Editing Pride parade (section)

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There are five main pride events in the UK LGBT pride calendar: [[London Community Pride|London]], [[Brighton Pride|Brighton]], [[Liverpool]], [[Manchester Pride|Manchester]], and [[Birmingham Pride|Birmingham]] being the largest and are the cities with the biggest gay populations.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-21 |title=Top Five Pride Experiences in Britain for 2023 |url=https://www.visitbritain.com/gb/en/media/story-ideas/top-five-pride-experiences-britain-2023-0 |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=VisitBritain |language=en-gb}}</ref>

[[Pride in London]] is one of the biggest in Europe and takes place on the final Saturday in June or first Saturday in July each year.  London also hosted a Black Pride in August and Soho Pride or a similar event every September. During the early-1980s, there was a women-only Lesbian Strength march held each year a week before the Gay Pride march. 2012 saw [[World Pride]] coming to London.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Starting in 2017, there is a Pride parade for the city's [[Black British people|black]] community that takes place the day after the main Pride parade, at the [[Vauxhall Gardens]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Baggs |first=Michael |date=6 July 2018 |title=Black Pride: Why we need an event to celebrate being black and gay |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44725126 |work=BBC News |access-date=7 July 2018 }}</ref>  In February 2018, the charity [[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]] announced that they would support Black Pride instead of the main Pride parade.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/stonewalls-attendance-at-pride-events-in-2018 |title=Stonewall's attendance at Pride events in 2018 |date=21 February 2018 |access-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707230605/https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/stonewalls-attendance-at-pride-events-in-2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Brighton Pride]] is held on the first Saturday of August (apart from in 2012 when the event was moved to September due to the 2012 Olympics). The event starts from the seafront and culminating at [[Preston Park, Brighton|Preston Park]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Chris |last=J |title=Parade Route For 2019 |url=https://www.brighton-pride.org/parade-route-for-2019/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Brighton & Hove Pride |language=en-GB |archive-date=June 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629213219/https://www.brighton-pride.org/parade-route-for-2019/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Liverpool Pride]] was launched in 2010, but by 2011 it became the largest free Gay Pride festival in the United Kingdom outside London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gayradiouk.com |title=Liverpool Pride 2012 |publisher=Gaydar Radio |date=May 23, 2012 |access-date=2012-05-30 |archive-date=September 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909030739/http://www.gayradiouk.com/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Dean Booth |url=http://outoncampus.org/uk/events/878/liverpool-pride-2012 |title=Liverpool Pride 2012 |date=May 24, 2012 |publisher=Out on Campus |access-date=2012-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529065119/http://outoncampus.org/uk/events/878/liverpool-pride-2012 |archive-date=May 29, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Jonathon Gilbert |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/04/07/liverpool-pride-expected-to-bring-30-000-people-to-city-for-august-festival-100252-28475192 |title=Liverpool Pride expected to bring 30,000 people to city for August festival |date=April 7, 2011 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |access-date=2012-05-30}}</ref> ([[LGBT culture in Liverpool|Liverpool's LGBT]] population was 94,000 by mid-2009 according to the North West Regional Development Agency.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.vsnw.org.uk/files/Publications/Final_report_Jan_2012.pdf |title= Voluntary Sector North West - Archives}})</ref>

[[Manchester Pride]] has been running since 1985 and centres around the famous [[Canal Street (Manchester)|Canal Street]]. It is traditionally a four-day celebration held over the [[Public holidays in the United Kingdom|August bank holiday]] weekend.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

[[Birmingham Pride]] usually takes place during the final Spring bank holiday weekend in May, and focuses on the [[Birmingham Gay Village]] area of the city, with upwards of 70,000 people in attendance annually.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birmingham Pride - Visit Birmingham |url=https://visitbirmingham.com/event/birmingham-pride/132458101/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=visitbirmingham.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

Pride events also happen in most other major cities such as Belfast, [[Bristol Pride|Bristol]], [[Pride Cymru|Cardiff]], [[Pride Scotia|Edinburgh]], [[Pride Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[Pride in Hull|Hull]], [[Leeds Pride|Leeds]], [[Leicester Pride|Leicester]], [[Northern Pride (festival)|Newcastle]], [[Nottingham Pride|Nottingham]] and Sheffield.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK & Ireland Gay Pride Events Calendar 2022 |url=https://gayprideshop.co.uk/pages/uk-gay-pride-calendar-2022 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=www.gayprideshop.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>