Pride

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. 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.

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
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	?	early June
Sheffield Pride	?	early June
Nottinghamshire Pride	?	July
Pride Glasgow	?	July
Leicester Pride	?	?