Pride parades, festivals and mega events around the globe
Las Vegas Pride is run by the Southern Nevada Association of PRIDE, which counted 43 years of service in 2026. Unlike most US…
Iris is Cardiff's LGBTQ+ film festival, built around the Iris Prize for short film. The prize is £40,000, which the organisers…
Women's Week is Provincetown's big lesbian and queer women's festival, held every October once the summer crowds have left. It…
This is Germany's oldest queer film festival and, by its own count, the largest, with about 15,500 visitors a year. It began with…
Vienna Drag Festival is six days of drag shows, parties, talks and workshops produced by Club Atlas, a Viennese association that…
NewFest is New York's main LGBTQ+ film festival. It is run by the nonprofit of the same name, which dates back to 1988. The main…
Central Arkansas PRIDEFest & Parade is Little Rock's Pride. It is run by Central Arkansas Pride, a volunteer-led 501(c)(3)…
Fantasy Fest is Key West's ten-day costume and street party at the end of October. It is not a Pride. Four local merchants…
ExisTransInter is Paris's yearly march for trans and intersex rights. It started in 1997 as Existrans. In 2019 it was renamed to…
Charleston Pride is South Carolina's Lowcountry pride, and the 2026 edition takes place this Saturday, 17 October 2026. It…
Honolulu Pride is Hawaii's biggest queer street event, and unlike most US Prides it takes place in October rather than June. It…
Come Out With Pride is Orlando's Pride, and it's timed to National Coming Out Day in October, which keeps it clear of the worst…
Tulsa Pride is run by Oklahomans for Equality, the nonprofit behind the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center downtown. The key thing…
Kyushu Rainbow Pride is the main LGBTQ+ pride event for Japan's southern island, held in central Fukuoka. It is run by a…
Haus of Circuit is a Hong Kong gay party promoter, not a single annual festival. It runs circuit-style nights at Casa Dao, a…
Fantasia Fair, now called TransWeek, is a week-long gathering in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for transgender and gender-diverse…
The Block Party is CAMP Rehoboth's annual street fair, held on the second block of Baltimore Avenue right outside the LGBTQ…
Melt is Brisbane Powerhouse's festival of queer arts and culture. It started inside the Powerhouse at New Farm in the mid-2010s…
TLVFest is Tel Aviv's international LGBTQ+ film festival, founded in 2006 by Yair Hochner and based at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque…
No festival called BAFICI Queer exists. BAFICI is Buenos Aires' large general festival of independent film. The city's own…
Savannah Pride is the main Pride festival on the Georgia coast, and 2026 is its 27th year. It is run by Savannah Pride Center, a…
Profile Dublin is a gay club-night promoter, not a multi-day circuit festival. It's a small operation (about 3,800 Instagram…
Pink Screens, Brussels' queer film festival, is marking its 25th edition in 2026. It's run by Genres d'à côté, a volunteer…
Key West Bear Weekend is a five-day bear gathering at the end of October, timed to land on Halloween and to follow straight after…
The SKINS & Punks Weekend is a four-day meet-up for gay skinheads and punks in Schöneberg. It is run by the group Skins & Punks…
La Démence is a gay party brand rather than a single event. It started in 1989 as a Sunday party in smaller Belgian towns, moved…
MIX Copenhagen, Denmark's queer film festival, has been around since 1986. It started out as the Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film…
Halloween New Orleans, known to regulars as HNO, is a gay costume weekend that also raises money for Project Lazarus, a New…
West Hollywood's Halloween Carnaval started in 1987 and grew into one of the biggest Halloween street parties in the US, famous…
This is a Big Gay Cruise group sailing on Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas. It is five nights round trip from Galveston…
Johannesburg Pride was the first Pride march on the African continent. On 13 October 1990, several hundred people (about 800 by…
Taiwan Pride is the biggest LGBTQ+ march in East Asia, and the one the rest of the region watches. The first parade, on 1…
Feast is Adelaide's queer arts and culture festival. It runs for about three weeks every November and has been going since the…
Winter Pride Maspalomas is the November counterpart to Maspalomas Pride in May. It's a week of free shows, parties, and a big…
Mezipatra, the Czech Republic's queer film festival, takes over Prague and Brno in November. It started in Brno in 2000 as Duha…
Palm Springs Pride is held in November, not June, because the Coachella Valley is too hot for outdoor events in summer and the…
This is an Atlantis Events full-ship charter for gay men, sailing the Mexican Riviera from San Diego. Atlantis books the whole…
