Birmingham Pride 1997
May 1997
Birmingham's first pride festival was a carnival event around the city's burgeoning gay village. Unlike the more politicised events worldwide in the eighties, this was purely about the gay community letting its hair down and coming together, although the fact the festival took to the city streets at all made a powerful political statement to the wider community.
Initially there was no Pride Parade. This came about in subsequent years.
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