Watch: Scenes From Yesterday’s Vibrant Valletta Pride March
Valletta’s streets were filled with proud marchers yesterday evening, celebrating this year’s Malta Pride Week.
These last seven days, have been filled with nearly 40 activities all centred around the theme #20YearsofPride, celebrating diversity and highlighting the ongoing fights for GBTIQ+ rights and visibility.
Yesterday’s March had hundreds of attendees from members of the community to allies, politicians, and local celebrities – Valletta’s streets saw a whole lot of love from a whole lot of people.
As the grand finale of Malta Pride Week 2024, today’s events are set to impress with Lollipop Disco Tits that started at 2pm at Cabo Terrace and an end to the night at Maori with Queer Classics starting at 7pm
Pride is executed all across the world and it acts as both a celebration and a protest. In fact, it was created to commemorate the 1969 US Stonewall Uprising.
The events of Stonewall and the liberation movements that followed were a direct result of prior decades of LGBT+ activism and organising.
The Stonewall Uprisings were a moment of resistance, so many countries commemorate it by celebrating the freedom that was fought so hard for. Unfortunately, this liberation is not the case everywhere with members of the community still being targeted by hatred, discrimination and violence all across the world.
In some states being anything other than heterosexual is illegal, while in others, the discrimination is more covert. So while Pride acts as a celebration of liberation, it is also a reminder of present devastating global shortcomings.
Slides 1,3,4 and 8: OPM
Slides 2,5 and 7: @glenvellaofficial
Slide 9: @adrwey
Did you celebrate Pride this year?
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