Adelaide's Pride March is a Saturday evening walk through the East End in early November, run by the volunteer group Adelaide…
The Marcha del Orgullo in Buenos Aires is the largest Pride in Argentina and one of the most political in Latin America. The…
PrideFEST is Perth's main LGBTQ+ festival, run every November by the community organisation Pride WA. It is a few weeks of events…
Outburst is Belfast's queer arts festival. The arts organisation Outburst Arts has run it every November since 2007, which makes…
The Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival is a volunteer-run festival under Indy Pride, the nonprofit behind the city's Pride festival…
MQFF began in February 1991 as part of Midsumma, became its own incorporated festival in 1992 and moved to March, and now runs in…
Chéries-Chéris is Paris's main LGBTQIA+ film festival, running since 1994. It spends eleven days each November in three MK2…
This is a Big Gay Cruise group on Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady, sailing five nights round trip from Miami from 14 to 19 November…
The Hong Kong Pride Parade last marched in 2018, with up to 12,000 people walking from Causeway Bay or Victoria Park to Central…
The big bear weekend in Cologne is BearPride Cologne, run by Bartmänner Köln e.V., which also trades as Bears of Cologne and…
The Florence Queer Festival is the city's LGBTQ+ film festival. It is organised by IREOS, a volunteer association that has worked…
Nice So Fetiche is a fetish weekend run by Evidence, a Nice association that organises gay fetish events. The gear covers…
Endimaris Sitges is an LGBTQ+ film festival held each autumn at Cinema Prado in the centre of Sitges. It started in 2021 and is…
image+nation is Montreal's LGBTQ+ film festival and the first festival of its kind in Canada. It was founded in 1987, when…
The Bangkok Fetish Ball is a one-night gear party, not a fetish week. Listings say it is put on by Thai fetish brands, though we…
Córdoba's Marcha del Orgullo, held since 2009, is a march first: political slogans, demands on the state, and a stage at the end…
Atlantis Events spends Thanksgiving week at sea with a gay men's charter from Miami on Virgin Voyages' Resilient Lady. Virgin…
Rio's Parada do Orgulho LGBTI+ is a beach Pride like no other: trucks and crowds line Avenida Atlântica, with Copacabana's sand…
Christmas Avenue is Berlin's LGBTQIA+ Christmas market, set up under the elevated U-Bahn tracks at Nollendorfplatz in Schöneberg…
AMOR is Chile's international LGBT+ film festival. It is independent and competitive, has run since 2016, and calls itself the…
Let's be clear about what this is: Strasbourg's Christmas market is a mainstream holiday event, not a queer one. We list it…
The Barcelona Queer Film Festival is a small, young festival. It is not the same as FIRE!!, Barcelona's long-running LGBTQ+ film…
Mad.Bear is Madrid's winter bear week, timed to the early-December holiday bridge around Spain's Constitution Day (December 6)…
The International Queer & Migrant Film Festival (IQMF) is an Amsterdam festival about where queer lives and migration meet…
Holly Folly is Provincetown's gay holiday festival. The Provincetown Business Guild, the LGBTQ business association that also…
Sydney has no single citywide gay New Year's Eve event. This page covers queer NYE in the city, and the most established party we…
The Sin City Classic is a five-day LGBTQ+ sports festival held in Las Vegas every January over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend…
Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, known to everyone as MAL, is the big American leather gathering of the winter. Centaur M.C., a…
Italy Gay Ski Week is a small hosted group trip, not a festival. It is run by the tour operator Italy Gay Travels in Cortina…
Arosa Gay Ski Week is a week of LGBTQ+ skiing and parties in Arosa, a resort village at the end of a mountain road above Chur in…
Aspen Gay Ski Week has run every January since 1977, and its organizers and the ski press call it the longest-running gay ski…
Midsumma is Melbourne's queer arts and culture festival, running since 1988 across three weeks of the southern summer in…
Fringe World is Perth's month-long open-access arts festival, run by Artrage every summer since a pilot in 2011. It isn't an…
The Wiener Regenbogenball, Vienna's queer ball, has been a staple of the city's ball season since 1998. It's run by HOSI Wien…
Whistler's winter Pride week goes back to 1992, when it began as Altitude Gay Ski Week. It is held in the ski resort of Whistler…
This is a nine-night Big Gay Cruise group sailing on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, round trip from Miami. It departs on…
The Teddy Award isn't a festival on its own - it's the queer film prize of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale…
The Arizona Gay Rodeo is a three-day IGRA-sanctioned rodeo run by the Arizona Gay Rodeo Association (AGRA) at Corona Ranch and…
