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Pride in Pictures: Johannesburg’s Pride parade is the biggest in Africa & there’s a...
Johannesburg, capital city of South Africa, has been hosting Pride parades since 1990. The organization behind it, the Gay and Lesbian Organization of the Witwatersrand (GLOW), was founded in 1988 and has continuously advocated for progressive change since.
The parade in Johannesburg was the first to take place on the African continent. 800 people attended.
“I’m fighting for the abolition of apartheid,” said Simon Nkoli, anti-apartheid activist and founder of GLOW. “And I fight for the right of freedom of sexual orientation....
