‘GET YER BANNERS OUT’
ROUTE ANNOUNCED FOR LIVERPOOL’S FIRST PRIDE MARCH
Organisers of Liverpool’s first ever official Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Pride festival have released details of the ‘Pride March’, which will kick-start the festivities in style on Saturday 7th August.
Those who would like to take part are urged to bring your banners, flags, posters, glittering costumes (or lack thereof) and most importantly your friends, family and yourself along to St Georges Plateau for 11.30am and soak up the pre-march atmosphere with other Pride goers.
The march will set off at 12.30pm on a route through Liverpool city centre, which will take in Roe St, Hood St, Whitechapel, Lord St and Castle St before coming to an end at 1.30pm on the main festival site; Dale St at Exchange Street East.
The end of the march will be marked with a speech from the main stage, before we strike up the live acts on the three stages and the Rainbow Circus themed celebrations begin throughout the Dale St area.
Before 2010, Liverpool was the largest city in the country that hasn’t had its own official pride festival. The city, and the region have had a number of high profile homophobic and transphobic attacks in recent years. At the launch of the LGB&T Network the public voted for a pride festival to engage, empower and involve the LGB&T communities within the city and this was fully endorsed by Liverpool City Council in January 2009. Liverpool Pride 2010 will celebrate the diverse community of one of Europe’s leading cultural cities.
Council leader Joe Anderson said: “Liverpool is famed for its diversity and a Pride festival is a welcome addition to our wide range of cultural events. It is vital that we take every opportunity to celebrate and showcase every community and that is why I am delighted that the city council is supporting this festival. It will attract people from far and wide to Liverpool, promoting tolerance and providing an economic boost to the city.”
Before attending the march; individuals, groups and organisations wishing to take part are asked to register at www.liverpoolpride.co.uk/get-involved so that festival organisers can gain an estimate of how many people will be coming along. The Pride team will be organising special banner making workshops over the next couple of weeks if you’re interested in making your own gorgeous banner to march with, for more information go to www.liverpoolpride.co.uk.
ROLL UP, ROLL UP BOYS AND GIRLS
THE EXCITING PRIDE LINE UP WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER THIS WEEK…
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About Liverpool Pride 2010
Liverpool Pride 2010 is the first official Liverpool Pride festival by and for the Liverpool lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&T) communities. It is a two day event with a one day festival on the 7 August 2010 and a ‘Chilled Out Sunday’ on 8 August with cultural and sports events spread throughout the city.
Before choosing a date, organisers took a number of factors into consideration; such as other pride events, the Liverpool event calendar and key dates for the LGB&T community. LGB&T members of the community were consulted on a potential date. The consensus was that people wanted festival date to mean something important and asked that it reflect the anniversary of Michael Causer’s death, 2 August 2010.
Liverpool Pride is funded through contributions made from our delivery partners as well through advertising and sponsorship. We also receive a significant amount of ‘in-kind’ support from organisations and volunteers.
Liverpool Pride does not make a profit; all funds raised go to the delivery of the festival. Any surplus we make will be put towards the development of the next festival. We are also looking at how we can help support charities that share our values.About Citysafe – Key Delivery partner of Liverpool Pride 2010
Citysafe is the Community Safety Partnership for Liverpool. Partners include Liverpool City Council, Merseyside Police, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Health, Merseytravel, National Probation Service Merseyside, the universities, local businesses, community organisations and many others all working together to build safer communities. It also looks towards building more prosperous, cleaner, safer, stronger and sustainable communities in which every citizen will have a right to live in confidence without fear for personal safety or for the safety of others.
