Here’s everythg you need to know about Manchter Pri’s Gay Village Party

Contents:

• THE MANCHTER PRI FTIVAL GAY VILLAGE PARTY LE-UP
• DETAILS OF THIS YEAR'S GAY VILLAGE PARTY WILL BE REVEALED SOON! 
• MANCHTER PRI 2022: FULL PROGRAMME, GAY VILLAGE PARTY & SUPERBIA LE-UP ANNOUNCED PL TICKET RMATN
• MANCHTER PRI BACK WH A BANG FOR 2023 AS TICKETS FOR GAY VILLAGE PARTY GO LIVE THIS WEEK
• A MANC’S GUI TO: THE GAY VILLAGE, MORE THAN JT A LATE-NIGHT PARTY DISTRICT
• KEMPTOWN GAY VILLAGE STREET PARTY – A PROPOSED WAY FORWARD!
• HERE’S EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MANCHTER PRI’S GAY VILLAGE PARTY
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THE MANCHTER PRI FTIVAL GAY VILLAGE PARTY LE-UP

The Gay Village Party is a diverse, clive queer-led and queer-n celebratn of LGBTQ+ life and love Manchter’s world-famo Gay Village.

Headlg this year’s Gay Village Party is Brazilian sensatn and the most followed drag queen the world, Pabllo Vtar. We are also welg back our homegrown legends as Danny Beard returns to the Gay Village Party wh their brand new shy crown as the reigng wner of RuPl’s Drag Race UK, to host Danny Beard and iends for the fifth nsecutive year.

‘Drag Hero’ BIMINI will headle Trans Filth and Joy which also mak a return to the Gay Village Party this year. Gok Wan will headle and will be joed by lol talent cludg The Bten Peach and Gracie Manchter Pri Ftival Gay Village Party Le-up.

DETAILS OF THIS YEAR'S GAY VILLAGE PARTY WILL BE REVEALED SOON! 

For over thirty years New York New York bar has been the beatg heart of Manchter's Gay Village. The roots of Manchter Pri are firmly the heart of our world-famo Gay Village. Takg place om Friday 26 - Monday 29 Augt, the Gay Village Party is the ultimate street party LGBTQ+ celebratn as the sun sh down on our much loved bbled streets!

The Gay Village Party is a space for all of the different members of our LGBTQ+ fay to e together, so jo 2022 for another credible celebratn of LGBTQ+ life at the heart of Manchter Pri. Artists nfirmed to play the dance arena on Saturday are: DJ Luck and MC Neat, Sticky, Kele Le Roc, Lisa Maffia, Sunship, Jt Soriah, Joe Hunt, Lilh, Gay Garage, Anto KMA and Mix-Strs. Early bird tickets to the Saturday street party, ma stage, dance arena, baret stage, funfair and all of the bars the gay village are £46.

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

If you jt want to attend the gay village street party, cludg muny market stalls and all bars, tickets st £18.

You n watch the para at pot along the route, or go to the start and follow the procsn as mak s way om Centenary Square down to the Gay Village. Other than the obv zero tolerance le towards anti-social, homophobic or transphobic behavur, there are certa banned ems and wristband l.

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A huge programme of activi and events has been unveiled, wh a foc on the Gay Village and Canal Street areas of the cy and the return of the extremely-popular a uple of years which the ftival has been affected by Covid-19, and after last year’s event which took place mired ntroversy over Pri’s purpose and directn and which led to a major nsultatn and listeng exercise, the anisers are lookg forward to the 2022 team behd Manchter Pri says most of the events will be ee and money om the tickets will be gog to supportg LGBTQ+ and chari Greater ’s your gui to what’s happeng at the 2022 edn of Manchter Pri and how you n get tickets for para through the cy centre is back for Manchter Pri 2022When is Manchter Pri 2022 and what is happeng?

Manchter Pri 2022 tak place over the Augt Bank Holiday weekend, kickg off on Thursday 25 Augt and wh the celebratns roundg off on Monday 29 centrepiece of the celebratns, the enormo para through Manchter cy centre, is back after the panmic rtrictns scuppered last Gay Village Party will have an array of talent on s stag while there will also be street events, activi for young people, talks and is the programme for Manchter Pri 2022?

