland.
+The festival ran from 19 to 24 June with the parade taking place on 24 June 2017. That year saw a complete overhaul of the parade route due to extensive works to expand the Luas in the city centre with the parade starting at St. Stephen's Green and finishing at Smithfield Square in North Dublin, the new location for the final destination event. History was made this year when Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, became the first Irish Leader in office to attend the festival. Moninne Griffith of BeLonG To was Grand Marshall of the parade.
+The festival ran on the final week in June with the parade taking place on 30 June 2018. The theme was "We Are Family" and Sara Philips from Transgender Equality Network of Ireland  was Grand Marshall.
+The festival ran from 20 June 2019 to 29 June 2019. The theme was "Rainbow Revolution" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City that marked the start of the international Pride movement. Will St Leger was Grand Marshall of the festival.
+Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival was initially postponed until September 2020, but was later cancelled. Instead, the festival ran digitally online from 18 June 2020 to 28 June 2020. A virtual online parade took place and was led by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Tom Brabazon and frontline workers from across the city. The theme was "In This Together" to act responsibly in the best interests of all communities, to react to changing circumstances and to support the frontline workers. Vanessa O'Connell, an ISL interpreter seen at government press briefings, was Grand Marshall of the festival.
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+Trigger,Location,Occurs every,Start Year
+Swansea Pride,"Swansea, Wales",Last Saturday in June,
+National Gender and Sexual Minorities' Day (Nepal),Nepal,Puash 6 (Bikram Sambat),
+Sofia Pride,Sofia,June,2008
+Mezipatra Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,Prague,November,2000
+Pride Festival of Central PA,"Harrisburg, Pennsylvania",Last weekend in July,1992
+Berlin Pride,Berlin,June,1979
+Queens Pride Parade,"New York City, New York",June,1993
+Augusta Pride,"Augusta, Georgia",June,
+Capital Pride,,,
+Leeds Pride,"Leeds, England",First Sunday in August,
+Bhopal Pride March,Bhopal,May,2017
+International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival «Side by Side»,Saint Petersburg,October,2008
+Bristol Pride,"Bristol, England",July,2010
+Transgender Awareness Week,,Second week of November,
+Gay Games,Various,4 Years,1982
+UK Black Pride,"London, England",,
+Pride in Hull,"Hull, England",July,2001
+Nepal Pride Parade,Kathmandu,June 29,2019
+Mr Gay Wales,"Cardiff, Wales",,2005
+Dinah Shore Weekend,"Palm Springs, California",,
+Shanghai Queer Film Festival,Shanghai,September,2017
+Athens Pride,Athens,early June,2005
+Seksualiti Merdeka,Kuala Lumpur,August,2008
+Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival,Hong Kong S.A.R.,September,1989
+Shanghai Pride,Shanghai,June,2009
+Rainbow Reel Tokyo,Tokyo,July,1992
+Atlanta Pride,"Atlanta, Georgia",October,1971
+Transgender Day of Remembrance,,November 20,1999
+D.C. Black Pride,"Washington, D.C.",,1991
+Mr Gay World South Africa,,November,2009
+ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival,Shanghai,June,2015
+Varese Pride,"Varese, Lombardy",,
+Easter in Berlin,Berlin,,
+"International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia",,May 17,2005
+Equality Parade,Warsaw,May or June,2001
+BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival,"London, England",,1986
+QueerBomb Dallas,"Dallas, Texas",June,2014
+National Queer Arts Festival,San Francisco,,1998
+Dublin Pride,Dublin,June,1983
+Gay Days at Walt Disney World,"Orlando, Florida",June,1991
+EuroGames,Europe,,
+Kreuzberg Pride,Berlin,June,1998
+Pride Canterbury,"Canterbury, Kent, England",June,2016
+Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk,Kolkata,June,1999
+Białystok equality march,Białystok,July,2019
+Indy Pride Festival,"Indianapolis, Indiana",June,
+New York City Pride,"New York City, New York",June,1969
+Madrid Pride,Madrid,First weekend of July,1977
+Minsk Gay Pride,Minsk,October,1999
