Cape Town Pride Festival

The Three week long annual Cape Town Pride Festival in February/March provides a platform for every member of Cape Town’s LGBTQI+ community to raise awareness of issues affecting them and campaign for the freedoms that will allow them to live their lives on a genuinely equal footing. Our annual Pride Parade and the Mardi Gras which follows speak loudly to the rest of the city about what we have achieved, how far we have come and what is still needed. Pride includes people of every race and faith, whether disabled or able-bodied and all sexualities and genders including lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, queer, questioning, intersex, trans*, genderqueer, gender variant or non-binary as well as straight and cis allies. Cape Town Pride is run entirely by volunteers. Although we have a progressive constitution, we face daily reminders that the global battle for true equality is far from over, and rights hard won can be threatened, attacked and taken away. It has taken our community ...