The 6 Prides left in 2026
The Pride calendar does not end in August. Six are still to come, and the first two land on the same day and on two continents, Taipei and Johannesburg on 31 October. Rio closes on 22 November. All six 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 →Saturday 31 October, twenty-fourth edition, under the theme «Our Voices, Our Journey». Reuters calls it East Asia's largest Pride: in 2024 the organisers counted more than 180,000 people and in 2025 it was around 150,000 per the CNA news agency. It starts and finishes at City Hall Plaza, setting off at five past two in the afternoon. Taiwan approved marriage equality in 2019, the first in Asia and still one of very few.
- #2
See full guide →Saturday 31 October, the same day as Taipei, on Katherine Street in Sandton Central. It is the thirty-seventh edition and the march leaves at two in the afternoon to cover 2.2 km, per the organisers. This is where the first Pride on the whole continent marched, on 13 October 1990, and it 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.
- #3
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.
- #4
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.
- #5
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.
- #6
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 six carry a date published by their own organisers. This list is pruned as they are held: Malta, Montevideo, Paris, Osaka, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Orlando have already gone by.