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The festival was first held on Father's Day in 1975. [2] Deacon Maccubbin, owner of the LGBT bookstore Lambda Rising, organized the city's first annual gay pride event.It was a one-day community block party held on 20th Street NW between R and S Streets NW in Washington, D.C. (the same block where Lambda Rising was then located).
By 1993, Capital City Pride was founded with the sole purpose of hosting the annual Pride events. Over time the march's more political tone shifted a more celebratory one. [5] 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.
The São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in Brazil is South America's largest event, and was listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest Pride parade in 2006 with 2.5 million people. [10] It broke the Guinness record in 2009 with four million attendees, [ 11 ] with similar numbers to at least 2016, [ 12 ] and up to five million attending in ...
Ashdod Pride Parade Ashdod: 2013 Be'er Sheva Parade Beersheba: 2009 Eilat Pride Parade Eilat: 2001 Hadera Pride Parade Hadera: 2012 Haifa Pride Parade Haifa: 2003 Jerusalem Pride Parade: Jerusalem: 2002 Petah Tikva Pride Parade Petah Tikva: 2012 Rishon LeZion Parade. Rishon Lezion: 2010 Tel Aviv Pride Parade: Tel Aviv: telaviv-pride.com: June 1993
Ottawa Capital Pride is an annual LGBTQ pride event, festival, and parade held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Gatineau, Quebec, from mid to late August.Established in 1986, it has evolved into a 7 to 9-day celebration of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in the National Capital Region.
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Seeing Kamala Harris take part in DC Pride ‘was an acknowledgement of how far the community has come,’ former Capital Pride Alliance president tells Gustaf Kilander
A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride. The events sometimes also serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage.