DUBLIN LGBTQ+ PRIDE 2026 THEME ANNOUNCEMENT: “ONE STORY – MANY VOICES”

Do you remember your first Pride?

If you are young, perhaps it was a celebration on a grand scale. The city comes alive with colour, noise and joy. Streets closed, crowds swelling, glitter catching the light, a sense of being part of something vast and visible, undeniable and unashamed. It breaks something inside you. There’s a moment where the feeling lands: you are not alone. That feeling stays with you.

Of course, it wasn’t always like this. Some of us remember a different Pride. Smaller. Quieter. Making our way through the city with a little more caution, a little less certainty. For many people, across Ireland and around the world, that reality hasn’t changed. Even so, there is always that same, unmistakable truth. We are not alone. This is why this year’s theme matters.

“One Story – Many Voices” is about the thread that connects us across time, across borders, across very different lived experiences. We share a story that shifts with the narrator, and while no single voice can represent us all, every voice counts.

Our community has never been just one thing. It is shaped by different identities and histories, by many ways of moving through the world: through race, gender, trans and non-binary experience, culture, faith, migration, through all the ways a life can be lived openly, or carefully, or somewhere in between.

Some stories are loud and luminous. Some are quieter, hard-won, still unfolding. Some are celebrated. Some are still fighting to be heard. All of them matter.

This theme is not about flattening those differences into a single narrative. It’s about holding them together and recognising that what connects us is not sameness, but solidarity. That we can stand alongside one another without needing our experiences to be identical.

We stand on stories that came before us, and alongside those still being written. Pride has always been about visibility, but visibility is not a single spotlight. It’s a constellation, brightened by every voice that joins it, strengthened by every story that’s told. However you show up, in full colour, in quiet courage, in celebration, in defiance, in reflection or in joy, you are part of it.

Your voice matters. Our story matters. Together, we create something none of us could hold alone. 

One Story. Many Voices.

The Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride Festival takes place from June 24th – 28th, The Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride March and Parade takes place on Saturday June 27th.

FÓGRA THÉAMA BRÓD LADTA+ ÁTHA CLIATH 2026: “SCÉAL AMHÁIN – GO LEOR GUTHANNA”

An cuimhin leat do chéad Bhród?

Má tá tú óg, b’fhéidir gur ceiliúradh ar mhórscála a bhí ann. Tagann an chathair beo le dath, torann agus áthas. Sráideanna dúnta, sluaite ag méadú, gliotar ag lonrú sa solas — mothú go bhfuil tú mar chuid de rud éigin mór, infheicthe, doshéanta agus gan náire. Briseann sé rud éigin ionat. Tagann nóiméad ina dtuigeann tú é: níl tú i d’aonar. Fanann an mothú sin leat.

Ar ndóigh, ní mar seo a bhí sé i gcónaí. Tá cuimhne ag cuid againn ar Bhród eile. Níos lú. Níos ciúine. Ag déanamh ár mbealaigh tríd an gcathair le beagán níos mó cúraim, beagán níos lú cinnteachta. Do go leor daoine, anseo in Éirinn agus ar fud an domhain, níor athraigh an réaltacht sin. Mar sin féin, bíonn an fhírinne chéanna ann i gcónaí, soiléir gan dabht: níl muid inár n-aonar. Sin é an fáth go bhfuil téama na bliana seo tábhachtach.

Tá “Scéal Amháin – Go Leor Guthanna” faoin snáithe a nascann sinn thar am, thar theorainneacha, agus thar eispéiris saoil atá an-éagsúil. Roinnimid scéal a athraíonn leis an té a insíonn é, agus cé nach féidir le guth amháin sinn ar fad a léiriú, tá gach guth tábhachtach.

Ní raibh ár bpobal riamh ina aon rud amháin. Múnlaítear é ag féiniúlachtaí agus stairí éagsúla, agus ag na bealaí iomadúla ina mairimid ár saol: trí chine, trí inscne, trí thaithí thrasinscneach agus neamh-dhénártha, trí chultúr, trí chreideamh, trí imirce — trí na bealaí go léir is féidir saol a chaitheamh go hoscailte, go cúramach, nó áit éigin eatarthu.

Tá roinnt scéalta glórach agus lonrach. Tá cuid eile níos ciúine, buaite le dua, fós ag forbairt. Déantar ceiliúradh ar chuid acu. Tá cuid eile fós ag troid le cloisteáil. Tá siad uile tábhachtach.

Ní bhaineann an téama seo le difríochtaí a leá isteach i scéal amháin. Baineann sé le iad a choinneáil le chéile agus a aithint nach ionann an rud a nascann sinn agus comhionannas, ach dlúthpháirtíocht. Gur féidir linn seasamh le chéile gan ár dtaithí a bheith mar an gcéanna.

Seasaimid ar na scéalta a tháinig romhainn, agus leis na scéalta atá fós á scríobh. Bhí Bród i gcónaí faoi infheictheacht, ach ní aon spotsolas amháin í an infheictheacht. Is réaltbhuíon í, níos gile le gach guth a chuireann leis, níos láidre le gach scéal a insítear.

Pé mar a thagann tú chun cinn — i lán dathanna, le misneach ciúin, le ceiliúradh, le dúshlán, le machnamh nó le háthas — is cuid de é tú.

Tá do ghuth tábhachtach. Tá ár scéal tábhachtach. Le chéile, cruthaímid rud nach bhféadfadh aon duine againn a shealbhú ina aonar.

Scéal Amháin. Go leor guthanna.

Reáchtáiltear Féile Bhróid LADTA+ Átha Cliath ón 24 go dtí an 28 Meitheamh. Beidh Mórshiúl agus Paráid Bhróid LADTA+ Átha Cliath ar siúl Dé Sathairn, an 27 Meitheamh.

2025 marks another milestone anniversary year. Ten years since we won marriage equality by popular vote. Ten years since the Gender Recognition Act. Ten years since the Children and Family Relationships Act.

These fundamental freedoms that some take for granted were hard won for our community. Liberties, not granted, but taken. As the civil rights activist Philip Randolph said “Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

We look back at the liberties we have taken, not just to celebrate them, but to remind ourselves how hard we fought to take them, and how hard we must be willing to fight to stop anyone taking those liberties away.

At a time when the liberties of our trans, non-binary and intersex family are being threatened and taken away, when Pride marches are being banned, and words like diversity, equity and inclusion are being demonised, we remind ourselves that at the root of Pride is liberty. Long before we were called Pride, we were called Liberation Day. The first Dublin Pride march in 1974 was organised by the Sexual Liberation Movement. We even start our march on the street named after ‘The Liberator’, Daniel O’Connell, whose 250th birthday falls this summer.

Taking liberties is what we do and will continue to do. We invite you to join us this June as we march in solidarity with our entire global LGBTQ+ family and send a clear message to the world: The liberties we have taken will not be taken back.

Our Grand Marshall was Ruadhán Ó Criodáin, Executive Director of Shout Out.