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Pune has had a pride march since December 11, 2011, when Samapathik Trust led around 100 people through the old city, the second pride march in Maharashtra after Mumbai's. The story since then is messy and worth knowing: the organizing team split in 2020 over the Citizenship Amendment Act protests, the pandemic stopped the march in 2021, and since 2023 the city has had two separate June marches.
One is run by Yutak LGBTQ Trust, which billed its June 13, 2026 walk as the 14th official Pune Pride Walk, starting at Mandai Metro Station in Shukrawar Peth and moving through the old-city center. The other is run by MIST Foundation, whose June 1, 2025 march left Chhatrapati Sambhaji Garden and went along JM Road and FC Road behind a dhol troupe, after the group lost USAID funding and turned to crowdfunding.
Both are daytime walks of a few hundred people, not party parades. In 2023 Yutak banned political slogans and banners, and earlier Pune organizers drew criticism for dress and conduct rules, so read each group's guidelines before you go. Same-sex relations have been legal in India since 2018; marriage is not.
We couldn't confirm whether MIST held a 2026 march, and neither group had announced 2027 dates when we checked.
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