Gay Pride Festival taking place in Cologne’s charming Old City district and kicks off at 6pm on Friday with a Street Festival. Cologne is Germany’s 4th largest city in Germany After the official opening there are stages in Heumarkt with DJs and different shows. The surrounding streets and square has a market with different types of stands.

The official parade is on Sunday afternoon from Deutzer Brücke to Komödienstraße wuth around 120 different floats.

The Berlin pride celebration known locally as CSD Berlin, is a parade and festival held in the second half of July each year for the LGBTQ community and allies. CSD stands for Christopher Street Day and has been held since 1979.

A large parade with many floats followed with a party in centre of Berlin popular with German and foreign tourists. Book your accommodation early as the city is generally full during the week of this event.

Amsterdam Gay Pride is a 3-day event with the main pride parade on the canal. You will find  all weekend long, the best city packed with thousands of LGBTQ community tourists and locals. The highlight of the weekend is the Canal Parade which starts around 12:30 and will take all afternoon.

The sides of the canals or balconies of any houses that have a view of the canal with spectators. Book your accommodation early as generally all of sells out week in advance of the event. The canal parade is held on the Saturday in the middle of the 3 days of main events.

Brighton Gay Pride is one of the most popular pride events in the UK. There is a popular parade through the streets of Brighton on the Saturday morning followed by huge festival event in Preston Park. Around 160,000 participants and spectators arrive in the St James Street area for the city’s biggest street party.

There is a Pride Village Street Party with 2 days of fund raising and entertainment.  Within the entertainment zone there are different areas for bears, cabaret and disco etc.

There are the official parties and events which generally make the Brighton Pride celebrations a full on party weekend for all attendees.

A 3 days event consider the best LGBTQ pride in the UK which attract many of the community from London. Typically majority of people book from Thursday to Monday so enjoy the fun pack 3 days of the event.

Book early to avoid disappointment as hotels and event tickets generally sell out in advance.

Fierté Montréal, also called Montreal Pride, is an annual LGBT pride festival in Montreal, Quebec. The event was founded in 2007 and the largest LGBTQ festival in Canada and francophone world with the multi-day event attracting more than 2.5 million local and international visitors

The parade is typically attended by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whom normally walks the length of the parade.

A full week of LGBTQ events with majority of attendees arriving on Thursday and exiting the city on Monday. The atmosphere in Montreal during the week is very up beat with whole city turned pink. Book early your accommodation and event tickets to avoid being disappointed.

Antwerp in the Flemish part of Belgium is an open-minded small city with a population of around 600,000. Antwerp actually staged Belgium’s first GLBT Pride Parade in 1979. The week-long pride activities include a mixture of activities with several different themes including drag & fetish

The parade departs from Sint-Jansplein at 14.00 and passes through different neighbourhoods to Gedempte Zuiderdokken. There is an after party at the Steenplein on the riverside and a closing party on Sunday at the Grote Market followed by a number of parties and events including Drama Queen and Pink Sunday.