It follows Rua da Consolação to the end at Praça Roosevelt, in Downtown São Paulo, at around 10 PM. The parade is 2.6 miles long (4.2 km) and starts at Avenida Paulista (MASP), at around noon. Even though the meeting time is at 12 noon, the parade doesn't start to move before 2 or 3 PM. The meeting point is at the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo) right at the middle of São Paulo's postcard Avenida Paulista. In 2009, 3.2 million people attended the 13th annual São Paulo Gay Pride Parade. The march is the event's main activity and the one that draws the biggest attention to the press, the Brazilian authorities as well as to the hundreds of thousands of curious people that line themselves along the parade's route. The Pride and its associated events are organized by the APOGLBT (Associação da Parada do Orgulho de Gays, Lesbicas, Bissexuais e Travestis e Transexuais), since its foundation in 1999. According to the LGBT app Grindr, the gay parade of the city was elected the best in the world. In 2010, the city hall of São Paulo invested 1 million reais in the parade. In 2019, it was also the second larger event of the city of São Paulo in terms of total revenue (after Carnaval) and the first in terms of daily revenue. As of 2019 it has three to five million attendants each year. They had five million attendants in 2017. They have kept the title from 2006 to at least 2016. They broke the Guinness record in 2009 with four million attendees. It is South America’s largest Pride parade, and is listed by Guinness World Records as the biggest pride parade in the world starting in 2006 with 2.5 million people. São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade ( Portuguese: Parada do Orgulho LGBTQ de São Paulo) is an annual gay pride parade that has taken place in Avenida Paulista, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, since 1997. Here is where to find a copy.Sunday after the annual holiday of Corpus Christi This article was published in BIRN’s bi-weekly newspaper Belgrade Insight. Pride Week 2017 will be opened by Mirko Ilic’s exhibition, entitled “Tolerance” at the Kalemegdan terrace on September 11 at 12am.įor detailed information about the program, visit parada.rs. In 2014, 20, the marches passed off without incident, after officials warned that violence would not be tolerated and after police maintained a higher profile presence, deploying armoured vehicles and a helicopter to prevent attacks. Pride marches were cancelled in 2009, 2011, 20 as the authorities said they could not protect the participants. In 2010, the parade went ahead, but several thousand young people caused mayhem on the streets, throwing stones and missiles, injuring police and setting buildings and vehicles on fire.
The first attempt to arrange a Belgrade Pride Parade in 2001, however, was disrupted by large numbers of far-right nationalists who attacked and beat up the participants. Pride Parade Belgrade [Parada Ponosa Beograda’ is the main organiser of the Pride Week, as it has been since the organisation was established in 2010. We believe that Belgrade and Serbia are ready for that,” Miletic told Tanjug news agency. “We expect that from hiding away and going out on the streets twice a year, we will turn into something that is permanent and which is not in hiding. The Program Director of Civil Rights Defenders for the Western Balkans, Goran Miletic, called the opening of the info centre a historic step for Serbia. In relation to the Pride Week, the first Pride Info Centre opened in Belgrade on August 29, and will be open every day until September 25. Nine organisations are reported to be participating in this year’s march. The parade will start at 12am at Cvetni Square and end at Republic Square. The central event, however, will be the Pride Parade, which is scheduled for the end of the Pride Week, on September 17. This year ’s Belgrade Pride, which runs from September 11 to September 17, offers a varied program, including exhibitions, film screenings and literary evenings at various locations throughout the city.Īs in preceding years, violence against LGBT people, adoption of a law on registered partnerships as well as open and objective reporting of LGBT issues are some of the central themes for this year ’s Pride Week. The main event of this year´s Pride Week will be the Pride Parade, which is scheduled for the end of Pride Week, on September 17.