Pride

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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 / townYears operatingTime of year
London Pride (held in Huddersfield in 1981)1972 onwardsLate June / early July
Belfast Pride1990 onwardsJuly
Brighton Pride1991 onwardsAugust (2012 1st September)
Croydon Pride1993 onlyJune
Manchester Pride1996 onwardsAugust
Oxford Pride2002 onwardsJune
Soho Pride2004–?August
Bourne Free (Bournemouth)2004 onwardsJuly
UK Black Pride2005 onwardsAugust
Leeds Pride2006 onwardsAugust
Bradford Pride2009 onwardsMay
Exeter Pride2009 onwardsAugust
Scarborough Pride2009 onwardsSeptember
Liverpool Pride2010 onwardsAugust
East London Pride2011 onlySeptember
Herefordshire Pride2012 onwardsAugust
Totnes Pride2013 (planned)August
Sheffield Pride?earky June
Nottinghamshire Pride?July
Pride Glasgow?July
Leicester Pride??

References

  1. Out of the Shadows, P61.
  2. http://pinkuk.com/events/ Pink UK: List of Gay prides and events in the UK