Pride is a protest! Stonewall was a riot!

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Thinking about taking part in the parade but wish it was like old times where marching for our rights came before entering as walking advertisements for greedy corporate sponsors and boistrous self-publisist gay charities?

Join us in declaring “Pride IS a Protest”!

Taking inspiration from Birmingham’s amazing Pride is a protest event, there is now an organised group of queer activists working to ensure a similar event takes place during the Manchester Pride Parade on Saturday 23 August 2008.

“We face social inequality and discrimination on a daily basis and we have not achieved the aims of the Queer Liberation Movement of the sixties which was so fabulously recreated in last year’s parade. We feel that Birmingham Pride will be incomplete without its Parade, the jewel in the crown of this brilliant weekend. Without a parade, Pride forgets its purpose, not only this, but it is also confined solely to the gay village: out of sight and sound of the heterosexual world.”

This group is for queers living in all areas, but has been initially set-up by queer activists involved in Birmingham’s self-organised PRIDE IS A PROTEST! Parade, which the authorities tried to prevent from happening, and Manchester’s PRIDE IS A PROTEST! STONEWALL WAS A RIOT! Weekend of events August 2008!

Join our Facebook Group to get involved also:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14749493793