The ninth edition of the week-long Prague Pride festival celebrating sexual
minorities culminated on Saturday afternoon with a massive parade through
the Czech capital.
Despite the rain, organisers said more than 30,000 people turned out to
watch or take part in the colorful event, marked by wild costumes and
floats.
Among the marchers in procession under the rainbow flag from Wenceslas
Square to Letná Park, on the other side of the Vltava River, were
representatives from 11 embassies. They marched under the banner Diplomats
for Equality.
The festival’s theme this year is ‘Together Within Reach’. It notes
that 50 years since the birth of the gay rights, in the Stonewall protests
in New York, many same-sex couples still shy from public displays of
affection due to intolerance.
For the first time this year, the LGBT rainbow flag will be flown at the
city’s Town Hall in support of the Prague Pride festival. After the
parade, a dance party will continue in the Letná Park area.