Olivia's XOXO Caribbean Cruise is a women's charter built around Valentine's Day. Olivia has run lesbian travel since the 1990s…
VACAYA is an LGBTQ+ travel company that charters whole ships, so on this sailing every cabin is booked by the gay and queer…
Beyond Darklands is the new name, used since 2026, for Darklands, the fetish festival Leather Pride Belgium has run in Antwerp…
International Bear Convergence, usually called IBC, is Palm Springs' bear weekend. It runs over four or five days in mid-to-late…
Adelaide Fringe is not a queer festival. It is a huge open-access arts festival that runs for about a month every February and…
The Tuntenball (roughly "Queens' Ball") is Graz's big queer charity ball. It's the main fundraiser for the RosaLila PantherInnen…
ChillOut is Australia's largest regional queer pride festival, held every year since 1997 over Victoria's Labour Day long weekend…
Winter Party Festival is a circuit festival on Miami Beach produced by the National LGBTQ Task Force as a fundraiser. The 2027…
Gay Ski Week Hakuba is a ten-day hosted ski trip in the Hakuba Valley in Nagano in the Japanese Alps. It runs as part of the…
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is the biggest LGBTQ+ festival in the Southern Hemisphere, and the reason so many queer…
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is the night Sydney's queer community takes over Oxford Street, and it is one of the…
Atlantis Events charters Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas each March, and this is its biggest sailing. More than 5,600…
Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days) is Amsterdam's LGBTQ+ film festival. Staff from the Filmhuis Cavia and Rialto cinemas started it…
European Gay Ski Week is a week-long LGBTQIA+ ski and party holiday in Val Thorens, which the organisers call Europe's highest…
Winter Pride Sölden is a week of LGBTQ+ skiing and parties in Sölden, in Tyrol's Ötztal valley. It dates to the late 1990s, when…
SXSW is not a queer event. It is Austin's giant March week of conferences, film, TV and music showcases, and in 2025 the…
European Snow Pride, a week-long gay ski week in Tignes, French Alps, claims to be the biggest in Europe. It's been running since…
Texas Bear Round-Up, known as TBRU, is the Dallas Bears' yearly weekend for bears, cubs, otters and the men who like them. All of…
This is an Atlantis Events charter for gay men round trip from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Virgin Voyages' Valiant Lady. Virgin…
Wicked Queer is Boston's LGBTQ+ film festival. It has run since 1984, which makes it one of the oldest in the US. The Queer Film…
Sugar Bear is Montreal's spring bear weekend, run by Bear-It, the local company behind the yearly Mr. Bear Montréal contest. It…
Bear Carnival is a bear week in Maspalomas, in the south of Gran Canaria, built around the Yumbo Centre, the open-air shopping…
This is a six-night Big Gay Cruise group sailing to Mexico on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas, round trip from Los Angeles…
Pride in Progress is a march and festival in downtown Provo, not Orem. It is organised by the Cougar Pride Center, a nonprofit…
The Palm Springs Hot Rodeo is a gay rodeo held every spring under the International Gay Rodeo Association. It is produced by the…
Prague Rainbow Spring is still going. It's a long-running international LGBTQ+ sports weekend, linked to the Prague clubs Alcedo…
SweetHeat Miami is a week of parties for queer women. It runs in mid-May, a week or so before Memorial Day weekend, and isn't…
Cologne Fetish Pride is a five-day leather and fetish gathering over the Whitsun weekend, run by the Cologne club Rheinfetisch…
Women's Weekend Russian River is a four-day sapphic event in Guerneville, the riverside town in Sonoma County that has drawn…
The IGBO Annual is the yearly tournament and conference of the International Gay Bowling Organization, founded in 1980 as an…
Inside Out is Toronto's queer film festival, running since 1991 and now called the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival. It is about…
Lisbon Bear Pride is a week of bear events in Lisbon each May. Bear World Magazine says it has run every year since 2012. The…
Memorial Weekend Pensacola is a five-day gay beach party on Pensacola Beach. It is not a Pride march. Local accounts trace it…
Birmingham Pride started in May 1997 in the Gay Village around Hurst Street, and Lawrence Barton, who went to that first one, has…
Aarhus Pride is the pride day for Denmark's second city. It has been held every year since 2012, is run by volunteers from the…
Gay Days started on 1 June 1991, when gay men and lesbians were asked to wear red shirts and show up at Magic Kingdom on the same…
One Magical Weekend is a June weekend of LGBTQ+ parties in Orlando. Watermark Out News says it began as a Pride celebration at…
