Newstle Gay Pri se s return July 2017 for the 7th year nng. Thoands flocked to the Town Moor to celebrate everythg LGBT and everyone is preparg to do the same this year. So when is ? The 3-day celebratn starts on Friday 21st July and ns until Sunday 23rd. The untdown has already…
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NEWSTLE GAY PRI 2017: WHATS ON
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"We are ordary people; there's nothg different to , and that's the msage I want people to take away, and jt want to be able to bat homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. Newstle Gay Pri se s return July 2017 for the 7th year nng.
As well as the ma stage we have all the zon open for you to vis and a Fun Fair When the park clos you n ntue wh the party round Newstle's vibrant Gay Scene where all the venu will be open, look out for what is happeng around the well as the Ma Stage the followg Zon are open:Steve Paske Health ZoneFay & Youth ZoneEazystreet Cabaret TentPowerhoe Dance TentMarket StallsNewstle Pri is a FREE ftival please put a donatn a bucket to help keep ee the future or why not upgra to the Goln Circle or VIPWe want you to have a safe and fun time at Newstle Pri.
NEWSTLE GAY VILLAGE
As a mm lnch an onle exhibn about Pri and s history Newstle, four of the artists volved tell the BBC about their memori and views of the LGBT source, Richard BlissImage ptn, Richard Bliss has ma a film about the LGBT muny the 1980s'Beg ont page news was absolutely hilar"Richard Bliss' film is about beg gay 1980s Newstle and his short foray to lol his iends and fay, Richard Bliss' sexualy was not after he publicly "outed" himself durg a uncil bate 1988, he found himself on the ont of Newstle's Eveng Chronicle proclaimed as the cy's first openly gay uncillor. "I don't thk anyone who had met me would thk I was straight, so my beg gay beg ont page news was absolutely hilar, " Mr Bliss than 30 years on, the artist has been lookg back at his two-year flg wh polics and how thgs have, and have not, changed.
Battl yet to be won clu makg the LGBT muny "more clive" and "really tacklg racism", he source, Richard BlissImage ptn, Richard Bliss was 25 when he stood for electnVictori clu "regnisg that lbians and gay men live happy lovg fay uns" and "have children", and the portrayal of gay people on TV shows livg " unproblematic" and "not miserable" the appearance of a gay uple an advert for example n still get people riled wh accatns of virtue-signallg or beg preached at.
"When he was 25, Mr Bliss was moved to stand for electn to Newstle Council by three key issu: the rponse to the HIV and Aids epimic, the mooted troductn of the Poll tax and the bate around Sectn 28, which aimed to ban teachg about lbian and gay relatnships was elected May 1988 wh the Sectn 28 bate g the followg the bate, which the uncil agreed to oppose the sectn's troductn, he announced he was gay, promptg the Chronicle's ver source, Richard BlissImage ptn, Richard Bliss' claratn the uncil chamber ma ont page news 1988"I was young and I was unpromisg my views, " Mr Bliss said. I wanted to make the se that lbian and gay men need to be protected by the law rather than beg attacked by .