Manchester Pride

Manchester Pride is an annual LGBT pride festival and parade held each summer in the city of Manchester, England. It is one of the longest running in the country and attracts thousands of visitors to the city's gay village, Canal Street, each year. The festival's events that take place within the Village require a paid-for Pride wristband for entry, while other events, such as the parade, can be watched by any spectator.

The current ten-day festival includes a "Pride Fringe" with a series of arts, music and cultural events all over the city as well as community events including poetry readings, quizzes and film showings, culminating in "The Big Weekend", a 72-hour party during the August bank holiday weekend in Canal Street and the surrounding area, with a parade through the streets of Manchester.

The Manchester Gay Pub and Club Olympics and Gay Centre Fun Day took place on August Bank Holiday 1985. The following year in June 1986 there was a Pride North across the north-west of England with a launch in the Rembrandt Hotel. In 1990 there was again a Pride in Manchester in June. Around the world June was traditionally the month for pride because the Stonewall Riots happened in June of 1969.

In 1989 the Northwest Campaign for Lesbian & Gay Equality organised Manchester's "Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Diversity" Love Rights. It consisted of a music festival (performers included Jimmy Somerville and Yazz who performed her #2 UK chart hit of the same name "Stand Up (for your Love Rights)") at the Free Trade Hall and a political march starting at All Saints Park culminating in a rally with stalls in Albert Square. At the time the main focus of the gay rights movement was opposing Section 28.

The jumble sale fundraiser on August Bank Holiday outside the Rembrandt took place in 1990 as it had done in 1989 and and probably earlier. Although these days Manchester Pride likes to claim this as its roots, it's clear that the August jumble sale was not a pride event. We can see that in 1990 there was both a pride in June and a jumble sale on August Bank Holiday.

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