Tens of thousands of visitors have gathered in Brighton and Hove for the city's 20th Pride festival.
Police at Brighton and Hove's Pride festival have defended their tactics after complaints they had "kettled" people taking part in the parade.
The Gay Pride festival is thought to be Europe's biggest gay festival.
Torbay, widely known as a genteel Devon resort with its palm-fringed promenades and sandy coves, held its second gay pride festival in June, with about 2, 200 people attending over a weekend.
Pride of place in the festival is Lord Muruga's silver chariot, which makes its way from the Sri Mahamariamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown to the caves.
The festival is a source of pride and belonging that enhances the self-esteem of the city and its people and constitutes a fundamental contribution to their local identity.
It was the highlight of the WOMEX festival, which reminded me how the best art can assert cultural pride while promoting cross-cultural unity.
Swedes pride themselves on their closeness to nature and the ideal elements of a Midsummer festival include being with friends in a remote spot, singing, and eating and drinking a lot.
The city's annual summer festivals are not limited solely to the Bare Buns Run, and include Pride Week (early August), western Canada's largest gay pride parade, MusicFest Vancouver (two weeks early August), an international music festival that hosts a free city-centre outdoor stage, and the Bard on the Beach festival (June-September), which sees the work of Shakespeare performed beside the water in a cheerful series of red-and-white circus tents.
We also take a great deal of pride in sponsoring an event in our own backyard, the Xerox Rochester Inte rnational Jazz Festival.
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