Nowadays you can expect events throughout the entire month of June culminating in a massive pride parade. It was also the host to WorldPride in 2014. This is the biggest pride event in Canada and at its peak brought in over 1.2 million people in 2012. Toronto’s Pride Week was born out of the mass protests that followed the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids, and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005. With 1.4 million people in attendance in 2002 for Europride and typical years bringing in 1.2 million visitors this is one of the many German Prides you do not want to miss! Toronto Pride Likewise, ColognePride is an expression of self-confidence and zest for life’. They state that ‘ Unconditional social acceptance is and remains our stated aim. Cologne Pride (Christopher Street Day)Ĭologne Pride is one of the largest Pride celebrations in Germany and quite rightly one the of Top Gay Travel Destination in Germany! With over 200 parade floats and more than twenty stages and venues, the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade is one of the largest gathering of the LGBTQ community and allies in the US. San Francisco PrideĬoming in at 1.8 million attending during the Pride Parade in 2015, San Francisco’s march in 1970 has also grown exponentially over the years. We have lot of content on Madrid including ‘ Everything you Need to know about Madrid Pride’ and ‘ The Best Gay Bars in Madrid’. In 2017 Madrid hosted WorldPride and hit a staggering attendance of 3.5 million people – bearing in mind that the population of Madrid is 3.2 million this is insane! It therefore comes as no surprise that Madrid is home to one of the biggest pride parades in the world and one that we got to be part of! We love Madrid and lived there for 7 months in 2018 – it was the most open, welcoming and LGBTQ inclusive city we have ever been to.
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We almost went in 2018 but missed it by the skin of our teeth, however we also highly recommend checking out Gay Rio De Janeiro whilst you are in Brazil. When it comes to events in Sao Paulo, its gay pride parade is the biggest event for the city after Formula one. In 2017, the parade itself had 5 million people involved! The first pride parade in Sao Paulo was in 1997 and by 2006 it was breaking Guinness World Records holding the biggest pride parade in the world at 2.5 million people (at that point in time). In joint number one is another parade attracting millions of LGBTQ people from around the world is Sao Paulo Pride, Brazil. New York has so much to offer, it is after all, the city that never sleeps and we love it!įor more about New York head over to our Complete Gay Travel Guide to New York. In 2019 New York hosted WorldPride bringing in an attendance of over 5 million people making it the largest pride celebration ever recorded! Given this is one of the first places in the world to have a pride march it is incredible to see how much this has grown! New York PrideĬoming in at joint number one for the biggest pride parade in the world (unsurprisingly) is New York Pride. Imagine being surrounded by millions of your fellow LGBTQ community celebrating everything that Pride has to offer.Ĭheck out the biggest pride parades in the world below ranked by reported peak attendance over the years. It’s a unique experience to attend one of the biggest pride parades in the world where, for a change, you can feel like part of the majority and not the minority. Since then, Pride parades have grown all over the world to epic proportions with attendance in the millions!
The following day on 28 th June New York gay activist groups held their own pride parade, known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day, to recall the events of Stonewall one year earlier. The first Pride parades (or march/protests) were held in the US in 1970.īoth Chicago and San Francisco organised a march on 27 th June 1970. Take a look at our list of the biggest pride parades in the world and add them to your bucketlist! When was the first LGBTQ Pride Parade? It also feels amazing to cheer the floats along or depending where in the world you are, getting right into all the action and dancing along the street in the parade itself! Pride is so much more than glitter and rainbows.įor us, Pride means having the freedom to openly be ourselves, celebrate all the progress that has been made and call into action everything that still needs to be done! Pride can mean validation, feeling free, celebrating survival, being accepted and respected, having a community and honouring those that have paved the way. No matter the size, Pride is an incredibly important event with huge positive impacts. We have attended many Prides over the years including some of the biggest Pride parades in the world!