+Cape Town Pride,"Cape Town, Western Cape",February,2001
+Aarhus Pride,Aarhus,June,2012
+Dallas Black Pride,"Dallas, Texas",,
+Rainbow March,Sapporo,,1996
+Split Pride,Split,June,2011
+KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival,Mumbai,,2010
+Chandigarh LGBT Pride Walk,"Chandigarh, Punjab",March,2017
+World OutGames,Various,4 Years,2006
+Twin Cities Pride,"Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota",June,1972
+Helsinki Pride,Helsinki,June/July (week after Midsummer),2000; annually 2006
+Chicago Pride Parade,"Chicago, Illinois",June,1970
+European Lesbian* Conference,Vienna,October,2017
+International Mister Leather,"Chicago, Illinois",May,1979
+Utah Pride Festival,"Salt Lake City, Utah",June,1977
+Mr Gay UK,"Blackpool, England",,
+Hustlaball,Berlin,October,
+Bucharest Pride,Bucharest,,2004
+QFest,"Houston, Texas",,
+AIDS Walk New York,"New York City, New York",May,1986
+Teddy Award,Berlin,,1987
+Copenhagen Pride,Copenhagen,August,1996
+Osijek Pride,Osijek,September,
+International Ms. Leather,"San Francisco, California",,
+Nashville Pride,"Nashville, Tennessee",June 20,1988
+Abhimani Film Festival,Colombo,June,2006
+Tel Aviv Pride,Tel Aviv,June,
+WorldPride,,6 then 2 then 3 years,2000
+Lesbian and Gay City Festival,Berlin,June,
+Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,Bangkok,,2015
+Hong Kong Pride Parade,Hong Kong,November,
+Moscow Pride,Moscow,May,2006
+Zagreb Pride,Zagreb,,2002
+Liverpool Pride,"Liverpool, England",August 7,2010
+IndigNation,Singapore,August,2005
+San Francisco Transgender Film Festival,"San Francisco, California",November,1997
+Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival,"Hartford, Connecticut",,1988
+Folsom Europe,Berlin,September,2003
+Beijing Queer Film Festival,Beijing,Varies; Usually between May — September,2001
+Aomori International LGBT Film Festival,Aomori,July,2006
+Pink Dot,,,
+Beirut Pride,Beirut,May,2017
+Nottingham Pride,"Nottingham, England",July,1999
+Mr Gay Europe,Europe,August,
+Doncaster Pride,"Doncaster, Yorkshire, England",,
+Pride parades in South Africa,"Johannesburg, Gauteng",October,1990
+Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride,"Long Beach, California",May,1983
+Heritage of Pride,"New York City, New York",June,1969
+Budapest Pride,Budapest,June – July,1997
+International Day Against Homophobia,,May,2016
+Baltic Pride,Riga,,2009
+Houston Pride,"Houston, Texas",June,
+Salento Pride,"Brindisi / Gallipoli, Puglia",,2015
+Mr Gay Ireland,Dublin,October,2005
+Cincinnati Pride,"Cincinnati, Ohio",June,1973
+&PROUD,Yangon,January,2014
+Merlinka Festival,Podgorica,,2014
+Bangalore Queer Film Festival,Bangalore,February,
+Columbus Pride,"Columbus, Ohio",,1981
+Capital City Pride,"Olympia, Washington",,
+San Francisco Pride,"San Francisco, California",June,1970
+Hamburg Pride,Hamburg,August,1980
+Montenegro Pride,Podgorica,October 21,2013
+Gay Film Nights,Cluj-Napoca,,
+Sápmi Pride,"Lapland: Kiruna and Östersund in Sweden; Karasjok, Kautokeino and Trondheim in Norway; Inari and Utsjoki in Finland",,2014
+Alternative Miss Ireland,Dublin,March,1987
+Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,"Albuquerque, New Mexico and Santa Fe, New Mexico",October,2003
+GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival,"London, England",November,
+Taiwan Pride,Taipei,,
+Walking against Homophobia and Transphobia,Ankara,,
+Come Out With Pride,"Orlando, Florida",,
+East-Central Minnesota Pride,"Pine City, Minnesota","June 2, 2019 (15th Anniv.)",
+Vienna Pride,Vienna,July,1996
+EuroPride,Europe,Summer,1992
+National Coming Out Day,,October 11,1988

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1	+ East-Central Minnesota Pride is the yearly celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents in the rural area near Pine City, Minnesota, United States. It is just one of two prides held in a rural community in the U.S. The celebration is held during the first weekend in June in Pine City, Minnesota.
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+Easter in Berlin also known as Easter Berlin, founded in 1975, is the biggest Leather and Fetish event in Europe. It takes place in Berlin every year at Easter .
