About This Event
Catania held its first Pride in 2000, and the march still has a sharp local voice. Since 2023 the committee, which includes Arcigay Catania, Arci and the CGIL union, has built its slogans around 'puppo', a Catanese slang word thrown at gay men as an insult and now reclaimed. The slogans were 'Polpo di Stato' in 2023, 'Polpo mondo' in 2025 and 'W la RePuppica antifascista' in 2026.
The programme opens with a three-day Pride Village of talks, workshops, concerts and a market in the CGIL spaces on via Crociferi. The Saturday corteo follows: people gather at 17:00 in piazza Cavour, march down via Etnea and end with speeches from a stage in piazza Università. Everything is free.
Late June in Catania is hot, so plan on arriving close to the 17:00 start and bring water.
The 2026 edition ran from 24 to 27 June, with the march on Saturday 27 June. Organisers reported homophobic insults against some marchers and an attempted assault on one participant, which other people in the crowd stopped. We couldn't find a reliable headcount for 2026. Local press described thousands of marchers in 2025. The 2027 date hadn't been announced when we checked.
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