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Surroundg this will be a street party wh markets, performanc and parti across the venu the Gay Village throughout the weekend. The will take place on the Saturday and Sunday (27 and 28 Augt) Fay Pri at last year’s eventSuperbia, Manchter Pri’s year-round programme of arts and culture, will host the Superbia Weekend, offerg a seri of alhol-ee events for those who wish to celebrate their Manchter Pri a more tranquil whole thg will then close on a solemn and thoughtful note on Monday 29 Augt wh the Candlel Vigil Sackville Garns wh HIV support chary Gee Hoe is happeng at the Gay Village Party? The full le-up for the Gay Village Party, which has been -signed partnership wh Manchter’s queer muni, has now been is openg on Friday 26 Augt wh a trans led and curated event, Trans Filth & Joy, and will ntue throughout the weekend wh a diverse programme cludg takeovers om Black Pri MCR, Fat Pri and Queer Women’s Filth and Joy will kick off the ftival on the Alan Turg stage wh an event put together by two trans anisatns, Trans Creative and Milk stage will then featur performanc across the weekend om acts cludg Melanie C, Nade Coyle, Chary Shop Sue and Drag Race UK star, MancUny Stage, which is puttg the spotlight on homegrown and lol talent throughout the weekend, will start on Friday 27 Augt wh Fat Pri, wh DJs, dancers and performers all helpg to celebrate big Enby Show will take place on the Cabaret StageBlack Pri MCR will take ftival-goers on a mil journey, celebratg the black roots of hoe mic, dis, funky hoe, vol and tribal wh exceptnal DJs and inic dancers om the Northern Vogue Ballroom Queer Women’s Takeover will clu DJ Mix-Strs and DJ Róis, founr of the What She Said Club which giv space to LGBTQ+ women, genr non nformg and non-bary people, Paigey Cakey, and Manchter LGBTQ+ RnB DJs Stacy Bee, Nkay and DJ Cabaret Stage will host The Enby Show, which has been scribed as an “electric, unique and vibrant” genr-bendg variety show.

KEMPTOWN GAY VILLAGE STREET PARTY – A PROPOSED WAY FORWARD!

The events at Manchter Pri 2022 are gog to be ee wh the exceptn of the Gay Village Party, which has low e, fay tickets and VIP optns available addn to the standard day and weekend tickets. 50 om every ticket will be rgfenced as a donatn to the Manchter Pri Communy Fund, wh the money gog directly to LGBTQ+ and projects Greater Manchter through the distributn of full weekend ticket for the Gay Village Party is £32. 50 and Saturday and Sunday both £ Gay Village Party on the Monday is accsible for a £2.

Manchter Pri has prevly announced was be makg chang for this year’s ftival, which clud axeg the MCR Pri Live mic event and refocg s attentn on the LGBTQ+ muny, s activist roots and the Gay Village around Canal Fletcher, CEO at Manchter Pri, said: “We’re lighted that after a uple of years rtricted by Covid, we’re able to announce the excg schle of events that will make up this year’s Manchter Pri Ftival, wh six out of seven of our events beg ee to attend.

“We know how important is for those buyg tickets for the Gay Village Party to know that money is gog directly to the and chari Manchter that mean the most to our muni. Now, for Manchter Pri Ftival 2023, there are six wonrful events that are all absolutely ee to attend, however, the ticketed Gay Village Party around Canal Street is back as always and pass go on sale this Wednday at 12pm.

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A space for all members of the LGBTQ+ fay to e together, the Gay Village Party is the heart of the legendary annual ftival. Whilst the rt of the ftival at large is ee to enjoy at your leisure, tickets are required to enter the Gay Village Party performanc and around Canal Street.

Pri 2023 is set to be an absolute belter as always and whether you’re g along for the ee events or wantg hopg to be part of the inic Gay Village Party, you’re guaranteed to have a great time. Once aga, tickets for the Manchter Pri Ftival 2023’s Gay Village Party go live at 12pm tomorrow (Wednday, 8 March) and n be purchased through Ticketmaster.

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Known for s late-night clubs and cheap drks als, the Gay Village is popular wh Manchter partygoers - but there's more gog on behd the scen. The neighbourhood has weled a gay clientele sce the 1940s, but, by all acunts, ’s only the past twenty years or so that thgs have really started to turn a rner, spe homosexualy beg crimalised 1967. An excerpt om Mancunian Gay magaze 1984 tled ‘Not tonight, Anrton’ tells the story of how one night 20 pla cloth officers stormed to Napoleons and forced everyone attendance to provi their personal rmatn before beg allowed to leave – an cint that was later brand as “an obv se of police victimisatn” a prs release issued by the Gay Centre.

In spe of this, the first Gay Pub and Club Olympics event (now thought of as the gural Manchter Pri) still went ahead on the Augt Bank Holiday weekend of 1985. Notably, had the support of a new generatn of Labour uncillors elected 1984 – who gave the gay muny their support and appoted Lbian and Gay officers. Inspired by Ken Livgstone‘s early days on the Greater London Council, those new uncillors created an Equal Opportuni Commtee and appoted Maggie Turner and Pl Fairweather what would prove a landmark move for gay rights the north of England.

1986 saw thgs gradually improve for the muny, as uncillors’ ‘put their arms around’ the gay muny, welg a Northern Pri event 1986 and ntributg public funds towards the celebratns.

