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37 Beautiful Photos Of LGBTQ Pride Celebrations Around The World

From Albania to India, these photos show that Pride celebrations are truly global.
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A Pride parade in Salerno, Italy on May 26, 2018.
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With Pride Month just starting in the U.S., it’s important to remember that Pride celebrations look and feel many different ways in countries and cultures around the world.

From Albania to India, Pride truly is a worldwide celebration of LGBTQ identity and freedom on a global level ― and these photos truly embody that sentiment. Happy Pride!

Italy
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Two men celebrate at a Pride parade in Salerno, Italy, on May 26, 2018.
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Belgium
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Participants watch the annual Belgian LGBTQ Pride Parade in central Brussels, Belgium, May 19, 2018.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters
A participant is seen during the annual Belgian LGBTQ Pride Parade in central Brussels.
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Participants dressed in royal wedding costumes are seen during the annual Belgian LGBTQ Pride Parade in central Brussels.
Poland
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A woman holds a huge rainbow flag during the Pride Parade in Krakow.
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A man carries a rainbow flag next to police at the Pride Parade.
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Cuba
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A couple kisses in the pride parade during the celebration of the day against homophobia and transphobia in Havana, on May 12, 2018.
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YAMIL LAGE via Getty Images
Mariela Castro, center, daughter of Cuban former President Raul Castro and the director of the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), participates in the Gay Pride parade during the celebration of the day against homophobia and transphobia in Havana.
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Albania
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An Albanian LGBTQ activist waves a rainbow flag as she attends Tirana Gay Pride to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on the main boulevard in Tirana on May 13, 2018.
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GENT SHKULLAKU via Getty Images
GENT SHKULLAKU via Getty Images
Japan
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Participants march in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade on the streets of Tokyo, Japan May 6, 2018.
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Participants dressed in wedding clothes march in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade.
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MARTIN BUREAU via Getty Images
Australia
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People participate in the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade in Sydney on March 3, 2018.
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People participate in the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade in Sydney on March 3, 2018. Rainbow colours beamed from faces and floats parading through Sydney March 3 as hundreds of thousands of partygoers celebrated 40 years of the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
India
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Indian members and supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community take part in the 'Ahmedabad Queer Pride 2018' parade in Ahmedabad, India on Feb. 18, 2018.
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GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA - 2018/02/11: 5th QUEER PRIDE Walk March through the streets to reclaim space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Inter-sexes and Asexual persons. It is a struggle for assertion of marginalized identities and claiming rights for LGBTQ persons. (Photo by David Talukdar/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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People celebrate in a pride parade Guwahati, Assam, India.
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People celebrate in a pride parade Guwahati, Assam, India.
New Zealand
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Dancers in the parade on Feb. 17, 2018 in The Auckland Pride Parade.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, center, is the first prime minister to walk in the Pride Parade on Feb. 17, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.
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A rainbow police car joins the parade on Feb. 17, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Mexico
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Members of the LGBTQ community carry the rainbow flag during the Lesbian and Gay Pride rally at the Bellas Artes Palace in Mexico City, Mexico on Jan. 27, 2018.
Daniel Becerril / Reuters