+The meeting is organized by the members of the club BLF, Berlin Leder und Fetisch e.V. .
+In the past, this event has elect edtheir titleholder, German Mr Leather on Easter Sunday. Each year thousands of Leather-, Rubber-, Sportswear-, Skin- and Uniformlovers from all over the World comes together to join all the different kinds of fetish events in Berlin. The leather and fetish event Folsom Europe is also held annually in the same neighborhood.
+The centre of this event is at Nollendorfplatz, a gay and queer neighborhood in the Western part of Berlin. More gay festivals in Berlin include Berlin Pride and Kreuzberg Pride.
+Easter Berlin
+Gay couple in Berlin
+Gay Bear at Nollendorfplatz, Berlin
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+Equality Parade  is an LGBT community pride parade held in Warsaw since 2001, usually in May or June. It has attracted at least several thousand attendees each year; 20,000 attendees  were reported in 2006, following an official ban in 2004 and 2005. In 2018, there were 45,000 attendees. In 2019, there were 50,000 attendees. It's a member of EPOA and InterPride.
+It is the largest gay pride parade in Central and Eastern Europe, and has been described as "the first Europewide gay pride parade held in a former Communist bloc country".
+Support for the parade is slowly growing in Poland; with the 2005 event supported by 33% of the Warsaw inhabitants, and 2010, by 45%.
+The organizers of the parade want to promote social equality in general,
+and draw attention to the problems faced by the LGBT community in Poland.
+Its organizers, including  Szymon Niemiec , stress that the parade is meant to highlight not only the LGBT movement, but the rights issues of all minorities.
+Though efforts toward an LGBT parade in Poland were made at least as early as 1998,
+Poland's first successful parade, in Warsaw, was organized in 2001 through the efforts of gay rights activist Szymon Niemiec.
+The second and third parades were held in 2002 and 2003.
+That year there were some 300 marchers.
+The 2002 parade was estimated to have at least 1500 attendees,
+and the 2003 event attracted about 3000.
+In 2004 and 2005 officials denied permission for the parades, citing the likelihood of counter-demonstrations, interference with religious or national holidays, lack of a permit, and other reasons.
+The parades were vocally opposed by conservative Law and Justice party's Lech Kaczyński  who said that allowing an official gay pride event in Warsaw would promote a homosexual lifestyle.
+In protest, a different event, Wiec Wolności , was organized in Warsaw in 2004,
+and was estimated to have drawn 600 to 1000 attendees.
+In response to the 2005 ban, about 2500 people marched on 11 June of that year, an act of civil disobedience that led to several brief arrests.
+The 2006 parade was held without official interference, and is estimated to have gathered about 20,000 attendees.
+In May 2007 the ban has been declared discriminatory and illegal by the European Court of Human Rights' Bączkowski v. Poland ruling.
+That month, the 2007 parade gathered about 4000 attendees.
+The 2008 march attracted "several thousands" again,
+and the 2009, "over 2000".
+In 2010 the event was not held, as Warsaw hosted the international EuroPride event, drawing about 8.000 crowd.
+This event was organized privately and required an entrance fee, which was the cause of controversy.
+The parades have been organized annually since, and attendance has grown substantially over the years, from about 4000 to 6000 attendees in 2011, 18,000 in 2015, to about 45,000 attendees in the 2018 parade. On 8 June 2019, around 50,000 marched in the event. Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski participated in the event twice as well as granted the festival city patronate. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic 2020’a edition of the parade was called off. It has rebooted on 19 June 2021 and again the mayor Rafał Trzaskowski participated in the event granting the parade city hall patronate. Although no accurate number of participants was officially announced selected media stated that there were “thousands” present at the event.
+A recurring demand of the parade is the recognition of same-sex unions in Poland.

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1	+ The EuroGames are an LGBT sporting event in Europe, hosted by license of the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation and organised by one or more of the federation's member clubs. Similar to the Gay Games, Eurogames are a sports-for-all-event, open to everyone, irrespective of sex, age, sexual identity or physical ability.
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3	+ The EuroGames is a two-day event.
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+EuroPride is a pan-European international event dedicated to LGBTI pride, hosted by a different European city each year. The host city is usually one with an established pride event or a significant LGBTI community.
+For up to a month, numerous sporting, artistic and human rights events are staged throughout the host city. EuroPride usually culminates during a weekend with a traditional Mardi Gras-style pride parade, live music, human rights conference, special club nights, and an AIDS memorial vigil.
