FAQs

Pride Barcelona

General Information about Pride Barcelona

Pride Barcelona is a community-based project involving 39 associations that are part of its Organising Committee. The project is non-profit, and all activities organised by Pride! Barcelona are free and open to the public.

Pride Barcelona’s main goal is to advocate for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people and to fight against LGBTQIA-phobia. In line with major Pride celebrations in the Western world, Pride Barcelona has chosen celebration and visibility as its primary tools to amplify its message.

Below, we clarify common questions and key facts about the project:

Pride Barcelona is a community-driven project. You can see the entities that form the Organising Committee and the people who hold leadership roles here:
https://www.pridebarcelona.org/en/qui-som/ 

The project is fundamentally based on volunteer work. The main leadership roles, including the President of the Organising Committee and the Director of the Social Area, are voluntary and unpaid. They do not receive any salary or allowances for attending or participating in meetings. Only technical roles and staff hired specifically for the event are paid.

There is no company, public or private, directly involved in organising Pride Barcelona.

No, it is not. It is a shared project with no legal personality of its own. The events are organised by the LGTBIQ+ Chamber of Catalonia, which is a legally registered non-profit association.
As a non-profit initiative, the project receives public subsidies that are audited by independent auditors and by the granting public administrations themselves. If Pride were a for-profit company or if someone were profiting from it, it would not be eligible to receive these subsidies.

The LGTBIQ+ Chamber is the entity entrusted with organising the event. It coordinates the Organising Committee, acting as a kind of technical secretariat for the project, while also taking on the legal and financial risk of the organisation.

Strategic decisions are made in an Assembly, which all entities involved in Pride Barcelona can attend. In these assemblies, the LGTBIQ+ Chamber has only one vote, like any other entity. In this way, all important decisions are made by collective consensus.

No, on the contrary—the LGTBIQ+ Chamber contributes its own resources to the project year after year.
Pride Barcelona has separate accounting from the Chamber’s own finances, including separate bank accounts, which ensures full traceability of all transactions.
As a non-profit entity, any surplus is reinvested into the project itself or into actions that benefit LGBTQIA+ people.
The companies associated with the LGTBIQ+ Chamber do not receive any direct benefit from Pride Barcelona.

Pride Barcelona is a non-profit, free event open to the public. Its funding varies each year. The 2024 edition was funded as follows:

  • 48% from bar sales.
  • 18% from public subsidies.
  • 14% from sponsorships and agreements.
  • 10% from contributions by the LGTBIQ+ Chamber using its own resources.
  • 10% from other sales and concessions.

At Pride Barcelona, we believe companies are important actors in society, and their involvement in supporting the rights of LGBTQIA+ people and helping to eradicate LGBTQIA-phobia is essential.
Furthermore, as previously mentioned, Pride Barcelona is free and open to everyone. To maintain this format, the event requires collaborators who help fund the project.
That said, Pride Barcelona does not accept participation from companies or institutions at any cost. The organisation carefully evaluates each collaboration and demands a commitment to LGBTQIA+ diversity management best practices from its partner companies.
All collaboration agreements include clauses requiring such best practices, as well as clauses allowing the termination of the agreement if any instances of LGBTQIA-phobia or actions contrary to the values of Pride Barcelona are discovered.

No, this is not true. In the case of Airbnb, the company did approach the organisation, but their sponsorship was not accepted, and Pride Barcelona has never received funding from Airbnb.
As for Merlin Properties, MareNostrum, or The Travel Brand, this is also false. We have never had any relationship with these companies.