Celebrate Copenhagen Pride in 2024

Copenhagen Pride is Denmark’s largest annual Human Rights festival, held every year in August. Copenhagen Pride 2024 will last nine days, and has the theme With Pride. Lots has been achieved when it comes to rights and equality in Denmark in the last 60 years but some still believe it is something to oppose. Copenhagen Pride calls on everyone to do whatever they do With Pride.

This year, from 10 to 18 August, Copenhagen will again celebrate Pride throughout the city. City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen) will be transformed into Pride Square, an inclusive and welcoming area with food stalls, bars, performances and, the square will host Drag Night on the 16th and the big Pride show concert on the 17th. 

Copenhagen Pride consists of various interconnected programmes with a focus on human rights, culture and art, and of course the Parade. Not to miss venues, along with Pride Square include the Human Rights Tent on Regnbuepladsen, a place to go for debates, conversations and quizzes, and Rådhushaven, where many of the Children's Pride events will take place. But there are many other events throughout the city, including special exhibitions at museums, Queer Copenhagen walking tours en much more.

On Saturday 17 August, the Pride Parade takes over the streets of Copenhagen. The Parade will start at Frederiksberg City Hall, from where thousands of people, who take part in the parade will make their way via Allegade, Frederiksberg Allé and Vesterbrogade to City Hall Square. Last year, Copenhagen Pride was the first Pride in the world use only 100% electric vehicles during the Parade, this year they will continue to commit to a greener parade.

The Danish capital is actually one of the most gay-friendly places in the world. For instance, Denmark was the first country to legalise same-sex relationships, and there is nothing to stop gay and lesbian couples from getting married or adopting children. But there are those, a small but loud group of people, who wish to halt the progress that has been made and even reverse it.

This is why it is so important to live your life With Pride and show that those people are the minority. Copenhagen Pride calls on everyone to make the theme their own. To have fun with it, for example, by dancing with pride, hold hands with pride, and wear what you want with pride. There is no right or wrong way to interpret and present the theme, as long as you are sharing something that is close to your heart.

Copenhagen first organised a Pride in 1996, though smaller pride events were held in Copenhagen from the early 1970s. From 2015 the city also saw Copenhagen Winter Pride, which focuses on getting close to each other indoors, with a programme that offers a wide range of debates, lectures and activities that give the LGBTQIA+ community the opportunity to meet and socialise.