Bogotá Pride — Marcha LGBT+

Bogotá's Marcha del Orgullo has grown from a brave handful into one of the city's biggest public gatherings. On 28 June 1982, no more than 30 people walked from Plaza La Santamaría to Plaza de las Nieves, flanked by police. Today the main march, the Marcha Distrital de la Ciudadanía LGBTI, fills Carrera Séptima. No single group owns it: it is called by citizen collectives, with logistical backing from the district government.

The main march walks down Carrera Séptima, the old spine of the city, and ends in Plaza de Bolívar in front of Congress and the cathedral, where the speeches happen. Everything is free and on foot. Bogotá is also unusual in having several marches in the same month, which makes it a more political Pride than most: a Marcha del Sur in the working-class south, a Contramarcha that started about six years ago as a pushback against corporate and institutional Pride, and Yo Marcho Trans, focused on trans and non-binary rights. They sit inside the Festival por la Igualdad, a month of talks, parties and cultural events that bills itself as Colombia's oldest diversity festival.