Manchester gay pride
Manchester Pride
About
The Manchester Pride Festival celebrates queer phrase through a ‘party as protest.’ As one of the largest Pride celebration across the planet, Manchester Pride refuses to hold celebrations quietly, celebrating gender non-conforming people, culture and expression in Manchester as publicly as possible.
Manchester Pride celebrations provide a vacuum for LGBTQ+ people to actively communicate themselves, many of whom may include experienced discrimination and suppressed or secret their Queer culture, as well as a space for allies and organisations to express their support. Pride provides an opportunity to celebrate the richness of the collective as well as fight against any notions of suppression – holding accurate LGBTQ+ pride at its heart.
The Manchester Pride Festival is free to appear with organisations across the city hosting and participating in a range of events. Most notably, the Pride March is a key event across the weekend in which organisations march in support of their commitment to celebrating queerness and challenging discrimination, stigma and LGBTQ+ hate crimes. Find out more information about what’s on and how you can obtain involved here.
It’s that moment of year again: rainbows festooning the streets, huge stickers in the windows of Starbucks and HSBC making clear that same-sex attracted people’s money is welcome there. Manchester Pride is back in town. It’s been 39 years since Manchester City Council first funded a two-week party on Oxford Street for the queer collective, planting the seeds for the Manchester Pride Festival as we know it today. And it’s been just three years since Manchester Pride Limited, the help running the annual festivities, was mired in a mini-scandal over reports that its CEO had been awarded a £20,000 remunerate rise while cutting funds earmarked for local LGBTQ charities. The Guardian reported at the second that the organisation donated nearly £150,000 to charity in 2018 — about 6% of its revenue. Then, “despite bringing in a record-breaking £3.94m the tracking year, when Ariana Grande headlined, its charitable contribution was £121,135, 3% of its revenue.” Booking a global star like Ariana Grande seemed to be an inflection point for Manchester Pride, which has grown larger and flashier over the years. In 2019, according to the Guardian, “the ch This year's Celebration celebrations take place from Friday 25 August through the Bank Holiday weekend to the early hours of Tuesday 29 August. Several temporary street closures will be in place to accommodate the main festival around the Gay Village and the fabulous Celebration, on Saturday 26 August in the metropolis centre. PrideFruityProperSlayDivaJoyNo ShadeServingMotherProgressTogetherBuzzin'NorthernQueenLoveFabulousUniqueQueerMintBeautiful Buzzin'FruityQueerMotherServingDivaSlayJoyMintProperPrideQueenProgressTogetherLoveFabulousUniqueNorthernBeautifulNo Shade MotherJoyServingLoveQueerQueenTogetherProgressSlayMintNo ShadeBuzzin'ProperFruityFabulousDivaUniquePrideBeautifulNorthern MotherNorthernNo ShadeQueerUniquePrideBeautifulJoyFruityDivaTogetherSlayQueenFabulousProperMintLoveProgressServingBuzzin' ServingQueerFruityNorthernFabulousUniqueNo ShadeDivaMintBuzzin'MotherPrideTogetherProperSlayLoveJoyProgressQueenBeautiful MintBuzzin'No ShadeUniqueQueerBeautifulProgressPrideServingProperJoyLoveQueenMotherNorthernFabulousTogetherSlayDivaFruity No ShadeNorthernPrideMotherQueerServingJoyFabulousTogetherUniqueMintFruityBeautifulProgressProperSlayLoveBuzzin'DivaQueen PrideDivaQueenMintFabulousSlayProgressNorthernProperFruityBeautifulTogetherMotherServingQueerNo ShadeLoveUniqueBuzzin'Joy NorthernProperServingUniqueFruityLoveQueerNo ShadeDivaMotherQueenSlayPrideMintProgressFabulousBuzzin'TogetherBeautifulJoy FabulousDivaBuzzin'SlayMotherBeautifulPrideQueerFruityProperQueenServingNo ShadeUnique
Should Manchester Pride be a party or a protest?
Roads and transport Road closures for Lgbtq+ fest 2023
Roads closed for the full weekend:
Roads closed from 6am Friday 25 August until 6am on Tuesday 29 August:
Roads closed from 11am on Friday 25 August until 6am on Tuesday 29 August:
Saturday 26 August: Roads closed for the Pride Pa