Are you also looking forward to the Pride week? Prague Pride prepared over a hundred events that will také place between the 3rd and 9th of August! Here are 10 outdoor events that you should definitely check out:
This year, Saturday will once again be the pinnacle of the whole festival! Although it will a little bit different from what we are used to during Prague Pride. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the Rainbow march. We‘re truly sorry about this, it was supposed to be the tenth one, maybe the biggest one yet! Coronavirus made things rather complicated, as we wouldn‘t have any possibility to control the maximum amount of participants and the spacing between them. And a Pride march without the hugs and kisses just wouldn‘t cut it anyway.
We watched the situation around Covid-19 closely throughout the spring, and with each deterioration, our anxiety grew. The question of what will happen to Prague Pride, celebrating its tenth birthday this year, was actual week after week. Like the organizers of festivals and other events, we did not know the answer to it. But we were clear about one thing - we want to organize Prague Pride this year so that all participants can enjoy it just like in previous years. We will not postpone Prague Pride to the next year, as many foreign countries have done, because we believe in a certain irreplaceability of this event in the Czech and Central European society.
There will be a Prague Pride 10th edition this year, as planned, on 3-9 August 2020. But we are already aware that the coronavirus pandemic will have a strong impact on how the Pride week will look like.
According to experts, if you are not in a certain age group (around 70 years of age) nor have ongoing health problems, you are not in danger in case of contracting COVID-19. How about HIV+ people? There are various messages roaming the internet, as there always are, not all true. That’s why we have decided to do our own research from reliable sources and to answer some basic questions concerning HIV+ people in the current situation.
Coronavirus is a new experience for all of us. We could not prepare ourselves for this at school, not even by watching apocalyptic movies. This new situation can make us feel strong, even conflicting emotions.
Prague Pride association has been strongly affected by the coronavirus situation, same as other organizations. After gathering and movement of people had been restricted, we have cancelled some small events and decided to postpone the bigger ones. We have been also thinking about new formats for events held in the times of pandemics. Well-being of the public and our own team is a priority for us. Yet we keep working.
Sbarvouven.cz, the LGBT peer-to-peer mentoring website, celebrated its 5th birthday in February of this year. Since its inception it has helped 3,500 clients, the majority of whom are people under the age of 25. Last year saw the second-highest number of clients – only in the first year of the website had more people asked for help.
This will be the tenth year that hundreds of people have pledged to run down phobias. The charity run to fight homophobia and stigmatization of people with HIV will take place on Sunday May 17 to commemorate the day that homosexuality was struck off the list of WHO mental diseases thirty years ago.
Prague Pride z. s.
Rybná 716/24
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Reg. ID 22842730
Registration in the Register of Association: Municipal Court in Prague, Section L, Insert No. 22311
