Pride Event Management
Pride celebration events are often the highlight of the LGBTQ community's yearly calendar. Such events are now held around the world and throughout the year.
Perhaps the most high profile event for the community is the Pride Parade. The world’s first Pride Parade, dubbed the Gay Liberation Parade, was held in New York City in 1970 on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riot. Similar events quickly established themselves around the world, though they were small and regional events compared to the massively organized Pride Parades we witness today throughout the developed world. At the time, they were controversial and regarded disparagingly by the population in general. The LGBTQ community did not care, however – they viewed such parades as legitimate annual celebratory opportunities to affirm their identity, dress and act outrageously, freely congregate, and be happy as a community for one day in the life of a marginalized, suppressed population.
Argentina
- Maria Rachid - Buenos Aires
Australia
- Brett Hayhoe - Victoria
Brazil
Canada
- Kevin Beaulieu - Toronto
- Antoine Elhashem - Durham
- Bruno Laprade - Montreal
- Michael Phair - Edmonton
- Teddy Syrette - Sault Ste. Marie
- Bradley Tyler-West - Winnipeg
China
- Connie Chan - Hong Kong
Finland
- Kristiina Puukko - Helsinki
Great Britain
- Jackie Crozier - Manchester
- Fox Fisher - Brighton
- Colm Howard-Lloyd - London
- Tom Knight - London
- Phyll Opoku-Gyimah - Black Pride, London
- Heather Peace - London
- Lisa Power - Pride Cymru
- Michael Salter - London
- Louise Thomas - Pride Cymru
Hungary
- Adrian Balaci - Budapest
Iceland
India
- Nakshatra Bagwe - Gujara
Italy
- Imma Battaglia - Rome
- Sergio Lo Giudice - Bologna
- Titte De Simone - Palermo
Laos
Mexico
Poland
Russia
Scotland
- John Hein - Edinburgh
South Africa
- Luiz DeBarros - Johannesburg
- Zakhele Mbhele - Johannesburg
- Noxolo Nogwaza
South Korea
- Woo Ji-Young - Seoul
Spain
- Alfonso Llopart - Madrid
Uganda
United States
- Matt Foreman - New York City
- Charles Irwin - Colorado Springs
- William Lippert - Vermont
- Craig Rodwell - New York City