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Revision as of 08:11, 25 May 2013
Pride, in the LGBT context, refers to events such as marches, parades, and festivals celebrating the fact that LGBT people are now proclaiming themselves as proud to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, rather than, as in previous generations, being ashamed or attempting to hide it. A measure of the success of this movement is that festivals in various towns and cities across the UK can now just call themselves "Brighton Pride" and so on, without needing to spell out in the title that they are gay or LGBT events.
The first Gay Pride March in London was on the 1st of July 1972 and was organised by GLF. The date was chosen to be the nearest Saturday to the Stonewall riots of 1969.[1] There had been a small march the previous year, but it had not called itself a Pride march.
Pride festivals have grown across the UK and now take place in about fifty towns and cities each year.[2]
List of Prides
This is a very incomplete list: your help is needed to complete it.
| Name / town | Years operating | Time of year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Pride (held in Huddersfield in 1981) | 1972 onwards | Late June / early July | |
| Belfast Pride | 1990 onwards | July | |
| Brighton Pride | 1991 onwards | August (2012 1st September) | |
| Croydon Pride | 1993 only | June | |
| Pride Scotia (Edinburgh) | 1994 onwards | June | |
| Manchester Pride | 1996 onwards | August | |
| Oxford Pride | 2002 onwards | June | |
| Soho Pride | 2004–? | August | |
| Essex Pride (Chelmsford) | 2004 onwards | June | |
| Bourne Free (Bournemouth) | 2004 onwards | July | |
| UK Black Pride | 2005 onwards | August | |
| Leeds Pride | 2006 onwards | August | |
| York Pride | 2007 onwards | June | |
| Calderdale Pride | 2009–2012 | May | |
| Bradford Pride | 2009 onwards | May | |
| Exeter Pride | 2009 onwards | August | |
| Scarborough Pride | 2009 onwards | September | |
| Liverpool Pride | 2010 onwards | August | |
| East London Pride | 2011 only | September | |
| Wolverhampton and Black Country Pride | 2012 onwards | July | |
| Herefordshire Pride | 2012 onwards | August | |
| Milton Keynes Pride | 2012 onwards | August | |
| Totnes Pride | 2013 (planned) | August | |
| Newcastle Pride | ? | June | |
| Sheffield Pride | ? | June | |
| Swansea Pride | ? | June | |
| Nottinghamshire Pride | ? | July | |
| Pride Glasgow | ? | July | |
| Leicester Pride | ? | ? | |
| Newport Pride | ? | ? |
References
- ↑ Out of the Shadows, P61.
- ↑ http://pinkuk.com/events/ Pink UK: List of Gay prides and events in the UK
