The 2024 edition of Pride Amsterdam will focus on connecting people with the theme TOGETHER. “Don’t look away and polarize, but talk to each other and learn from each other’s differences. That’s what Pride is all about next year and why the visibility of our LGBTQA+ community has never been more necessary than it is now,” Lucien Spee de Castillo Ruiz, executive director of Pride Amsterdam, said on Tuesday.
m Valeria Yezhova, an 11-year-old Ukrainian and a world checkers champion, is raising money for her country s soldiers with each double jump and every piece that gets kinged as she plays on the streets of Kyiv in exchange for donations.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Amsterdam's historic canals Saturday to celebrate Canal Parade, a Pride flotilla of 80 brightly decorated boats packed with people partying, singing and waving rainbow flags, balloons and umbrellas.