Editing Pride parade (section)

===Oceania===

====Australia====
[[File:Sydney Mardi Gras 2006.jpg|thumb|Sydney's pride parade, [[Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras]], is one of the world's largest and is held at night]]
Australia's first pride marches were held during a national Gay Pride Week in September 1973 organised by gay liberation groups in Sydney,<ref name="gaypridesyd">{{cite web |url=http://www.takver.com/history/sydney/gay_pride1973.htm |title=Gay Pride 1973 - Gay Liberation hits the streets of Sydney|access-date=2019-04-02 |date=April 2, 2019 }}</ref><ref name="gayprideweek">{{cite web |author=Marcus Bunyan |url=https://artblart.com/2014/07/25/exhibition-out-of-the-closets-into-the-streets-gay-liberation-photography-1971-73-at-edmund-pearce-gallery-melbourne-video/ |title=Exhibition: 'Out of the closets, into the streets: gay liberation photography 1971-73' at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne |date=25 July 2014 |website=Art Blart |access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> Melbourne,<ref name="gayprideweek"/> Adelaide,<ref name="gayprideweek"/> and Brisbane.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

The [[Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras]] is the largest Australian pride event and one of the largest in the world.<ref name="abc2009">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/08/2510295.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310083113/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/08/2510295.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 10, 2009 |title=Economic woes fail to rain on Mardi Gras parade |access-date=2009-06-17 |date=March 9, 2009 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] }}</ref> The inaugural event was held on 24 June 1978, and was organised by the Gay Solidarity Group and was intended to be a street festival, one of three events as part of a Day of International Gay Solidarity, produced in response to a call from the organisers of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day, and highlighting local gay and lesbian rights issues. Following a police riot and assault at the end of the street festival, 53 were arrested; with over 120 more arrested at subsequent protests. The then Sydney Gay Mardi Gras subsequently became an annual event from 1979. The parade is held at night with ≈12,000 participants on and around elaborate floats.<ref name="abc2009"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mardigras.org.au/internal.cfm?sub=Parade&nav=Mardi%20Gras%202009 |title=Mardi Gras 2009 Parade |work=New Mardi Gras |publisher=mardigras.org.au |access-date=2009-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607201208/http://mardigras.org.au/internal.cfm?sub=Parade&nav=Mardi%20Gras%202009 |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Brisbane's Pride March began in July 1990,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexander |first=David |date=2015-09-21 |title=Brisbane Pride Festival rally, parade and Fair Day makes history, achieves crowd attendance record |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/queensland-news/brisbane-pride-festival-rally-parade-and-fair-day-makes-history-achieves-crowd-attendence-record/140968 |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Star Observer |language=en-US}}</ref> and is organised by Brisbane Pride. The March kicks off the [[Brisbane Pride Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-27 |title=Queensland |url=https://australianpridenetwork.com.au/lgbtiq-festivals/queensland/ |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Australian Pride Network |language=en-US}}</ref>

Perth's Pride March was established in October 1990, by the newly formed WA Pride Collective (now WA Pride).<ref name="wapride">{{cite web |url=http://www.pridewa.com.au/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010082620/http://www.pridewa.com.au/|archive-date=October 10, 2012|title=WA Pride |access-date=2019-04-02 |date=April 2, 2019 }}</ref>

Melbourne's Pride March, now part of the [[Midsumma Festival]] (1989–), was established in 1996.<ref name="midsumma">{{cite web |url=http://midsumma.org.au/midsumma-history |title=Midsumma History |access-date=2019-04-02 |date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402002919/http://midsumma.org.au/midsumma-history |archive-date=April 2, 2019 }}</ref>  The event sees over 5000 participating in the Parade, and 20,000 lining Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Adelaide's Pride March was established in 2003,<ref name="pridemarchadl">{{cite web |url=http://www.prideadelaide.org/history.html |title=Pride March Adelaide - History |access-date=2019-04-02 |date=April 2, 2019 |archive-date=September 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902041815/http://prideadelaide.org/history.html }}</ref> on the anniversary of their first Pride March in 1973. Since then, the Adelaide Pride March has opened the annual [[Feast Festival]].

====New Zealand====

Auckland's City [[Auckland Pride Festival]] holds its Pride March in February every year.<ref name="aklpride">{{cite web |url=https://www.aucklandpridefestival.org.nz/ |title=Auckland Pride Festival |publisher=aucklandpridefestival.org.nz |access-date=2017-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322014044/https://aucklandpridefestival.org.nz/ |archive-date=March 22, 2017 }}</ref> In 2018,  [[Jacinda Ardern]] became the first sitting New Zealand Prime Minister to walk in the Auckland Pride Parade.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/jacinda-ardern-becomes-first-prime-minister-walk-in-pride-parade|title=Jacinda Ardern becomes the first prime minister to walk in a Pride Parade|date=15 February 2018|newspaper=TVNZ}}</ref>

In March, Wellington also holds a pride parade during the Wellington Pride Festival.<ref name="wgnpride">{{cite web |url=https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.org.nz/ |title=Wellington Pride Festival |publisher=wellingtonpridefestival.org.nz |access-date=2017-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321170227/https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.org.nz/ |archive-date=March 21, 2017 }}</ref>

At Labour Weekend, October, Paekakariki holds its Pride Festival, A Rainbow in the Village, every year. It holds the unofficial title of having the World's Shortest Pride Parade.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/97718432/paekkriki-about-to-get-its-queer-on-with-worlds-shortest-gay-pride-parade|title = Paekākāriki about to get its queer on with 'world's shortest' gay pride parade|newspaper = Stuff|date = October 10, 2017}}</ref>

Christchurch holds an annual Pride Festival and parade.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gibbs |first=Tatiana |date=2022-06-17 |title='Celebrating who we are': Vibrant frocks and rainbow flags on show as Pride Week kicks off |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/129009036/celebrating-who-we-are-vibrant-frocks-and-rainbow-flags-on-show-as-pride-week-kicks-off |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=Stuff |language=en}}</ref>