Gay Pride Parade, which was held for the first time in 1977, nowadays takes place in a different city each year. From 1979, was also organized in Belgium, but it has always been held in Brussels since 1996 and is called since 2010 The Belgian Pride.
Gay Pride is an annually organized Parade, which has besides meeting, also an ojective of homosexual emancipation, having demonstrative and political character. This is in contrast to the equally annual Amsterdam Gay Pride, which is originally mainly a party around the Canal Parade. Today, both events have both a political and a festive sides.
Gay Pride is in principle held annually on the last Saturday of June. On that day, in New York in 1969 riots broke out after police invided the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Christopher Street. The riots led to the organized struggle for the rights for gays and lesbians, which was reflected in the first Gay Pride Parade, which was held in New York on June 28, 1970. They organize such parades in other countries. Continue reading “Free Essay on Gay Pride”