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[[File:Blackburn with Darwen UK locator map.svg|thumb|Blackburn with Darwen shown within Lancashire]]'''Blackburn''' is a town in [[Lancashire]]. The borough of Blackburn was renamed '''Blackburn with Darwen''' in 1997, and became a unitary authority the following year.

==LGBT history==

[[Charles Fletcher-Cooke]] was Conservative MP for Darwen 1951-1983.

The [[Blackburn and Burnley CHE Group]] was founded in 1972.

In 1973 [[John Kirby]] was murdered in Corporation Park. [[File:P1230696blackburnGNissue36.jpg|thumb|left|Gay News issue 36 reports on John Kirby's murder]]

There were plans to hold a [[Blackburn Pride]] in 2013.<ref>http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9945501.Blackburn_gay_pride_event_bid/</ref>

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[[Category:Lancashire]]
[[Category:Large towns]]
[[Category:Unitary authorities]]