Some 50,000 people walked in the parade itself, including all party leaders apart from the Christian Democrats' Ebba Busch and the Sweden Democrats' Jimmie Åkesson. The far-right Sweden Democrats have not been welcome at the parade since 2014. Busch has walked in the parade on previous occasions but her team said she was unavailable this year and was instead spending time with her family.
"By participating in the Pride Parade, the government wants to acknowledge the parade's importance to our open society, everybody's right to live as they are, and love who they want to," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate Party said in a press statement.
Stockholm Pride has been organised every year since 1998 and is the biggest Pride festival in the Nordics.
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