Birmingham Pride

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Birmingham Pride is a weekend-long LGBTQ+ festival held annually in the Gay Village, Hurst Street, Birmingham, England, over the spring bank holiday weekend.^[1] Birmingham Pride is the UK's largest two-day gay pride festival.^[2]

It usually features a carnival parade through the city centre, plus dance and musical events, funfair rides, a temporary village green, and street stalls and entertainments.

History

The first Birmingham Gay Pride Weekend took place on 8–9 July 1977, one week after the first London Gay Pride Week, itself the first Gay Pride Rally to take place outside the United States.^[3] Although "hastily arranged and not very well conceived", the Birmingham event featured dances, two "Gay Days" in Cannon Hill Park and a march up New Street from the Bull Ring, culminating in a small rally on the steps of Birmingham Town Hall. According to one of its organisers "Our aim was to announce ourselves and let Birmingham know gay people were here: 'Here we are and here we'll stay'"^[4] Two or three further such events were organised by Birmingham Gay Liberation Front until the organisation declined in the mid 1970s.^[5]

Annual gay festivals in Birmingham resumed in 1983 with the first "Five Days of Fun", originally known as "Gay Brum".^[6] Unlike the 1970s Pride weekends and the earlier "Gay Days", Five Days of Fun was not intended as a political statement but as a social event and celebration. Daytime and evening events took place throughout the city's main gay bars and clubs in the Gay Village – culminating in an It's a Knockout competition between teams of the venues' staff, held in the garden/swimming pool at The Grosvenor House Hotel, Hagley Road, Edgbaston.^[7]

See also

• List of LGBT events

References

Bibliography

• Knowles, Jeremy (2009), An Investigation into the Relationship Between Gay Activism and the Establishment of a Gay Community in Birmingham, 1967-97 (PDF), Birmingham: University of Birmingham, retrieved 30 May 2011

External links

• Birmingham Pride Official Site
• Birmingham Pride 2009 - BBC Birmingham, May 2009
• Views on Birmingham Pride - BBC Birmingham, 2008
• Pride - The Real Rainbow - BBC Birmingham, 2005
• Birmingham's Gay Village - BBC Birmingham
• The Gay Directory - Birmingham Pride

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