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Cape Town is the only city in the country which holds its Pride month in February, of course this the height of the city’s summer season, when the mother city is teeming with tourists and the locals are basking in the magic of the Western Cape’s long, hot summer.

The Pride calendar this year was filled with over 32 events, from small informative workshops and intimate naked-reading nights to large glamorous events like the Mr & Miss Cape Town Pride Pageant and the Hero Awards which this year was sponsored by Sanlam.

The fact that Cape Town Pride is so important on the South African LGBT+ calendar was seen with the support and presence of the organisers of other major Pride celebrations in the country. Kay Alley was down from Jo’burg Pride and Bruce Walker from Pretoria Pride were both in the city for the Pride Festival day.

The march this year went of better that any year before and was the largest to date ... with a giant float from Schmidhauser Electrical to a fleet of rainbow coloured Jeeps. The dykes on Bikes led the parade as they do every year. In the crowd were drag queens in their finery and their highest heels, roller-bladers, and marchers dressed in their most colourful and in some instances outrageous Pride outfits made the 2023 parade the most colourful.

This year organisers were happy to report that there very few incidents of cell-phone theft as scourge at a past pride event when a team of thieves targeted the event. There were no instances of fighting, violence, homophobia, bi-phobia or transphobia. Right next door to the Pride event was a Stormers/ Bulls rugby match at the main stadium ... and there were concerns by some officials but we can be proud to claim that we’re possibly the most tolerant city in Africa!!!

Plans are already underway for Pride 2024 ... a tentative date has been set and the venue has been provisionally booked so pencil in to your calender the 2nd March for the Pride march and Festival Mardi Gras and start planning to make Pride 2024 the biggest, and the best on this continent and a must attend Pride on the world Pride calender ... To Cape Town Pride 2024!!!

For updates please visit: Website: https://cptpride.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capetownpride