Rainbow festival

The Rainbow Festival Haarlemmermeer, will you be there? Do you also think it's important that everyone can be themselves? That you are accepted as you are? At home, on the street, at school, at work and at the sports club? Then come to the first Rainbow Festival Haarlemmermeer on Saturday 15 October. Everyone is welcome!

A Pride Walk with flag parade starts at 15.00 p.m. from the Rainbow Path. Here residents walk along with organizations, sports clubs, youth council, associations, school classes and so on. The route runs through the shopping center to C. (formerly: the Cultuurgebouw). All kinds of activities will take place there from 16.00 p.m., including a Rainbow information market, Chill Out youth, a talk show about safety and acceptance, the Pink Rainbow Café 55+ and of course a large musical party.

The Rainbow Festival is organized by various rainbow partners together with residents of Haarlemmermeer. Collaborating organizations include: C., Amstelring, Team Sportservice, Kennemerland Discrimination Affairs Bureau, Kennemerland COC, MeerValue/MENES, Maatvast, Youth Information Point JIP, Police, Center for Sexual Health

Why this festival?

The municipality of Haarlemmermeer has been a Rainbow municipality since 2019. Traditionally, on international Coming Out Day on 11 October, the rainbow flag flies high in the flagpole in many places and all kinds of activities are organized around LGBTI+ acceptance. With the Rainbow Festival, residents and involved organizations in Haarlemmermeer clearly show that they support a society in which everyone can be themselves regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. They target all citizens.

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