Brighton and Hove Pride, PRIDE Part 2
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Random
blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were
we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is LGBTQ/Pride part two specifically about Brighton Pride which
happened last weekend.
Brighton
and Hove Pride as been a yearly event held in Brighton and Hove,
having been organised the past few years by Community Interest
Company (CiC) who promote equality, diversity and advance education
as well as eliminate discrimination against the LBGTQ community. The
event is usually held in the first week of August and attracts an
estimated 450,000 people to the city and an estimated £20.5 million
to the cities economy.
Brighton
and Hove Pride has been an event since October 1972 when the Sussex
Gay Liberation Front (SGLF) gave a gay demonstration and gave a full
march in July 1973. after a few years without one Pride returned in
1991 with the Brighton Area Action (BAA) against section 28 this
brought hundreds to the street and the contemporary pride started in
1992. Since 1996 the park festival was added and held at Preston
Park. Since 2013 its included an Arts and Film festival and a Pride
Dog show.
In
2002 the trans community was added to the pride making it a
completely LGBT event and in 2004 Brighton and Hove Pride became a
charity in an attempt to help develop the event and advance public
awareness by raising awareness of issues affecting LGBT people. As
well as making grants and donations to other charitable and voluntary
organisations n the area. In 2011 organisers added a controversial
(at the time) entry fee the company was in financial ruin with
£200.000 in debt. Since 2013 Pride has been under new management and
has since raised £700.000 for Local LGBT groups. The pride event now
includes not only the parade and the Park Festival at Preston Park
but the Pride village Party in Kemp Town an arts and film festival, a
pride dog show and several club parties around the city. The main
stage headliners for Pride Festival this year were Jessie J and Kylie
Minogue.
St
Johns Ambulance has always provided Brighton pride with Medical
Provision. With Pride in its current format volunteers from across
the UK are often needed to provide skills, equipment and knowledge to
look after those requiring medical aid at the event and often support
the local ambulance service by responding to 999 calls on foot due to
road closures during the event. Several other private medical
providers operate during the event. West street is covered by space
safe and St James Street is covered by a provider who works
specifically in St James Street alone.
I
don't have much of an opinion form 2017's Brighton pride since we'd
just moved in to Brighton not even a month before hand and I'd spent
one of the days working completely missing a good chunk of the party.
The next day we had a friend visit so I'd spent the day entertaining.
For pride 2018 I had the ability to enjoy the pride parade and take
several pictures of the event. My opinion of this years pride which
happened last weekend was
It
had a different flavour this year since the pride route changed from
going down North street (which is both the High street of Brighton
and the main thorough faire between Brighton and hove) to going down
North road instead which is two roads inwards towards Preston Park.
It was particularly useful because my road is attached to North road
so I didn't have to go far to enjoy myself. I thoroughly enjoyed the
atmosphere and the music.....but I ended up taking a seat in The
Pottery Place Cafe (http://www.paintingpotterycafe.co.uk/
) for the last five
to ten minutes of the parade due to it being rather warm and the fact
I was having back cramps due to the Crimson wave.
Here
are links to the video and photos of this years pride:
My
Instagram:
The
Argus Newspaper Website:
The
Guardian Newspaper Website:
Due
to technical Issues on the day the Pride twitch stream on
https://www.twitch.tv/coopertowers
was cancelled.
The
websites used in the research for proper terms of part one, general
information and Websites for LGBTQ and their families who require
help in general or people to talk to:
And
there you have it, we'll be leaving this here for today. Please,
Please, Please be considerate when you leave a comment. To all those
who don't agree with gay rights for whatever reason please be
considerate with your words and understand that the world is home to
a vast diversity of people, share with others if you want or not.
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