People march in celebration of LGBTQ+ rights at the annual Pride Parade in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 28, 2023. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 20,000 people marched through Johannesburg on Saturday to celebrate Pride, singing, dancing and making their support clear for LGBTQ+ communities across Africa who cannot be open safely and whose relationships are criminalised.
At the front of a parade that organisers estimated was 24,000-strong was Mandela Swali, a 25-year-old Ugandan gay man who was attending his first Pride, having been in South Africa just a month-and-a-half.