+EuroPride was inaugurated in London in 1992, attended by estimated crowds of over 100,000. The following year, Berlin hosted the festivities.  When Amsterdam hosted EuroPride in 1994, it turned into a financial disaster, leaving debts of approximately 450,000 euros. In 1996, EuroPride moved to Copenhagen, where it enjoyed strong support from city leaders.  The organisers were successful on all fronts but not able to achieve a financial surplus.
+Paris hosted EuroPride in 1997.  The festival had numerous commercial sponsors and was widely hailed as a success.  During the parade, over 300,000 people marched to the Bastille.  Stockholm was the host city in 1998.  London was to host EuroPride again in 1999, but the event was canceled when the organisers went bankrupt.
+In 2000, WorldPride took place for the first time and, as has happened each time since, when WorldPride is in Europe, no separate EuroPride takes place.  The event took place in Rome and was well-attended by LGBTI people from all over the world.  After initially supporting the event, city leaders pulled their support just days before due to pressure exerted by the Vatican, which was organising its Great Jubilee.
+Vienna hosted the 2001 EuroPride, drawing large crowds from Central Europe.  In 2002, Köln , Germany, held the then-biggest ever EuroPride; officials estimated crowds to number well over one million.  EuroPride was hosted by Manchester in 2003, and Hamburg in 2004.  Oslo hosted it in 2005, with Ian McKellen as the guest of honour.
+London hosted the event in 2006, organising a two-week festival culminating in a parade on the final day  in which marchers were invited to walk down Oxford Street, one of the city's busiest shopping streets, the first time they had been legally allowed to do so. The parade was attended by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Conservative MP Alan Duncan, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, and the first transgender MEP, Italian Vladimir Luxuria.
+Following the parade, events were held in three of the capital's squares: a rally in Trafalgar Square addressed by Ian McKellen, and entertainment in Leicester and Soho Squares. EuroPride 2006 marked the first time that London's main pride rally and entertainment areas were staged within the city itself, rather than in open parks.
+In 2007, Madrid hosted EuroPride, which took place in Chueca, the capital's gay village, during the last week in June. Madrid was chosen because of the gay marriage and gender identity laws Spain had passed during the previous two years. More than 1.2 million people attended the final parade as it passed through the downtown streets of Alcalá, and Gran Vía, ending up at Plaza de España. For the first time, Madrid City Hall contributed financing to the MADO  organisation. In addition, a private event, the Infinitamentegay Party, took place in Casa de Campo Park.
+In 2008, the Stockholm Pride organization organised EuroPride for a second time, held from 25 June to 3 August in Stockholm, a decade after hosting EuroPride 1998.
+Zurich hosted EuroPride in 2009 with a month-long roster of events from 2 May to 7 June, culminating in a parade through downtown Zurich on 6 June.
+The 2010 event was held in Warsaw, Poland. Organisers prepared multifaceted events between July 9 to 18. The Parade took place on July 17. It marked the first time this pan-European LGBT celebration took place in a former communist country. The Warsaw EuroPride formulated, as its main theme, a demand for legalisation of
+same sex civil partnerships.
+In 2011, EuroPride returned to Rome. Hosted by Claudia Gerini, the parade closed with a performance and a speech by Lady Gaga at the Circus Maximus. That year one million people took part.
+The 2013 EuroPride was in Marseille, France from July 10–20, focusing on gay marriage in France and celebrated the biggest gay wedding in Europe
+The 2016 EuroPride returned to Amsterdam.  UK singer/songwriter Tara McDonald sang her single "I Need A Miracle" which was chosen as the EuroPride anthem and was remixed by Gregor Salto.
+There was no EuroPride in 2017 as WorldPride took place in Madrid.
+In June 2019, President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen became the first Head of State to address a EuroPride parade.
+The European Pride Organisers Association, which licences EuroPride and owns the trademark, has decided that a WorldPride event held in Europe also automatically carries the title of EuroPride.
+The first WorldPride was held in Rome in 2000 . The second WorldPride was held in Jerusalem in 2005–2006.
+London, also hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics, beat out competing candidate, Stockholm, in the fall of 2008 to hold WorldPride 2012, which was held from 23 June to 8 July.
+WorldPride 2017 was held in Madrid, and WorldPride 2021 was held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
+Madrid's EuroPride 2007 was the most well-attended event at the time, with an estimated 2.5 million visitors. This huge attendance was not only a success for Madrid, but for the whole LGBT Spanish community, due to the celebration of the change of terms in the laws related to gay marriage and adoptions.
