The first participants arrived around and thousands more arrived roughly within the next hour to attend the event. The parade was accompanied by music, dancing, cheering and applause and many passers-by stopped to watch it. Police estimate as many as 60, people participated in the march. Their estimate of 30, people at the start of the event increased after more groups joined the parade at different points as it moved through the city.
The parade traveled from Wenceslas Square through the Old Town Square, where tourists photographed the participants. Such flags were once used as a pacifist symbol, but during the s they became perceived as a gay and lesbian symbol that then became universal.
In the decades since, the rainbow flag has established itself as a generally-known, accepted symbol of the LGBT movement. Many marchers in Prague yesterday were wearing flower garlands around their necks in the colors of the rainbow, as well as carrying paper flowers or balloons, and some people came in costume. The march was attended by people of different generations, including parents with their children.
At the Charles University Faculty of Law, which provided a balcony to the organizers from which people could greet the parade and observe it, other participants joined the march. This year the rainbow parade did not feature floats, a decision organizers said was taken to make the event sustainable. The marchers did not respond to those protesting against them. Yesterday was the first time the parade had been held since after a two-year hiatus because of the COVID pandemic.
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