The 8 Prides left in 2026
The Pride calendar does not end in August. Eight are still to come, and the first two land on the same day, 17 October: the Las Vegas festival and Orlando's Pride. Then comes another coincidence, this one across two continents, with Taipei and Johannesburg on the 31st. Rio closes on 22 November. All eight carry a date published by their own organisers. In the southern hemisphere Pride belongs to spring, so Buenos Aires and Rio close the year instead of opening it.
- #1
See full guide →Festival on Saturday 17 October at the Desert Breeze Events Center, noon to ten and $10 admission, which is what is left of this edition: the parade has already gone, at night and through downtown, on Friday the 9th. A night parade is unusual among the big ones, since almost all of them march in the morning or at midday, and the floats are lit.
- #2
See full guide →Saturday 17 October at Lake Eola Park, downtown, with the parade at four in the afternoon and fireworks at half past nine. The organisers count more than 250 groups and businesses in the parade, over 230,000 attendees last year, and present it as Central Florida's biggest single-day event. Another US Pride that lands in October rather than June.
- #3
See full guide →Saturday 31 October, twenty-fourth edition. It has been Asia's largest Pride since 2019, when it passed 200,000 people; in 2024 there were 180,000 and in 2025 around 150,000. This year it falls on Halloween, so costumes join the flags around Ximen. Taiwan approved marriage equality in 2019, the first in Asia and still one of very few.
- #4
See full guide →Saturday 31 October, the same day as Taipei, on Katherine Street in Sandton. It is the thirty-seventh edition, and this is where the first Pride on the whole continent marched: on 13 October 1990 and doubled as an anti-apartheid demonstration, four years before apartheid ended. South Africa was the first country in the world whose constitution explicitly banned discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, in 1996.
- #5
See full guide →6 to 8 November, with the parade on Sunday the 8th at ten in the morning along Palm Canyon Drive. Fortieth edition. It began in 1986 as a variety show called «Sizzle» in the Riviera Resort ballroom, and in 1995 it moved from Memorial Day weekend, in May, to Veterans Day weekend: the organisers say the change sent hotel occupancy up.
- #6
See full guide →Saturday 7 November, with a fair on Plaza de Mayo from the morning and the march in the afternoon towards Congress. This year's slogan is «El orgullo al poder. El odio al carajo». It is not in June: the Buenos Aires march goes in November in memory of the founding of Nuestro Mundo, the first homosexual organisation in Argentina and in Latin America, born in November 1967.
- #7
See full guide →Saturday 14 November, and it is worth knowing what you would find: there is no parade. What the organisers have announced is the Rainbow Market, an indoor market at Central Market. The last street march was in 2018: in 2019 the police turned down the application and it became a static rally, in 2020 the pandemic cancelled it, and it has not gone out since. The indoor format has become the norm.
- #8
See full guide →Sunday 22 November on Copacabana's Avenida Atlântica, thirty-first edition and the year's closer. The theme is «Reconhecemos justa toda forma de amor e de existência» — we recognise as just every form of love and of existence.
Lined up, the calendar shows something you miss if you only look at June: Pride season is a northern-hemisphere convention. In the south it goes with spring, which is why Buenos Aires and Rio close the year. In the United States, Atlanta and Orlando move to October to sit beside National Coming Out Day, and Las Vegas and Palm Springs wait for the desert heat to drop. And Hong Kong is a reminder that a Pride can also shrink — there is still a date, but no longer a street. All eight carry a date published by their own organisers. This list is pruned as they are held: Malta, Montevideo, Paris, Osaka and Atlanta have already gone by.