Find All Flags Tour (Saturday July 25 – Sunday August 2)
As an alternative to the Pride Walk, you can walk independently from the Homomonument at the Westerkerk. The 5 km route takes you past all kinds of places in Amsterdam that are important for the LGBT + community. Along the 5-kilometer route, QR codes will explain the stories behind each location.
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Supernature Serving Pride (Saturday August 1)
Queer community Supernature presents a special Pride party in the courtyard of Lofi. Music, art, performances, food, and inclusivity all come together during this festivity.
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Roze Filmdagen Redux (first screening Saturday July 25)
The ‘Roze Filmdagen’ (pink film days) have been a constact factor in the Amsterdam gay and lesbian scene since 1996. The LGBTQ-film festival normally takes place in March at the Westergas and Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. This “catch-up festival” will be smaller and different than usual, but that doesn’t mean the movie selections are less interesting.
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Queer The Stage (Wednesday July 29 & Thursday July 30)
What happens if you let go of the fixed, traditional roles in classical theatrical literature? With this question in mind, a collective of queer theatre-makers started to work on a performance. For their first project, they made an adaptation of “The Gull” by Anton Chekhov.
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Online Pride in Oost (Wednesday July 29)
Every year the diversity of Amsterdam East is being celebrated with a Pride event on Java Square. This year the physical event is canceled because of COVID-19, so it will take place online via Youtube. Expect a varied programma with performances by local talents and the opportunity to meet special local residents and organizations.
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Black Pride NL Protest (Saturday July 25)
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests around the world, Black Queer and Trans Resistance NL organizes a protest against the marginalization, stigmatization, and criminalization of (black) queer and transsexual people.
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IDFA Pride Special: Welcome to Chechnya (Wednesday August 5)
In light of Pride, IDFA presents one of the most discussed documentaries of the year. ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ tells the distressing stories of LGBTQ+ people in the ultra-conservative Russian republic of Chechnya. You follow a group of Russian activists who take an unimaginably high risk of smuggling persecuted LGBTQ+ people out of the country with the help of an international network.
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