With Birmingham Pride taking place this Bank Holiday weekend, the city is well and truly stoked for planned fun and festivities; with the rainbow flag firmly in place across Brum ahead of the UK’s largest two-day LGBT+ celebration.
Retailers, bars, community groups and leisure venues have adopted the iconic colour palette in anticipation of the queer culture fest, which takes place on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May.
Pride will be launching from Victoria Square with a parade, which will make its way to the Gay Quarter or “Village” in and around Hurst Street where celebrations are expected to continue throughout the weekend.
Here’s some awesome photos of Birmingham embracing this year’s ‘Be You’ theme:
#1 The Bull
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#2 Nightingale Club
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#3 Grand Central and the Bullring
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#4 Tesco
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#5 UnMuted Birmingham
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#6 The National Trust Midlands
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#7 Birmingham LGBT Centre
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#8 Network West Midlands ‘Pride’ bus
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#9 ‘Pride’ bus stops along parade route
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#10 Aston Villa Football Club
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#11 Tribute dessert at The Ivy Birmingham
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#12 Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
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#13 Tom Hayes with Saving Lives UK
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#14 Pride at West Bromwich Albion
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#15 Nitrogenie in Selfridges
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#16 Transport for West Midlands
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#17 Foyles bookstore in Grand Central
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#18 Selfridges in Birmingham
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#19 West Midlands Fire Service
This year we've teamed up with our @WMPolice and @OFFICIALWMAS colleagues for @BirminghamPride 🏳️🌈- we've got a float!!
🎉Here's a little sneak preview! 🎉
Make sure you come say hi to us all tomorrow 👋#BrumPride #LGBT #Pride #999Family pic.twitter.com/NwArgdxGkG— West Midlands Fire Service (@WestMidsFire) May 25, 2018
#20 New Street Station
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#21 T2 Teas in the Bullring
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#22 Rainbow Noir
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#23 Sidewalk
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#24 The Bullring
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#25 WM Mayor Andy Street
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Hope everyone has a fantastic Bank Holiday weekend. Will hopefully see as many of you as possible at @BirminghamPride and maybe, just maybe, we can enjoy a @Coventry_City and @AVFCOfficial play-off double success.
— Andy Street (@andy4wm) May 25, 2018
#26 Birmingham Asian LGBT
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#27 The Alliance Network Midlands
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#28 Radisson Blu team
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#29 The I Am Birmingham team
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#30 Starbucks
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#33 Topman / Topshop
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#34 Missing bar
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#35 Nostalgia and Comics
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🖤❤🧡💛💚💙💜❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
Happy #BirminghamPride!
Our staff put together a pretty cool window display to show our support!
🖤❤🧡💛💚💙💜❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 pic.twitter.com/1CFcaeFqFI— Worlds Apart Birmingham (@WorldsApart_Bir) May 26, 2018
#36 HMV Bullring, Birmingham
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#37 Equator bar
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Birmingham Pride takes place on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May, during the Bank Holiday weekend. Tickets are still available here.