Gaycation Editorial

Brescia Pride Opens Campo Marte at Noon and Marches at 15:30 on 5 September

The Comitato Brescia Pride holds Brescia Pride on Saturday 5 September 2026 at Campo Marte, the old parade ground northwest of the centre. The committee has now published the timetable for the whole day on its own site.

  • 12:00 to 21:00: the Parco Pride is open on Campo Marte, and it stays open while the parade is out.
  • 14:30 to 15:30: assembly on the field, with speeches and performances.
  • 15:30: the parade leaves Campo Marte, and it is back by about 17:30.
  • 18:00 to 21:00: speeches and performances again on the field.

The line the committee puts on the poster is "Manifestazione e corteo per i diritti LGBTQIA+ e per i diritti di tuttɜ", a demonstration and march for LGBTQIA+ rights and for everyone's rights.

The accessibility plan is published in full

Brescia Pride runs an accessibility page with a Vademecum covering the whole of 5 September, as a Google Doc and as a PDF. It sets out how the Parco Pride is laid out, which parts of the route and which facilities are accessible, and where the quiet zones are. An interactive map marks Campo Marte, the route, the decompression zone in Piazza Vittoria, the accessible toilets with photographs of each, and the drinking fountains.

Fifteen reserved parking spaces in Via Ugo Foscolo have to be booked in advance through a form. The committee has also said what the measures cost, among them 3,900 euro for a stage with a ramp and 500 euro for Italian sign language interpreting, and is asking for donations towards them.

Three days of talks before the march

MO.CA, the Centro per le Nuove Culture at Via Moretto 78, hosts BlaBlaQueer from 1 to 3 September, two talks a day at 16:30 and 18:00. Admission is free and the series has the city's patronage. The subjects are ballroom culture for racialised LGBTQIA+ people, being queer and neurodivergent, being queer and Arab, and what sex education and living outside the norm are worth socially and politically.

Brescia, and the rest of the Italian calendar

In town we list one venue, Sonida The Club. Italy scores 24.11 out of 100 on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map, and our Italy page sets out what that covers.

Savona Pride is on the same day. After that, Brianza Pride in Cologno Monzese is on 12 September, Legnano Pride on 13 September, about 100 kilometres away, and Vercelli Pride on 19 September.

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