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Gay Marriage
Malta(01 of12)
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People celebrate in front of the rainbow-colour lit Auberge de Castille, the office of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, after the Maltese parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriage on the Roman Catholic Mediterranean island, in Valletta, Malta, July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (credit:Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters)
Australia(02 of12)
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Members of Sydney's gay community react as they celebrate after it was announced the majority of Australians support same-sex marriage in a national survey, paving the way for legislation to make the country the 26th nation to formalize the unions by the end of the year, at a pub located on Sydney's Oxford street, Australia, November 15, 2017. REUTERS/Steven Saphore (credit:Steven Saphore / Reuters)
Germany(03 of12)
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Bode Mende (R) and Karl Kreile stamp their marriage certificate as they became Germany's first gay couple to be legally married tying the knot at the Schoeneberg town hall in Berlin on October 1, 2017..Germany celebrates its first gay marriages as same-sex unions become legal after decades of struggle.Local authorities rushed to get weddings underway as soon as possible, after lawmakers voted on June 30th to give Germany's roughly 94,000 same-sex couples the right to marry. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP Contributor via Getty Images)
Finland(04 of12)
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Supporters of the same-sex marriage celebrate outside the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki, Finland on November 28, 2014 after the Finnish parliament approved a bill allowing same sex marriage. AFP PHOTO /Lehtikuva/ VESA MOILANEN *** FINLAND OUT *** (Photo credit should read VESA MOILANEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:VESA MOILANEN via Getty Images)
Ireland(05 of12)
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People react as Ireland voted in favour of allowing same-sex marriage in a historic referendum, in Dublin May 23, 2015. Ireland became the first country in the world to adopt same-sex marriage by popular vote as 62 percent of the electorate backed a referendum, official results showed on Saturday. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (credit:Cathal McNaughton / Reuters)
United States(06 of12)
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WASHINGTON, DC- JUNE 26: With at colorful White House backdrop, (L) Kevin Barragan and his partner Adam Smith celebrate the decision today as do Kelly Miller (with glasses) and her wife Lindsey Miller. The Miller's were married 2 years ago in Washington State where gay marriage was legal.The White House was lit in multi-colored lights tonight to honor the Supreme Court decision to allow gay marriage. Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Scotland(07 of12)
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 31: A couple of the same sex Joe Schofield (blue kilt) and Malcolm Brown from Tullibody, Clackmannanshire are married by Ross Wright, Celebrant from Humanist Society Scotland in the Trades Hall shortly after midnight in front of friends and family in one of the first same-sex and belief category weddings in Scotland on December 31, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. Same-sex couples have been able to enter into 'civil partnerships' since 2005, however following a change in the law on February 4, 2014. A couple of the same sex are now eligible to marry in Scotland. Parliament's decision to grant same-sex couples an equal right to marriage has been met with opposition from religious groups. Gay marriage is already legal in England and Wales, however the Northern Ireland administration has no plans to make it law. (Photo by Mark Runnacles/Getty Images) (credit:Mark Runnacles via Getty Images)
England(08 of12)
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Gay couple Andrew Wale (L) and Neil Allard reacts to crowds, friends, family and the press after marrying in the first same-sex wedding in Brighton, at the Royal Pavilion in southern England March 29, 2014. Saturday will be the first day gay couples will be allowed to tie the knot in England and Wales after the government legalised same-sex marriage last July. Wale and Allard are the first out of five same-sex couples tying the knot in Brighton on Saturday. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: SOCIETY) (credit:Luke MacGregor / Reuters)
New Zealand(09 of12)
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Gay-rights supporters celebrate at the San Francisco Bath House bar in Wellington on April 17, 2013 after New Zealand became the first Asia-Pacific country to legalise same-sex marriage after a decades-long campaign. A parliamentary vote overwhelmingly backed a move to amend the 1955 Marriage Act 77-44 to describe matrimony as a union of two people regardless of their sex, sexuality or how they choose to identify their gender. AFP PHOTO / MARTY MELVILLE (Photo credit should read Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MARTY MELVILLE via Getty Images)
France(10 of12)
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People gather to celebrate the passage of a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, in Paris April 23, 2013. French lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday, a flagship reform pledge by French President which sparked often violent street protests and a rise in homophobic attacks. The law legalises gay marriage and gives gay and lesbian couples adoption rights. Sign reads, "Yes to Equality". REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) (credit:Charles Platiau / Reuters)
Brazil(11 of12)
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Deco (R) kisses his partner Lohren Beauty as they hold a rainbow flag before their wedding ceremony in Campinas, 100 km (62 miles) from Sao Paulo March 21, 2013. Deco works as a journalist and Lohren Beauty works as a stylist and drag queen. Sixteen same-sex couples gathered and wed in Campinas on Thursday. The first same-sex marriage in Brazil occurred in the state of Sao Paulo in 2011 after a court ruled that a same-sex civil union could be converted into a legal marriage. The formalization of same-sex marriage was legalized by the state of Sao Paulo in December 2012, after a court ruled that gay couples could marry without having to first have their union authorized through a court. The new standard went into effect on March 1, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: SOCIETY) (credit:Nacho Doce / Reuters)
Uruguay(12 of12)
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A man celebrates outside the Congress building after Uruguay's Congress passed a bill to allow same-sex marriages, making it the second country in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America to do so April 10, 2013. Seventy-one of 92 lawmakers in the lower house of Congress voted in favor of the proposal, one week after the Senate passed it by a wide majority. Leftist President Jose Mujica, a former guerrilla fighter, is expected to sign the bill into law. REUTERS/Andres Stapff (URUGUAY) (credit:Andres Stapff / Reuters)
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