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As the ’80s ntued, Manchter’s fight for gay rights ntued wh the Sectn 28 march 1988 actg as a huge turng pot as the Thatcher ernment’s dranian legislatn brought people out onto the streets to prott their drov. Still, wasn’t until the early neti that the Gay Village weled s first openly-gay bar and even then police raids the area ntued right up to 1994. The battl agast stutnal homophobia were still beg fought, clearly, and some ntued to ll the Canal Street area ‘Satan’s Square Mile’ – but the openg of new nightclubs like Cz 101 and semal events Electric Chair and Poptastic saw the muny phg back.

Repurposed at the end of the Indtrial Revolutn to a gay quarter that has sce bee one of the most famo the world, Manchter has a lot of thgs to be proud of – and the village is fely up there wh the bt.

Habha – A hidn foodie gem the heart of the gay village, the Ethpian rtrant Habha ss above a pretty n-of-the-l takeaway and is que easy to miss. Napoleons – The olst gay pub the neighbourhood, Napoleon’s dat all the way back to 1941 and provis a safe space for trans people, crossdrsers and drag queens. Churchills – Somethg of an stutn the Gay Village, Churchills always has a buzz about .

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Vanilla – The only lbian venue an unniably gay-domated neighbourhood, Vanilla is probably more nightclub than bar.

Cz 101 – This gay nightclub an old textile warehoe is ready to party seven days a week, wh a range of different nights playg everythg om cuttg-edge hoe to mercial floor-fillers and 80s, 90s and 00s classics. New York New York – From cktails the glam Queens Bar, to live baret, DJ sets and dancg ’til late the club, ‘Party Palace’ NYNY is open to party seven nights a week A safe, iendly, welg space for all, ’s sat the heart of the Gay Village for over thirty years.

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Osrs – This timate, theatre-style gay bar shows film clips om a mix of classic and morn mils and offers live mic om sgers and pianists on selected nights. The Eagle – This popular men-only gay club gets packed wh guys, all of whom pretty much e for a siar thg. G-A-Y – A lbian and gay club known for blastg out the pop tun to the early hours, G-A-Y is one of the big fol pots of Canal Street and really is somewhere you n’t avoid endg up if you’re on a night out there.

Read more: Photos of Manchter’s legendary gay clubnight Flh go on display at Kimpton Clocktower.

The home of Manchter Pri sce 1985, every year visors flock to the Gay Village their thoands to party the streets and celebrate love all s forms across the Augt Bank Holiday weekend. From The Bean of Hope, a symbol of solidary and memorial to everyone lost to HIV that was first nceived 1997, to the 2001 bronze statue of Manchter putg legend and gay in Alan Turg, head over to Sackville Garns to get your culture and nature fix one. Ho (well, mostly flats) the Gay Village are, on average, some of the pricit the cy centre.

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Thanks to the dtrial herage of the Gay Village, many boast veted dtrial elements like exposed brick walls, beams and sash wdows. Wh s own taxi ranks, regular b nng up and down Prcs Street and easy accs to tras and trams at Manchter Picdilly Statn, the Gay Village is extremely well nnected. The post Prton Park event started out as a small grassroots celebratn supported by both the LGBT and bs muny anised penntly of Pri by a group of lol bs, most recently unr the name GVP (Gay Village Party).

For the first time ever, the seaont road, Mare Para, will be closed to traffic for the event, creatg a unique and vibrant gay village for the Pri weekend wh var entertament areas cludg zon dited to baret, bears and dis. Jam Ledward edor of GScene mented: “Now that Pri is a paid for event, each year the Gay Village Street Party unr ever creasg prsure om numbers attendg, attractg a rough, noisy and pecially on the Saturday night, a not too LGBT muny crowd to St Jam’s Street. “In fact is possibly our ‘last chance saloon’ to ensure that the Village Party ntu each year liverg a bumper end of season boost to the many and varied LGBT bs the Gay Village.

Detective Chief Inspector Pl Betts om Ssex Police, said: “We have been workg closely wh the anisers of Pri, Brighton and Hove Cy Council and the trars Kemptown to close roads for the Gay Village Party St Jam’s Street on Saturday and Sunday (Augt 2 and 3).

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The four-day event, which will take place Manchter’s Gay Village om Friday 23 to Monday 26 Augt, will this year brg live performanc, a food and makers market, fay-foced activi and more for Pri-goers to enjoy.

“The Gay Village Party will be a te celebratn of LGBT+ life right at the heart of the ftival our cy’s inic Gay Village, ” said Mark Fletcher, chief executive for Manchter Pri.

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It will nsist of Manchter Pri Live, the Candlel Vigil, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchter Pri Para and Youth Pri MCR. Day tickets for the Gay Village Party are £10 pl bookg fe, weekend tickets are £15 pl bookg fe, and fay tickets for eher Saturday or Sunday are £20.

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