Large crowds gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece for a Pride procession through the city centre on Saturday (September 25).

Pride Thessaloniki Greece is back with great participation after last year’s cancellation due to pandemic. With the main slogan "what regularity?" The events of the Thessaloniki Pride take place this year, inviting people to ask themselves “what normalcy do we want to return to?

With drums, chariots, colorful flags and dancing, crowds flooded the streets in the center of Thessaloniki as part of the 9th Thessaloniki Pride events that culminate in a procession of pride. The great procession of pride started on Saturday afternoon in Thessaloniki, thousands of people from both the LOATKI + community and collectives that support the institution participate this year as well. Holding multi-colored flags, banners and with the central slogan "What regularity", the march moved to the city center.
"After the global experience of restrictive measures, but also the incidents of gender-based abuse and violence that shocked Greek society, the 9th Thessaloniki Pride with the slogan" what regularity? " invites us to ask ourselves what normality do we want to return to? In the one where the LOATKI + people lived in a constant "quarantine" being free to express themselves only on the four walls of our house? Or to the one where the patriarchy armed the hand of every murderer and rapist, reproducing the perception that women are their property? "After all, instead of returning to a normality that rejects all diversity, should we build a new and inclusive future together?", said the organizers.