+Madrid was one of the first Spanish cities celebrating the legalization of gay marriage, with the support of all political parties, even the conservatives in the Government, headed by the ex-mayor of the city, Alberto Ruíz Gallardón from Partido Popular.
+Due to these and other advances in same-sex freedom and social progress, Madrid was chosen in 2012 to host WorldPride 2017.
+The European Pride Organisers Association  owns the EuroPride trademark and licenses its use to one Pride organisation each year.
+Pride organisers from across Europe discussed the creation of a European network at conferences of InterPride and the International Lesbian & Gay Association  in the early 1990s, and the first formal meeting of EPOA was convened in Copenhagen in 1995.
+EPOA is a small organisation with eight elected board members, all of whom serve with Pride organisations in Europe. It has no paid staff, and has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The board meets several times each year, often holding a meeting in a city holding its Pride event that weekend.
+Any Pride organisation can become a member of EPOA upon payment of a membership fee. This gives the organisation voting rights at the Annual General Meeting, including on votes on future EuroPride bids. Membership to EPOA automatically makes a Pride a member of InterPride, its international equivalent. EPOA has more than 130 members across Europe.
+The current President of EPOA is Latvian human rights activist, Kristine Garina.

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+The European Lesbian* Conference  is an international lesbian-focused seminar and one of the largest to take place. The first event was held in October 2017 at the Brotfabrik in Vienna, Austria.
+The first international lesbian conference was organized by the International Lesbian Information Service  within ILGA in 1980 in Barcelona. In 1998 ILIS stopped its activity altogether, issuing a final newsletter. Sheley Anderson wrote a 58-page report named "Lesbian rights are human rights" to stress one of the main focuses of ILIS.
+In 2016 during the annual ILGA European Conference in Cyprus, 70 European lesbians activists organized and participated in a workshop. The workshop participants concluded there was an urgent need to empower and increase the visibility of lesbian issues, to develop networks and to work on lesbian needs and oppressions.
+Consequently, in 2017 the first European lesbian conference was organized independently from ILGA. Silvia Casalino, Anastasia Danilova, Mariella Müller, Alice Coffin, Olena Shevchenko and Maria von Känel were among the co-founders. On 2 February 2017, Ewa Dziedzic, Mariella Muller and Michaela Tulipan officially registered the NGO located in Vienna and chaired by Silvia Casalino and Mariella Müller.
+Karima Zahi represented the EL*C during the Lesbian Visibility Day at the European Parliament on 26 April 2018. On this occasion they spoke about lesbophobia in European countries, lesbian activism in the Balkans and Turkey, visibility of lesbians in education and the problems encountered by lesbian asylum seekers. Kika Fumero and Martha Fernándes Herráiz from Spain were also representants from the NGO Lesworking.
+Over 400 women from 44 European, Latin America and central Asian countries were invited to the conference according to Maria von Känel. Although Belgrade was considered as a possible location of the conference at first, Vienna was chosen for logistic reasons and the fact that there is an active and visible lesbian community in Vienna.
+The main goal of the conference was to make lesbians visible, combat lesbophobia and to promote solidarity networks. Alice Coffin stressed the fact that when a cause is not visible, it does not exist. For lesbians, this is demonstrated by an analysis of the budget allotted to lesbian issues. According to Coffin, out of 424 million dollars allocated to LGBT projects, only 2% are distributed for lesbians. Furthermore, participating to ILGA conferences remains something expensive. The EL*C has enabled 100 persons to participate free of cost and has kept a very low registration fee, to insure the diversity among the participants and to respond to this criticism addressed to ILGA since the 1980s.
+The first opening statement was made by Ulrike Lunacek, then candidate of the Austrian Green Party to the legislative elections in Vienna. In her opening speech, the Austrian green politician, who is also an outed lesbian, stressed that if the work on visibility was crucial, some progress also has to be made legally to ensure equal rights for lesbians. Other following opening statements were made by Faika El-Nagashi, Ewa Dziedzic and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah and Linda Riley, the publisher of Diva magazine, who gave a keynote introduction to the conference.
+Two African women, among whom Chukwuike Obioma were not able to make to the  conference because they were denied a visa for Austria.