LiPride is Liechtenstein's Pride. It's held in Schaan, the town next to Vaduz, and not in the capital itself. The LGBTIQA+…
CommuniTEA Dance is the Adrienne Arsht Center's free Pride afternoon in downtown Miami. It is a tea dance with DJs and a drag…
West Pride is Gothenburg's pride week. It started in 2007, set up by the city, the Västra Götaland region and the LGBTQ group…
Sitges Pride is the town's June pride, a separate event from the February Carnival. Sitges is a small beach town about 40 minutes…
Orgullo Panamericano (Pan American Pride) is real, and it is separate from Guadalajara's regular June marches. It is billed as…
Motor City Pride is Detroit's pride and dates to a 1972 march against anti-gay laws; the picnic after that march grew into…
Oslo Pride is Norway's largest Pride: about ten days of debates, parties and culture in late June, ending with a Saturday parade…
Frameline is the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, founded in 1977 and widely described as the longest-running…
EuroPride moves to a different European city every year, chosen by the European Pride Organisers Association. Turin won the 2027…
Torino Pride is Turin's yearly Pride march, run by the Coordinamento Torino Pride, a coalition of local LGBTQIA+ groups. It is a…
Bristol Pride is a two-week festival that ends with Pride Day, the biggest LGBTQ+ gathering in South West England. It is a summer…
CSD Graz is the Pride parade of Styria, organized by RosaLila PantherInnen, the regional LGBTIQ+ association based on…
San Francisco Pride carries the weight of the city that became a world capital of gay life, and it still feels like a home crowd…
Santa Fe Pride is run by the Human Rights Alliance (HRA), a nonprofit that has worked on LGBTQ+ equality in New Mexico since 1993…
Chicago's Pride Parade is a neighbourhood parade on a big-city scale. The first march, in 1970, was a protest, and the parade…
Helsinki Pride is run by the nonprofit Helsinki Pride -yhteisö ry and is one of the largest public events held in Finland. It…
Cologne's CSD (Christopher Street Day) is Germany's biggest Pride and one of the largest in Europe. The city has a large, settled…
Cornwall Pride is not a single festival. It is a registered charity that runs a season of free, one-day Prides in towns across…
EuroGames is Europe's LGBTQ+ multi-sport championship. It runs under licence from the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation…
Rehoboth Beach Pride is real, but it is newer than most people assume. It was started in 2023 by Sussex Pride, a southern…
Leeds Pride, Yorkshire's biggest Pride, takes over the city centre for a weekend in mid July. It started in 2006 with around…
Up Your Alley, still widely known as Dore Alley, is San Francisco's July leather and fetish street fair: smaller and rougher than…
The Pines Party is Fire Island Pines' midsummer fundraiser weekend, started in 1999 by a group of Pines residents. It benefits…
The IGLA+ Championships are the yearly meet of the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics association, for LGBTQ+ swimmers…
Prague Pride is the Czech Republic's main Pride festival: a week of events in early August, ending with a Saturday parade through…
International Prague Bear Summer is a week of bear socials run by the Prague Bears club and timed to Prague Pride in early…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's biggest open-access arts festival. It isn't a queer event, but its LGBTQ+ slice is…
Hamburg's CSD (Christopher Street Day) has taken place every summer since 1980, a year after West Berlin's first. It is run by…
Ferndale Pride is Metro Detroit's main Pride street festival. It's held in Ferndale, the small suburb just north of Detroit's 8…
CSD Lübeck, also called Lübeck Pride, is the Christopher Street Day in Lübeck. Lübecker CSD e.V. organises it. The association is…
ELLA is a week-long festival on Mallorca for lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer women and non-binary people, run by the…
Womenfest is Key West's week for lesbian, bi and queer women, held at the start of September. It has run for more than 20 years…
Reykjavik Bear (RVKBear) is Iceland's annual bear weekend, held in early September. It took over from Bears on Ice, which ran for…
Folsom Europe is Berlin's leather and fetish street fair, held every September on Fuggerstrasse and Welserstrasse in Schöneberg…
Pride in Surrey is the county's Pride parade and park festival, first held in Woking in August 2019 and now based in Guildford…
Halle has held a Christopher Street Day every year since 1997. It has two parts. AIDS-Hilfe Halle/Sachsen-Anhalt Süd runs a…
Olivia's Greek Isles with Lesbos Cruise is a women's charter on a small ship. The draw is a day on Lesbos, the island of Sappho…
This is the 2027 Big Gay Cruise group sailing from Galveston, Texas. It is five nights on Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas…
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