Tag: Gay Pride

The biggest pride in Asia just took place this weekend at Taipei Pride. The 15-year-old event hosted more than 118,000 people as Taiwan’s capital celebrated gay pride and also the legalization of gay marriage in the country earlier this year. Check out a few photos of the festivities down below. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0MUpoHNbX/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba1fcpkBkL4/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0JN_RHVl9/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bazy7AoHB8C/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba1u2mWB5w2/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0OLcNAecM/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BaylOurHRmt/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0AnwYgi3a/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba1ay90FTK8/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0JkDwnRCs/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bayax6fA7h9/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BaygdTMnAFB/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0_7-cAyIQ/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0WbFVFX2L/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba0A2r0AUf4/

200 people gathered to participate in Soweto Pride in South Africa. The Pride parade marched through sections like Meadowlands and Dobsonville in Soweto before eventually settling at Dorothy Nyembe Park, a subsection of Johannesburg in the country of South Africa, to protest the increasing hate crimes against LGBTQ people. Going along with that goal, the theme of this year’s march was “Reclaiming Our Right To Organize.” The reason for that theme was not only because of the increase in crimes targeting gay...

Education = Equality The streets of Manchester were flooded with a sea of rainbow-clad people celebrating unity over the weekend for the city’s 2017 Pride parade. This year’s event was themed “Class of 2017,” with the graduation-inspired party designed to place emphasis on the fact that education is the best way to create lasting acceptance, unity and change. https://www.instagram.com/p/BYTahC6F7fb/ After the terrorist attack at Ariana Grande’s Manchester Arena concert earlier this year, the city felt it was more important than ever to join...

If love is the universal language of love, and Pride is the universal language of fabulous, then what we have here is one seriously fabulous display of love. We’ll keep it brief and direct you to the blow video shared by Ubicate Chile on Facebook. It’s a Pride wedding proposal for the ages, and our hearts are all a-flutter (you may need to click the speaker icon to turn on sound): Source

If you’re only going to one pride this year then you should pick Madrid Pride. This year Madrid will host the famous World Pride. 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the first LGBTI pride parade in Spain. Now 40 years later, Spain continues to be a leader for LGBTI equality and rights. Madrid Pride is one of the largest prides in the world with nearly 2,000,000 participants and a demonstration with about 1,000,000 attendees. The World Pride celebration in Madrid will...

Earlier this month, we reported that the LA Pride parade has been officially cancelled to make way for a march protesting Donald Trump. Now we’ve learned NYC Pride will also be shaking up its routine to include resistance groups at the very front of the parade. “I’m extremely proud of the people who came out to raise their voices about this,” says Ken Kidd, the lead organizer who fought tirelessly to get the resistance groups into a highly visible position in...

On the heels of last weekend’s Women’s March on Washington, a gay activist in New York City has set in motion plans for a National Pride March on Washington on June 11, which he hopes will draw hundreds of thousands of people. David Bruinooge, 42, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident, said he was inspired to create a Facebook event page announcing the march on Jan. 21 while he was watching the Women’s March on Washington at home. “I was watching the events...

Organisers are promising "the most spectacular Pride event of 2017." Brighton Pride have revealed the first details of this year’s Pride celebrations – and it looks like 2017 will be another year to remember for one of the UK’s biggest and boldest celebrations equality. After the success of last year’s Pride Parade, which drew and estimate crowd of 200,000 spectators, organisers have promised a ‘Summer of Love’ in 2017 to mark the landmark 5oth anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in...

Religion was once described as a “the cluster of imperatives and beliefs which orient a life in motion,” so in the case of one Indiana church, that cluster of imperatives is that it is vitally important that anyone who ever went to gay pride should be prevented from singing. The situation is this: the Hakes family has belonged to the St. Mary’s of the Assumption Catholic (of course) Church in Indiana for many generations. When an elderly member of the family died, one of the...

Hundreds of LGBT activists marched in the Pride parade in New Delhi today to draw attention to discrimination against India’s LGBT community. Marchers called for a repeal of the law that criminalises homosexual acts. The penal code which criminalises acts was overturned in 2009, but four years later the move was overturned who decided repealing the section which dictates the law should be up to parliament, not judiciary. https://www.instagram.com/p/BNT6O8bDMa9/ Gay sex is punishable by up to 10 years in prison in India. Many in...

Tens of thousands of LGBT+ people and their allies took to the streets of Taiwan’s capital Taipei this weekend to celebrate the city’s annual Pride. Many who marched this week carried placards calling for the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Attendees marched past the presidential palace and at 2.30pm, two giant rainbow banners were unfurled and a brass band started playing. Taiwan is considered one of the most liberal of the Asian countries in terms of human rights, and it’s widely believed they...

A right-wing columnist has claimed that God sent a hurricane to ravage America because of gay people. Hurricane Matthew has left a path of destruction across the Caribbean, killing nine people and displacing thousands from their homes in Haiti. It is heading towards the coast of Florida, sparking warnings of damage. But one columnist for Trump-backing website Shoebat has claimed that the storm was sent by God to disrupt this weekend’s Orlando Pride celebrations. Andrew Bieszad wrote: “Florida is a nice place, but it...

Ugandan police have blocked gay pride celebrations from happening in two resorts outside the capital, Kampala. Gay rights activist Frank Mugisha said more than 100 LGBTI people tried to participate in the celebrations in Entebbe near Lake Victoria. But many were escorted by police back to Kampala in minibuses. The minister for ethics and integrity had threatened to mobilise mobs to attack participants. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. After being blocked from entering the Entebbe resort, several dozen participants moved on to another...

This post is an announcement about the upcoming Gay Pride parade in the city of Valencia (Spain). Since quite a few years ago, we are having these yearly parades all over Spain and this is a very good news. We all love when these events are made and furthermore they are loved not only among the gay community but also most of the citizens of Valencia. It is remarkable to say that Spain is one of the most gay friendly...