+The European Lesbian* Conference was held from 5 October to 8 October 2017. A demonstration was held in the streets of Vienna on 7 October, the day before the closing of the conference. The general motto of the first EL*C gathering was "CONNECT, REFLECT, ACT, TRANSFORM".
+Main themes were announced by Alice Coffin among others in September 2017:
+Elizabeth Holzleithner, professor of legal philosophy and gender studies gave an opening conference on legal aspects entitled "Legally lesbian". She talked about the legal history of the criminalisation of same sex sexual acts between women.
+A special place was given to talks concerning the history of the lesbian movement in Europe. Evien Tjabbes evoked the emergence of ILIS in the 1980s, as a wish to start evoking lesbian issues separately from ILGA, because it was felt that problems lesbians faced were different although there are overlaps with LGBTIQ issues.
+Alice Coffin, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah and Linda Riley talked about the place that lesbians are given in media.
+In 2018, a press release announced that the 2019 EL*C conference would take place in Kiev, Ukraine, from 12 to 14 April.
+Mariella Müller and Silvia Casalino were elected chairs at the founding of the EL*C in 2017. Other 2017 board members included Biljana Ginova , Maria von Känel , Luise Luksch  and Leila Lohman, Michaela Tulipan, Ewa Dziedzic, Olena Shevchenko, Aurora Baba, Alice Coffin, Ilaria Todde, Anastasia Danilova, Pia Stevenson. Dragana Todoriv joined the board after the conference in Vienna.
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+Folsom Europe, also known as Folsom Straßenfest , is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held in September in Berlin, Germany since 2003.
+Folsom Europe was established in 2003, in order to bring to Europe the non-profit leather festival concept pioneered by the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, California.
+Today this is one of the biggest gay fetish event in Europe together with the Berlin Leder und Fetisch e.V.  hosted Easter in Berlin which is held every Easter holiday. The main area for the two fetish festivals is in Schöneberg. The Folsom Europe street festival is at Fuggerstrasse and Welserstrasse, close to Wittenbergplatz.
+Folsom Europe is also the backdrop for the annual German Titleholders' Conference, an event which brings together fetish titleholders from all over the world to meet and collect money for charitable organisations in Berlin. Fundraising is an important part of this fetish street party, as it is the only event in Europe where the nuns from the Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence stand at the gates to collect funds from visitors.
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+GFEST - Gaywise FESTival  is the premier LGBT annual cross-arts festival in London, UK —a platform for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer artists, organizations and venues to promote LGBT and queer arts.
+Organized by the arts charity Wise Thoughts, GFEST features queer artists and talented individuals specializing in various forms of art, including visual art, theatre, dance and performance, and short films. The festival also hosts debates, workshops, and parties.
+In 2010, over 100 artists and 8,000 individuals took part in GFEST 10. The launches of GFEST 08, 09 and 10 took place at the Palace of Westminster; LGBT 08 was the first LGBT arts initiative launched at the House of Commons.
+GFEST 2011 was held from 7 to 20 November 2011, the fifth year in which the festival was hosted.
+The festival's artistic director was CEO and Artistic Director of Wise Thoughts, Niranjan Kamatkar.
+The events of the 13th year of GFEST - Gaywise FESTival 2020 were presented online for the first time in precautionary response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 9 and 21 November 2020, daily publishing of over a dozen filmed stories and recordings of live webinars with BAME and LGBTQI+ people from across the UK were presented online.
+Niranjan Kamatkar

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+Gay Days at Walt Disney World is a loosely organized event where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender  individuals, their families, friends and supporters go to Walt Disney World on a single day each year. It is held on the first Saturday in June .
+The first documented event, in June 1991, had 3,000 LGBTQ+ people from central Florida going to area theme parks on one day wearing red shirts to make their presence more visible. By 1995, the event had grown to 10,000 gays and lesbians traveling for the gay day at Disney. As of 2010 approximately 150,000 LGBT people, their families, friends and supporters attended the six-day gathering  with 20,000 to 30,000 going to Disney on the final day.
+The popularity of the event is seen by some attendees as a way of "reclaiming" normal joys of childhood lost to homophobia in their earlier years. Growth in attendance also reflects the growing number of LGBT families with children as well as increasing number of LGBT marriages, since Disney World is also a top honeymoon destination.
+A local Doubletree resort has dubbed itself the "official" hotel for the event, with convention space rented to various businesses  and organizations  pitching to attendees.
