Above, participants of a parade in Tokyo’s Shibuya district in 2017. The LGBTQI+ community in Tokyo organizes for Pride annually. Above are participants from the 2021 event. Tel Aviv hosts large Pride celebrations each year. Above is a participant during the 2011 parade. Guatemala City had the country’s first Pride parade in 2000.

Above are participants from the 2021 Berlin festival. The Berlin festival is called Christopher Street Day in memory of the Stonewall Uprising and the Stonewall Inn, which is located on Christopher Street. The previous law imposed up to seven years in prison for same-sex relationships. Gaborone’s 2019 Pride event was the first following a ruling by Botswana’s High Court that decriminalized same-sex relationships. Botswana (© Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images) Here are a few examples from around the world. Today’s Pride events emphasize the community’s desire for an end to discrimination, violence and stigma and support for equal rights and justice. In 1999, President Clinton declared that the United States would recognize June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.ĭuring the 2000s, activists - particularly in the United States - used Pride Month to draw attention to legal recognition of same-sex marriage, among other issues.