During this weekend and the following weeks, many LGBT Pride events will continue to take place in Europe. The end of June is a time when we commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York which are considered the beginning of a global Pride movement.

This year, LGBT activists in St Petersburg (Russia) have been refused permission to organise their public event by the city authorities. In Sofia (Bulgaria) and Brno (Czech Republic) LGBT Pride events will go ahead, but their organisers and participants have been subjected to intimidations by neo-Nazi groups in the weeks and days before the event.

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