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Brussels does not join the European Pride season - it opens it. The Belgian Pride is held in May, ahead of all the big ones.
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Pride events cluster in the summer, but every city sets its own dates - Brussels often runs its march and its parties a month apart from the next city on this list.
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Pride in Brussels
The event draws some 100,000 people every May and is the first major date of the European season - while most capitals are still preparing for June and July, Brussels has already been out on the street. Belgium also has reason to go early: in 2003 it became the second country in the world, after the Netherlands, to open civil marriage to same-sex couples, and in 2006 it granted the right to adopt. The march crosses the centre and ends in parties and concerts in the city's squares.
Brussels is a city of institutions and of languages, and its Pride shows it: blocs from European organisations, associations from both language communities, and demands that are not only Belgian. The queer scene runs year-round, with most bars and clubs around the rue du Marché au Charbon in the centre, and venues that change from season to season in the neighbourhoods near the station. The list here shows LGBTQ+ friendly events as a whole and not only the days of the march; outside May it thins to the venues' standing nights. The early date has a practical consequence too: anyone wanting to see more than one Pride in a single summer usually starts here and carries on north or south over the months that follow.
Common questions
When is the Belgian Pride?+
In May. It is the first major date of the European Pride season and draws some 100,000 people in Brussels.
When did Belgium recognise same-sex marriage?+
In 2003, as the second country in the world after the Netherlands. The right for same-sex couples to adopt followed in 2006.