Roma Pride celebrates 31 years in 2025.
Rome will see a return of the Roma Pride parade through the streets of the Italian capital on Saturday 14 June, with dozens of floats and around 30,000 people expected.
The meeting point is at 14.30 at Piazza della Repubblica from where the parade will make its way past the Colosseum to Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, led by Italian pop star Rose Villain.
The colourful parade celebrating the LGBTQ+ community has the support of the city of Rome and has been organised by gay rights association Mario Mieli every year since the first edition in 1994.
This year’s event is being held under the banner Fuorilegge (which translates into English as “illegal” or “outlawed”), the title of a song performed by Rose Villain at the Sanremo Music Festival and adopted as the anthem of Roma Pride 2025.
“Because the institutions do not recognise us and do not protect us” – Roma Pride organisers say – “And a right denied to one person is a right denied to everyone,” Rose Villain added.
Roma Pride 2025
Domani 14/6 ore 14,30 parte la grande parata da piazza della Repubblica con un percorso che si snoda per le vie del centro per approdare a via delle Terme di Caracalla. Madrina #RoseVillain.
Info https://t.co/0DQs1JZGzc pic.twitter.com/d5n1g3qreC— Roma (@Roma) June 13, 2025
The parade will include floats representing various embassies in the capital, along with one organised by the city’s XI borough and one which Roma Pride organisers have dedicated to the trans community, “the most marginalised”.
The Mario Mieli float takes aim at Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who recently banned the Pride event in his country, while the “Pride X” float of the gay night club Muccassassina pokes fun at Elon Musk’s space race, showing the LGBTQIA+ community as the first to conquer Mars.
Later that night the Rock in Roma music festival will host the official Roma Pride party at the Ippodromo della Capannelle near Ciampino.
The Roma Pride parade will result in road closures and bus detours in the city centre, for traffic details see Roma Mobilità website.
Photo credit: Fabrizio Maffei / Shutterstock.com.