+Gay Days have attracted criticism from religious groups. While Disney does not sanction Gay Days , conservative Christian groups accuse Disney of not doing anything to stop the event. The Southern Baptist Convention boycotted Disney for eight years. The Florida Family Association flew banner planes one year warning families of gay events at Disney that weekend, citing emails from people nationwide who unknowingly booked their vacation during Gay Days. Janet Porter, president of the Christian organization "Faith 2 Action", is highly critical of the event. She encouraged families to re-think visiting Walt Disney World. She told families to expect to see "cross-dressing men parading public displays of perversion" during their visit.

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+Gay Film Nights  film festival organised annually in Cluj-Napoca, Romania by the LGBT association Be An Angel. By presenting a series of films with LGBT themes, it seeks to showcase LGBT culture and cinema, while also initiating a dialogue with other members of society. The complete title of the event is Festivalul de Film "Serile Filmului Gay" . The festival was first organised in 2004. Entry to the films is free.
+The films shown at the Gay Film Nights are somewhat different from those shown as part of Bucharest's annual GayFest, which also includes a film festival. Gay Film Nights tends to be more mainstream and focussed on English-language films in its selection, while GayFest usually presents a greater number of documentaries and European productions, with a greater focus on LGBT rights.
+Apart from the screening of films, Be An Angel also organises a number of other events during the Gay Film Nights festival. One of these is the Miss Travesty Romania contest which is open to drag and cross-dressing participants, intended to celebrate transsexual and transgender culture, and Mister Gay Romania.
+Additionally, the Gay Film Nights includes a Gay Prize Gala, which seeks to recognise those who have contributed to LGBT culture and rights throughout the year, with prizes awarded in several categories.
+Held 14 – 20 November 2016, Cluj-Napoca.
+Held 10 – 16 November 2014, Cluj-Napoca.
+Held 19 – 25 October 2009, Cluj-Napoca.
+GAY FILM NIGHTS International Film Festival 2009
+AWARDS
+Best Short Film: Todas!!!
+Best Documentary: Transvestites also cry by Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva
+Best Feature Film: I Can’t Think Straight
+Public's Choice: My name is Love
+Gay Film Nights 2008 took place between 13 and 19 October 2008, under the tagline of "The same people. The same ideals. Just in appearance different". It was the fifth edition of the festival.
+Films:
+Short Films
+A Domicilio, Area X, Below the Belt, Benny's Gym, Fabulosity, FAIR Enough, Flores en el Parque, Just, Kaden, King County, Kompisar, Laundromat, Le Baiser, Mechanic's Daydream, Mother's Day, Postmortem, Premieren, Radu + Ana, Scarred, Signage, Secrets of the Mystic Oracle, The Offering, Thick Lips Thin Lips, Twirling Earl, Una última voluntad, Uncle Mike, Was is schon normal?
+Feature Films
+Butch Jamie, Coffee Date, East Side Story, Finn's Girl, Pusinky, The Gymnast
+Documentaries
+Campillo,  Here's Looking at You, Boy, Red Without Blue, The Two Cubas, Voodoo Woman
+Gay Film Nights 2007 took place between 15 and 21 October 2007, under the tagline of "Respect me the way I am!". The festival commemorated the fifth anniversary since the founding of Be An Angel, the festival's organiser. For the first time, the festival included photography exhibitions, a theatre performance and a Home Made Movies Contest, where amateur filmmakers were invited to create an LGBT-themed short film, of no more than 20 minutes, with a message of anti-discrimination or tolerance. The event was organised as part of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All and was sponsored by KulturForum Europa.
+Films shown in the 2007 Gay Film Nights were:
+The Gay Prize Gala 2007 took place on September 29 at 22:00 at Club Angels, with the following recipients in the following categories:
+The "black ball" was once again awarded to Gigi Becali, for his repeated anti-gay remarks.
+Gay Film Nights 2006 was held between 25 and 30 September, and was the first festival to include short films . A different full-length film was shown each day at 19:00 at Club Angels, with five films shown in total :
+Additionally, at 22:00 every night, a different LGBT party was held as part of the festival, including a karaoke night, a live music party and the Miss Travesty event on September 30.
+The Gay Prize Gala 2006 took place on September 29 at 22:00 at Club Angels, with the following recipients in the following categories:
+The Gay Prize Gala also awarded a "black ball" to the politician Gigi Becali, for his anti-gay remarks and his virulent opposition to Bucharest's GayFest pride parade in June 2006.
+Film festivals in Cluj: