Europe celebrates LGBTQ Pride with colourful parades

European cities celebrated LGBTQ pride on Saturday with colorful parades. (Photo: AP/Manu Fernandez)

A participant of the Christopher Street Day (CSD) Parade marches as the famous painting 'The Scream' in the streets of Cologne, Germany (Photo: AP/Martin Meissner)

This year's gay parade of the Cologne Pride festival with an estimated million spectators marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising in New York. (Photo: AP/Martin Meissner)

Flags are displayed along a bridge near the Hotel Bristol during the Pride March LGBTQ in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: AP/Martial Trezzini)

A person in rainbow colored eye makeup participates in the Pride March LGBTQ in Geneva. (Photo: AP/Martial Trezzini)

Couples kiss during a flash mob prior to the 24th Budapest Pride in the Hungarian capital. (Photo: AP/Zsolt Szigetvary)

Participants of the annual LGBTQ pride parade gather at the Cibeles square with the fountain decorated with the colors of the rainbow in Madrid, Spain. (Photo: AP/Manu Fernandez)

Participants of the annual LGBTQ pride parade carry the rainbow flag in Madrid, Spain. (Photo: AP/Manu Fernandez)