Gay pride parades were held yesterday across Europe. In Paris, the joy of about 30 thousand participants for the recovery after the stop dictated by the pandemic. In Turkey, where Pride events have been banned since 2015, police blocked roads in Istanbul to prevent protesters from marching, according to the opposition newspaper Republic, at least 25 people were detained.
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by our correspondent Emanuele Gamba
From Berlin to Skopje
In Berlin the demonstrators took three routes to get to Alexanderplatz, thousands had marched on Friday in Tel Aviv, one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world, and it was also celebrated in Italy, in Milan and Rome but not only, and then Seville, Los Angeles, Skopje in North Macedonia.
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The next parades
But the calendar does not stop there: on 3 July the parades in Budapest and Munich are scheduled, on 15 July it will be the turn of the London Pride Festival, on 16 in Frankfurt, August will be the month of Prague, Reykjavík, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Montreal, Copenhagen and Silicon Valley. And it will continue in other cities also in September and October.
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Where Pride did not take place
As for Dublin, traditionally the most famous Gay Pride, because it lasts 10 days, this year there will be only a virtual event, due to Covid, while in Lisbon the march was canceled for the same reason and in London the event was postponed to 11 September given the increase in infections in the United Kingdom for the new Delta variant.
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