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Travel : Agenda & events : Amsterdam Pride

Amsterdam Gay Pride
Wednesday Aug 04 till
Sunday Aug 08, 2010
Outdoor streetparties, the canal parade, many big parties to choose from, in other words, don't miss it!

Amsterdam Pride is held the first weekend of August. The usually lovely weather then gives a great combination with the parade, in Amsterdam Saturday on the Canals (Prinsengracht & Amstel), called Canal Pride, and the street parties in the gay areas, as those streets are blocked for traffic on Friday & Saturday.

Sunday closes with an open air closing party in the afternoon/ early evening in front of the Stopera/ City Hall, or visit one of the big indoor parties.

The variety of big dance parties isn't all that, you have the annual white party and, if you're a druggy, Rapido. Specially interesting are the local gay venues, which are really big fun during pride.

The city is packed with gay people from all over the world during this weekend, so happy cruising, or, hold your partner tightly! When strolling the city outside of the gay areas, do use your common sense and avoid too obvious gay behaviour.
more editorial links can be found below

Gay Pride Weekend Specials

Come to Amsterdam to experience The yearly gay pride with the famous canal parade! Our foundation yearly gets you some great discounts for this specially gay event. This means comfortable accomodation at discounts up to 60%, exclusively for Gay Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Pride Find a place to Stay

Relevant Links

Gay Areas to be during the day:

Reguliersdwarsstraat area

Amstel area

Homo monument

See also our editors views:

Gay News (dutch)

Gay News (english)

Het forum

find accomodation

impression of the 2nd canal parade

photographic impressions

media streams Amsterdam Pride

Party Focus

Street parties

On Friday & Saturday streetparties take place in the main gay areas Reguliersdwars & Amstel. Starting around 18:00 hrs, they last till midnight. You will find a stage here with either dj's, performances, and anything gay. At the Amstel it's typical dutch sing-a-long, if you're a tourist make sure not to miss this. Also great and a bit less wellknown yet is the Zeedijk, which is adjacent to the Warmoesstraat area.

At the Homomonument, there are festivities, activities & dj's from Thursday till Sunday, from 15:00 hrs to midnight. You usually find a very relaxed atmosphere here! (Tip).

Dance parties

As to big, indoor parties, there is the every year White Party or Rapido/ reflex, if you're looking for fun though we would pick the streetparties during the day/ evening and the gay venues at night.

After that you can continue till around 10am at Cockring.

Sunday afternoon Rapido, a party concept which started 5 years back, runs at Paradiso. If you like the sun, there's a great pride farewell party at city hall/ stopera. Completing that, you can continue from 22:00 hrs for an after party at Club Exit.

After that, you can continue till around 12am for a Pride Farewell after party at Cockring.

Pride impression reviewed & video

Our editors are out on the streets with video camera's these days, giving you a streaming video feed from their impression. A compilation form the Canal parade and an in-town impression.

Video report Amsterdam Pride

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Agenda Amsterdam Pride - agenda

Note: agenda below based the last edition
Dates & exact activities usually avaialble from around June, but it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect

Pride Thursday 30 Jul 2009

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