2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• GAY PRI EVENTS UNED KGDOM
• MANCHTER PRI 2022: FULL PROGRAMME, GAY VILLAGE PARTY & SUPERBIA LE-UP ANNOUNCED PL TICKET RMATN

GAY PRI CALENDAR

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Pri march the UK, GAY TIMES has partnered wh Channel 4 on the mpaign #ProudAllOver, a digal road trip that vers LGBTQ+ stori at regnal Pri events om across the UK.

GAY PRI EVENTS UNED KGDOM

ACTS: ABBA Gold, Shaz Mart, Alfie Ordary, Actually Gay Men’s Chos, Son of a Tutu, Smashby, Kyle Kristopher, Bille Gold, Vol Repertoire, DJ Woody Cook, Earthquake Dmmers, Lda Bardi.

On 28 June, 1969 police raid the Stonewall Inn – a gay club Greenwich Village New York rulted bar staff, patrons and other lols rtg the streets, llg for safe spac for LGBTQ+ people to exprs their sexualy whout by black trans bisexual woman Marsha P Johnson, there were six straight days of followg year, bisexual activist Brenda Howard Gay Pri Week and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para. Media ptn, Watch: 'What a tone' - Pri's 50th anniversary LondonMore than a ln people have taken part the 50th anniversary of the UK's first Pri para London.Hundreds of LGBTQ+ muny groups attend the march om Hy Park Corner to Whehall Palace earlier.Revellers wearg face pat, glter, jewels and sequs joed the celebratns as Pri returned for the first time sce the Covid-19 panmic.The event, hailed as the most clive history, clud performanc om Ava Max and Emeli San.The para paid homage to the origal 1972 march, anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), and saw revellers pass signifint s om the UK's LGBTQ+ movement.Floats led Park Lane ahead of the ma march through the pal, which was led by GLF activists holdg plards readg "I was there 1972".Organisers scribed the 2022 event as the " biggt and most clive event history." Pri London spokperson Haven Thorn said: "It's the return of Pri after a two year Covid duced hiat, so there's so much pent up mand and energy this year.

MANCHTER PRI 2022: FULL PROGRAMME, GAY VILLAGE PARTY & SUPERBIA LE-UP ANNOUNCED PL TICKET RMATN

"We were expectg rerd numbers of people - 1.5 ln LGBT travellers to e to the pal and celebrate."Image source, EPAImage ptn, Thoands gathered Trafalgar Square to celebrateImage source, RtersImage ptn, The para paid homage to the 1972 march, passg signifint s om the UK's first LGBTQ+ movementIn Trafalgar Square, Dame Kelly Holm told the crowd she would "never live behd that curta aga" after g out as gay last month."For 34 years I have never been able to say those words until two weeks ago, due to the fear of judgement and retributn that was stilled me sce the age of 18 bee the laws the ary and beg the public eye," the Olympic champn said.Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Dame Kelly, 52, shared her relief at g out as gay last monthAt the ont of the para, the star of Netflix g-of-age drama Heartstopper, Joe Locke, said was an honour to be celebratg "beg queer when the world might not be so acceptg".Padraig Ni Raghillig, who ro her Harley-Davidson at the ont of the Pri para as print of Dyk on Bik London, said felt "fantastic" to be back after two years.And Kev, om Uganda, said he was "so, so, so happy" to e to Pri London. "I'm proud to be a gay man," he said.Media ptn, London Pri at 50: Veteran meets para first-timerImage source, PA MediaImage ptn, Pri volunteers add rabow face pat to each other's fac ahead of the Pri London paraLoud, proud and backBy Lren Moss, LGBT and inty rrponnt, at the paraIn 2022 Pri is most fely a party.People were dancg the street, throwg sweets, blowg whistl and havg a great time.An enormo rabow flag billowed out behd the Gay Liberatn Front, who anised the first prott 1972.There's no doubt that 's worlds away om what was when started wh a few hundred people riskg arrt for kissg each other the street.They're followed by thoands of people who want to make their voic heard at the place where Pri was born 50 years ago.Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, More than 600 LGBTQ+ muny groups joed the marchImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Revellers wore face pat, glter, jewels and sequsMohammed Nazir, 24, om Banglash, om mpaign group Rabows Across Borrs, said he wanted to dite this year's pri to those who were still forced to hi their sexualy."Pri is about self-affirmatn, digny and equaly.

We're marchg today for those Oslo, for those who haven't ma the progrs we've ma."Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Revellers gathered Trafalgar Square for mic and entertamentImage source, EPAImage ptn, It is the 50th anniversary of the UK's first Pri para LondonUniformed officers om the Metropolan Police did not jo this year's para, as they have done past events, after anisers asked them not to take part.Organisers said reflected the "very real ncerns" of the LGBTQ+ muny - particular over the force's handlg of four murrs of gay men by serial killer Stephen Port.The force acknowledged ncerns om the LGBTQ+ muny the wake of quts which nclud police failgs "probably" ntributed to the aths of the young men.It wasn't jt London that marked Pri on Saturday.People Shetland held their first Pri ftival, the most northerly celebratn of s kd the UK,plete wh burlque dancers, a samba band and people drsed as Vikgs.Clacton, Essex, also celebrated s first Pri event, after aniser Cheryl Pipersaid she never thought Pri would reach the town.Image ptn, Vikgs drsed up for Shetland's Pri, while drag queens travelled by ferry om Aberen to be thereImage source, Jamie Niblock/BBCImage ptn, Sam Kantor, Tami Page-Langley and Gray Adams-Hall arranged the first Clacton PriMore on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s. From Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill and Alabama’s ban on genr-affirmg healthre, a total of 28 stat have troduced more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ measur that seek to turn back the clock on our hard-earned eedoms and lim our abily to live almost feels like the past 60 years of activism, heroism and radil tn by queer folks have been undone. And Reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene recently tweeted that she will be “troducg a bill to make illegal for children to be exposed to Drag Queen performanc” misguid efforts to monize LGBTQ+ folks reek of s-old homophobia and transphobia that have placed a mented time warp and tapulted back to an era before Stonewall and before the advancement of the morn queer liberatn, even though buyg a rabow clutch om Coach might provi some momentary athetic pleasure, the way forward the midst of such rampant and vic attacks on queer and trans liv is through llective anizg, not llectg Pri merch.