Editing Pride parade (section)

====South Africa====
[[File:Lesbian Angels.jpg|thumb|right|Women marching in Joburg Pride parade in 2006]]
{{main|Pride parades in South Africa}}
{{see also|List of LGBT events#South Africa}}
The first South African pride parade was held towards the end of the [[apartheid]] era in [[Johannesburg]] on October 13, 1990, the first such event on the African continent. [[Section Nine of the Constitution of South Africa|Section Nine]] of the country's [[constitution of South Africa|1996 constitution]] provides for [[equality before the law|equality]] and [[freedom from discrimination]] on the grounds of sexual orientation among other factors.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=de Waal|editor1-first=Shaun|editor2-last=Manion|editor2-first=Anthony|title=Pride: Protest and Celebration|date=2006|publisher=Jacana Media|isbn=9781770092617|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdNz05DF6JcC|pages=4–6, 37|access-date=July 22, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Joburg Pride rocked by divisions|url=http://www.news24.com/Travel/South-Africa/Joburg-Pride-rocked-by-divisions-20130620|access-date=July 23, 2014|work=News24|date=June 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723065018/http://www.news24.com/Travel/South-Africa/Joburg-Pride-rocked-by-divisions-20130620|archive-date=July 23, 2014}}</ref> The Joburg Pride organizing body disbanded in 2013 due to internal conflict about whether the event should continue to be used for political advocacy. A new committee was formed in May 2013 to organize a "People's Pride", which was "envisioned as an inclusive and explicitly political movement for social justice".<ref>{{cite press release|title=SA: Statement by the Peoples Pride Organising Committee, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, and queer organisation, on new Committee to organise People's Pride Johannesburg (20/05/2013)|url=http://www.polity.org.za/article/sa-statement-by-the-peoples-pride-organising-committee-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-intersex-asexual-and-queer-organisation-on-new-committee-to-organise-peoples-pride-johannesburg-20052013-2013-05-20|access-date=July 23, 2014|work=Polity|date=May 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723073659/http://www.polity.org.za/article/sa-statement-by-the-peoples-pride-organising-committee-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-intersex-asexual-and-queer-organisation-on-new-committee-to-organise-peoples-pride-johannesburg-20052013-2013-05-20|archive-date=July 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Du |first1=Susan |title=Two gay pride parades for Joburg this year |url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/two-gay-pride-parades-for-joburg-this-year-1.1534409#.U89b6eOSyyh |access-date=July 23, 2014 |work=The Star |date=June 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728172407/http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/two-gay-pride-parades-for-joburg-this-year-1.1534409 |archive-date=July 28, 2014 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Strudwick|first1=Patrick|title=Crisis in South Africa: The shocking practice of 'corrective rape' – aimed at 'curing' lesbians|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/crisis-in-south-africa-the-shocking-practice-of-corrective-rape--aimed-at-curing-lesbians-9033224.html|access-date=July 23, 2014|work=The Independent|date=January 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701182154/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/crisis-in-south-africa-the-shocking-practice-of-corrective-rape--aimed-at-curing-lesbians-9033224.html|archive-date=July 1, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Other pride parades held in the Johannesburg area include Soweto Pride which takes place annually in [[Meadowlands, Gauteng|Meadowlands]], Soweto, and Ekurhuleni Pride which takes place annually in [[KwaThema]], a township on the [[East Rand]]. Pride parades held in other South African cities include the [[Cape Town Pride]] parade and Khumbu Lani Pride in [[Cape Town]], Durban Pride in [[Durban]], and Nelson Mandela Bay Pride in [[Port Elizabeth]]. Limpopo Pride is held in [[Polokwane]], Limpopo.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}