30 Facts About Pride festival

The Joburg Pride festival organising body disbanded in 2013 due to internal conflict about whether the event should continue to be used for political advocacy.

Pride festival parades have been held in smaller Indian cities such as Nagpur, Madurai, Bhubaneshwar and Thrissur.

Three Pride festival parades took place in Tel Aviv on the week of June 11, 2010.

In May 2011, Tokyo Pride festival was dissolved and most of the original management went on to found Tokyo Rainbow Pride festival.

On November 1, 2003 the first Taiwan Pride festival was held in Taipei with over 1, 000 people attending.

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Viet Pride festival has since expanded, now taking place in 17 cities and provinces in Vietnam in the first weekend of August, attracting around 700 bikers in 2014 in Hanoi, and was reported on many mainstream media channels.

Copenhagen Pride festival is a colourful and festive occasion, combining political issues with concerts, films and a parade.

Later, a system of "national Pride festival" observances designated one city to hold the official events, starting with Rome in 1994.

In 2007, following international pressure, a Pride festival Parade was held in Riga with 4, 500 people parading around Vermane Garden, protected physically from "No Pride festival" protesters by 1, 500 Latvian police, with ringing the inside and the outside of the iron railings of the park.

In 2009, the annual Baltic Pride festival was launched, with the first edition being held in Riga with a march.

Baltic Pride festival event returned to Riga in 2018, the year of the centenary of the independence of Latvia and all three Baltic states.

Utrecht Canal Pride festival is the second largest gay pride in the country, organised annually since 2017.

Smaller Pride festival parades are organised in many larger cities across the country.

In 2010 EuroPride festival took place in Warsaw with approximately 8, 000 participants.

In Lisbon, the Pride festival Parade, known as Marcha do Orgulho LGBTI+, has been held every year since 2000, as well as in Porto since 2006.

Belgrade Pride festival parade was held on October 10, 2010 with about 1000 participants and while the parade itself went smoothly, a riot broke out in which 5600 police clashed with six thousand anti-gay protesters at Serbia's second ever Gay Pride festival march attempt, with nearly 147 policemen and around 20 civilians reported wounded in the violence.

In 2016, for the first time alternative pride parade called Pride festival Serbia was held on 25 June, and the Belgrade Pride festival was held on 18 September.

In 2018, Belgrade Pride was attended by thousands of people and it became one of the biggest Pride Parade festival in the region.

Madrid Pride festival Parade, known as Fiesta del Orgullo Gay, Manifestacion Estatal del Orgullo LGTB and Dia del Orgullo Gay (or simply Dia del Orgullo), is held the first Saturday after June 28 since 1979.

Madrid Pride festival Parade is the biggest gay demonstration in Europe, with more than 1.

In 2014, Winter Pride festival Maspalomas was held for the first time at Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, one of one Europe's most popular LGTB tourist destinations.

The Stockholm Pride festival is notable for several officials such as the Swedish Police Authority and Swedish Armed Forces having their own entities in the parade.

Manchester Pride festival has been running since 1985 and centres around the famous Canal Street.

Pride festival events happen in most other major cities such as Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield.

Montreal's LGBTQ+ Pride festival Parade is held in mid-August and has taken place every year since 1979, when a group of 200 people commemorated New York City's 1969 Stonewall Riots with "Gairilla", a precursor to Montreal's gay pride parade celebrations.

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Brisbane's Pride festival March began in July 1990, and is organised by Brisbane Pride festival.

Perth's Pride festival March was established in October 1990, by the newly formed WA Pride festival Collective.

Adelaide's Pride festival March was established in 2003, on the anniversary of their first Pride festival March in 1973.

Sao Paulo Gay Pride festival Parade happens in Paulista Avenue, in the city of Sao Paulo, since 1997.

Pride festival Parade is heavily supported by the federal government as well as by the Governor of Sao Paulo, the event counts with a solid security plan, many politicians show up to open the main event and the government not rarely parades with a float with politicians on top of it.