Pride Amsterdam or Amsterdam Pride, also known as the Amsterdam Gay Pride, is a citywide queer-festival held annually at the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands during the first weekend of August. The festival attracts several hundred-thousand visitors each year and is one of the largest publicly held annual events in the country.
Pride Amsterdam was first organized in 1996, meant as a festival to celebrate freedom and diversity. It was therefore not like many other Gay Prides, which began as demonstrations for equal rights. The latter purpose served another event, which is called Pink Saturday (Dutch: Roze Zaterdag) since 1979 and is held in a different city each year since 1981.
