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The UK’s biggest LGBT festival has postponed its event into the autumn as coronavirus sweeps across the country. Birmingham Pride has announced it will not take place as planned on May 23rd and 24th.
The theme for next year’s Birmingham Pride celebrations has been announced, and it is ‘Love Out Loud’. The official theme has been released with a snazzy bright new slogan design bearing red, blue and pink typeface; with a vibrant rainbow motif attached to the left and a heart shape representing the “v” in “love”.
A number of LGBTQ+ groups across the city have called on Birmingham Pride to ban cultural appropriation, following an I Am Birmingham article highlighting the issue was published last month. In light of several Native American headdresses being worn as ‘costumes’ at Birmingham Pride celebrations, representatives from queer groups of colour have condemned the practice.
Following a successful Birmingham Pride event this bank holiday weekend, the team behind the UK’s largest two-day LGBT+ festival have already announced the dates for 2019! Set to return on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May, once again during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, the annual event in Birmingham’s Gay Village will feature the staple Carnival Parade from…
Why is it that in 2018, with constant talk in the media about racism and interracial relations, do we STILL have people that don’t understand that cultural appropriation is wrong? In this case, revellers swaggering along Hurst Street during Birmingham Pride in the cultural attire. I mean, come on, seriously?
Celebrity Big Brother winner and Ru Paul’s Drag Race legend Courtney Act -who’s been performing an incredible set at this year’s Birmingham Pride – has paid a somewhat hilarious tribute to fellow Drag Race star Vanessa Matteo by way of her very own rendition of Amy Winhouse classic ‘Valerie‘. You would never think an actual (weather-related)…