Nicosia Pride 2027

Nicosia's Pride is called Cyprus Pride and is organised by Accept LGBTI Cyprus, the queer advocacy group based in the capital. Accept was the first organised voice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in the Republic of Cyprus and has campaigned for legal equality and social acceptance ever since. The march has been held every year since its first edition, usually in late May or early June.

The focal point is the Nicosia Municipal Garden at the edge of the old town. The day starts there in the afternoon with speeches, then the parade loops through the city centre and returns to the garden for a festival that goes on into the evening. Around the march, a festival of several weeks brings parties, drag nights, talks and smaller community events.

Nicosia is a divided city, and that shapes its Pride as well. In the northern part, the Turkish Cypriot group Queer Cyprus, also known as Kuir Kıbrıs, held the island's first Pride march two weeks before Accept's first parade in the south. The two organisations now run the Cyprus Pride Festival together, and the European Parliament gave them its European Citizen's Prize for this joint work.

There is also United by Pride, a grassroots, island-wide event organised without sponsors. Two marches set off at the same time, one from Eleftheria Square in the south and one in the north, and meet at the Home for Cooperation inside the buffer zone.