All About Metro Manila Pride March 2023

June is Pride Month, a month dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. Pride is a celebration of people coming together in friendship and love to demonstrate how far LGBTQ+ rights have come and how there is still work to be done in some areas. There are frequently vibrant parades, concerts, and marches during Pride Month. Global Pride Day is on June 27, and live streams of performances honoring pride are scheduled.

A Brief Background on the Pride March and Festival

The Stonewall Riots, which occurred on June 28, 1969, are frequently cited as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQIA+ rights movement. The Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay bar in New York City, underwent a police raid, and as a result, the community and its patrons fought back against the persistent harassment and discrimination they endured. The riots, which lasted for several days, led to a surge in activism.

The Stonewall Inn is situated on Christopher Street, where the LGBTQIA+ community gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the Riots a year later. This eventually developed into an annual custom, both domestically and abroad, that not only commemorates the beginning of the contemporary LGBTQIA+ movement but also recognizes the community's ongoing struggles and accomplishments.

On June 28, 1970, the first Pride marches were held in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising's first anniversary. Thousands of LGBT+ individuals gathered to honor Stonewall and show support for equal rights. The Stonewall protests and the subsequent liberation movements were a direct result of decades of LGBT+ activism and organization.

Pride March in the Philippines

Dedicated to empowering the Filipino LGBTQIA+ and their communities, Metro Manila Pride is a volunteer-run, non-partisan organization. It strives for a future in which LGBTQIA+ people's rights to a life of dignity free from prejudice and discrimination are recognized and upheld.

Every year, Metro Manila hosts the Pride March and Festival, which is free and open to the public. The event is both a celebration and a large-scale protest because it is a public act of joy. Every year, we celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community in the Philippines by building a space that inspires and gives us the courage to come together and demand radical change in Philippine institutions.

Metro Manila Pride is set for June 24

The 2023 edition of the annual Metro Manila Pride March and Festival will take place on June 24, according to the event's organizers. The 2023 Metro Manila Pride date was revealed in a "save the date" teaser video that organizers posted on various social media sites.

With a number of events and performances highlighting and supporting the LGBTQIA+ community, the Metro Manila Pride March and Festival, the biggest in Southeast Asia, concludes a month-long celebration of pride in June. Several hundred people attended the inaugural Metro Manila Pride in 1994, which later grew to several thousand; in 2018, an estimated 25,000 people attended the event at the Marikina Sports Complex, which was three times as large as the year before and featured 82% first-time attendees. The first physical gathering after the pandemic, with about 29,000 people in attendance, was held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Open Grounds.

The Metro Manila Pride March and Festival will wrap up weeks of events aimed at enlightening the public and empowering members of the gay community during Pride Month in June. It is not also limited to festivals; The main initiatives of Metro Manila Pride take place all year long, from the annual Pride March and Festival to numerous initiatives supporting education and the arts. Their initiatives seek to support political actions that advance the LGBTQIA+ community's rights in the Philippines, promote social change, and support the numerous cultural workers who uplift and inspire them on a daily basis.

Makati and Quezon City to Host Pride Festivals

The Metro Manila Pride that will take place on June 24 will be held at Circuit Makati, while Quezon City will again host its own Pride Festival at the Quezon Memorial Circle on the same date.

It is noted that the Quezon City local government has invited the community into their home for the past two years. This year's festival, which is put on by Pride PH, one of the largest networks of LGBTQIA+ individuals and groups in the nation, will be centered around the idea of "Love, Laban: A Celebration of the Fight for Love in All Forms and Ways." The Pride Expo, the Pride March, and Pride Night will be the three main events at the gathering.

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Why is it important to celebrate Pride?

Fighting shame and social stigma and standing up to threats and violence requires visibility. Events like Pride encourage the celebration of diversity and demonstrate that the LGBTQ+ community will not back down from its demands for equality.

Pride will remain vitally important until everyone can stroll hand in hand with the people they love without fear of being attacked. Allow pride celebrations to serve as a reminder that the struggle against antiquated ideas and injustices must extend beyond the march itself. There is always hope and happy pride!

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