Hamburg Pride

Stockholm hosted one of Europe's largest pride parades on Saturday, with an estimated 50,000 participants and half a million spectators lining the streets despite heightened security concerns following a terrorist attack at Berlin's pride event a week earlier.

The July 25 Berlin attack, which German officials classified as an Islamist terrorist incident, killed one person and wounded 29. Stockholm Pride organizers held a minute of silence with the German Embassy at the event's opening. Swedish police, coordinating with Säpo and pride organizations, assessed no elevated threat to Saturday's parade, deploying drones and both plainclothes and uniformed officers as precautions.

The parade followed a new route from Norr Mälarstrand through the city center to Slussen, disrupting metro, bus, and tram services. SVT broadcast live coverage hosted by Fredrik Ralstrand, featuring entertainer Jonas Gardell and police operations chief Annika Laestadius.

Hundreds of thousands of people descended on the British seaside city of Brighton on Saturday for its annual Pride parade, drawing crowds to the coastal city for its 35th anniversary under the theme 'the power of love.'

The parade began at Hove Lawns and is expected to finish at Preston Park, where a two-day ticketed festival features headliners Raye on Saturday and Diana Ross on Sunday, alongside performances from Jessie J and Five. Organisers expect up to 450,000 people city-wide over the weekend, with armed police confirmed to be present at the event. The celebrations come one week after an Islamist attacker in Berlin drove into Christopher Street Day participants and attacked others with a machete, killing a Polish woman and injuring 31 people. Pride events also took place Saturday in Hamburg, Amsterdam and Stockholm.

Around 300,000 people took to the streets of Hamburg on Saturday for the city's Christopher Street Day parade, marking a record turnout just one week after a deadly Islamist attack on a similar event in Berlin.

The peaceful demonstration proceeded under the motto "Solidary queer. Taking a stand — for a future without fear!" with 60 trucks serving as rolling stages through the city center. Police doubled their deployment compared with last year and installed concrete barriers following the Berlin rampage, in which a 21-year-old attacker killed a Polish woman and injured 31 others before being shot dead by officers.

Participants, including drag queen Olivia Jones and senior politicians, wore black armbands in solidarity with Berlin. Pride events across Europe, from Amsterdam to Stockholm, echoed the defiance, with Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten joining Amsterdam's canal parade.

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten became the first sitting prime minister to sail in Amsterdam's Pride canal parade, joining the flotilla from the National Maritime Museum as 80 decorated boats set off from the Oosterdok shortly after noon on Friday.

Amsterdam is hosting WorldPride for the first time in the Netherlands, with around 500,000 visitors expected for the canal procession. During the event, Jetten called on young LGBTIQ people to come out openly. The Dutch government has pledged to advance the Rainbow Voting Agreement, a package of commitments on LGBTIQ emancipation backed by 35 million euros for security and cooperation with police and major cities. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said protest is more effective when it is festive.

Security was tightened following an attack on Berlin's Pride event a week earlier. In Hamburg, tens of thousands attended a separate Pride demonstration, where police doubled their deployment from last year.