Westminster Council and Met Police sting London Pride organisers with huge bills as the Pride Parade in London is strangled with bureaucratic restrictions. Peter Tatchell says todays London Pride parade will be one of the smallest in the western world, alleging red tape is strangling the event.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales on July 27, Brighton & Hove Pride continues with it’s commitment to campaigning for global equality. The 2017 Brighton Pride Community Parade will continue to highlight the struggles of those across the UK and beyond featuring placards highlighting hate crimes from the past twelve months in the U.K. and aboard.
Have you always wanted to march on the Brighton Pride parade, but never had the opportunity? Join the Martin Fisher Foundation (MFF) on the Pride Parade on August 6 and march with conviction TOWARDS ZERO HIV.
The annual Pride Community Parade, the biggest and most colourful visual event in the city’s calendar brings more than 200,000 people onto the streets to watch the spectacle in all its outrageous colour. Reflecting Pride’s on-going commitment to campaigning for global LGBT+ rights, the campaigning theme for 2016 is Uniting Nations.
No Pride parade is complete without the people. This year the crowd excelled themselves and brought an extra dimension to the days entertainment with extravagant and imaginative costumes.
Katy Bourne the Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner will join police officers on the Brighton Pride Community Parade this, Saturday, August 1. The theme of this years parade is Carnival of Diversity. It will start from the Peace Statue on Hove Lawns at 11am progressing along the seafront past the old West Pier, turning left up West Street, turning right at the clock then left at Old Steine and out on the London Road to Preston Park for the main event.
David Raven aka Maisie Trollette has been named as Brighton Pride’s first Ambassador for 2015 and will lead the Pride LGBT+ Community Parade in August. David received 420 nominations, 80% of the total nominations cast in the first round of voting.
Do you want to be an exotic participant in the Brighton Pride Parade? Now is your chance to find your inner ANIMAL and get involved, courtesy of a new project by andwhatarts and costumier extraordinaire Mandinga Arts. Proud Interventions funded by Arts Council England is a stylised costume based processional work that will be brought to life by YOU, – gay, straight, lesbian, trans, or bi, because this is a work about community.
