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Brighton Pride

Annual LGBTQ+ event in Brighton and Hove, England

Summary

Annual LGBTQ+ event in Brighton and Hove, England

Field	Value
name	Brighton & Hove Pride
image	Crowd (28745755552).jpg
caption	Crowds at Brighton Pride in 2016
frequency	Annually
founded
location	Brighton, England
years_active	1972–present
founders	Sussex Gay Liberation Front
attendance	500,000
last	–
next	–
website	http://www.brighton-pride.org/

Brighton and Hove Pride is an annual LGBT pride event held in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, organised by Brighton Pride, a community interest company (CIC) which promotes equality and diversity, and advances education to eliminate discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBTQ) community.

The major event is an annual summer festival held in the first week of August, which usually consists of a parade through the city centre, a festival event in Preston Park, the Gay Village party and other club parties. Since 2013, it has also included an arts and film festival and a Pride dog show.

Pride attracts an estimated 500,000 people to the city over the Pride weekend across the Pride parade, Pride in the Park festival, and related events. Pride brings 2% of the city's annual visitors in one day and an estimated £30.5 million to the city's economy, credited as one of the main ways Brighton has boosted its economy from tourism.

History

Brighton and Hove Pride began with a gay demonstration in Brighton in October 1972 by The Sussex Gay Liberation Front (SGLF) and a full pride march in July 1973.

Pride returned to the city in 1991 when Brighton Area Action Against Section 28 organised the first contemporary Pride - a weekend of events which brought hundreds to the streets. After a shaky start with a large event in 1992, followed by bankruptcy of the organising committee and a much more low-key series of events in 1993, the festival began to increase significantly in size in future years, eventually attracting the support of sponsors, pubs, clubs and drag artists. Since 1996, the park festival has been based at Preston Park.

Pride events have traditionally been an environment for celebrating the diversity of the lesbian and gay community. In 2002 Pride in Brighton & Hove agreed to explicitly include and reference the trans community making that year's Pride for the first time an LGBT event. A web site was created in 2002 called GenderDiversity.org with the original proposal to put the T in LGB, an information sheet, and photos of trans people celebrating the first LGBT Brighton Pride in 2002.

In 2004, Brighton Pride became a charity, to develop the event, to advance public education – by raising awareness of issues affecting LGBT people, and to make grants and donations to other charitable and voluntary organisations in the area. In 2011, organisers controversially introduced an entry fee to the park festival, as the company was in financial ruin and ran up over £200,000 in debt. Since 2012, Pride has been under new management and has raised over £922,000 for local LGBT community groups over the past six years. The theme of the event in 2019 was Generations of Love, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in the US, seen as a watershed moment for gay rights and the starting point for the Pride movement.

In 2020, the 30th anniversary Pride was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however a programme of online streamed events took place during the weekend. On 5 May 2021, it was announced that Pride 2021 that had been anticipated to go ahead in a reduced form had been cancelled due to uncertainty over pandemic restrictions.

In 2022 Pride returned to celebrate 30 years of Pride with the parade, street party and the festival in Preston Park headlined by Christina Aguilera and Paloma Faith.

Pride festival

The weekend includes:

The traditional community parade with floats, starting from the seafront via London Road to the park
Fabuloso festival in Preston Park with headlining acts
The Pride Village party (PVP) in Kemp Town and the seafront
Several club parties around the city including Pleasure Gardens in Old Steine
An arts and film festival
A dog show

Headliners

Below is a list of artists who have headlined, or are planned to headline, on the main stage at Brighton Pride.

Year	Date	Headliner(s)	Other Main Stage Artists
Saturday 1 September	Alexandra Burke	Freemasons, Fatboy Slim
Saturday 3 August	Paloma Faith	Alison Moyet, MKS (Sugababes), Stooshe, Ms Dynamite
Saturday 2 August	Blue	Collabro, Heather Peace, Neon Jungle, Kimberly Wyatt, Katy B, Sam Bailey
Saturday 1 August	The Human League	Bright Light Bright Light, Ella Henderson, Fatboy Slim, Foxes, Kelli-Leigh, Ms Dynamite, Tulisa
Saturday 6 August	Sister Sledge	Carly Rae Jepsen, Anne-Marie, Alesha Dixon, DJ Fresh, Dua Lipa, Fleur East, Imani Williams, Seann Miley Moore
Saturday 5 August	Pet Shop Boys	Years & Years, Becky Hill, Fickle Friends, KStewart, Louisa Johnson, M.O
Saturday 4 August	Britney Spears	Ella Eyre, Pixie Lott, Louise Redknapp, MNEK, Mabel
Sunday 5 August	Jess Glynne	Nile Rodgers & Chic, Raye, Gabrielle, House Gospel Choir
Saturday 3 August	Kylie Minogue	Clean Bandit (with Marina), Fleur East, Björn Again, Zak Abel, Rina Sawayama, Alice Chater, Emeli Sandé
Sunday 4 August	**Jessie J
Grace Jones**	Rak-Su, Nina Nesbitt, House Gospel Choir, Grace Carter
Saturday 1 August	Mariah Carey	Bananarama	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Sunday 2 August	The Pussycat Dolls	Todrick Hall	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Saturday 7 August	N/A	N/A	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Sunday 8 August	N/A	N/A	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Saturday 6 August	Christina Aguilera	Tia Kofi, Call Me Loop, L Devine, Bimini Bon-Boulash, Raye, Todrick Hall, Ella Henderson
Sunday 7 August	Paloma Faith	Lyra, Cat Burns, Björn Again, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jake Shears
Saturday 5 August	Black Eyed Peas	Zara Larsson, Jax Jones, Dylan, Mae Muller, Bellah Mae
Sunday 6 August	Steps	Melanie C, Louise Redknapp, B*Witched, The Vivienne, Harley Moon Kemp
Saturday 3 August	Girls Aloud	Billy Porter, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, House Gospel Choir, Beth McCarthy
Sunday 4 August	Mika	S Club, Gabrielle, Björn Again, Danny Beard
Saturday 2 August	Mariah Carey	Loreen, Confidence Man, Ashnikko. Slayyyter, Absnt Mind	Dance Stage Bimini Bon-Boulash, Katy B
Sunday 3 August	Sugababes	Andy Bell, Ultra Nate, Beth Ditto, Sonique, Natalie Imbruglia, Will Young, Nxdia	Dance Stage Fatboy Slim, Eliza Rose

Gallery

File:Kylie Minogue headlining Brighton Pride 2019.jpg|2019 - Kylie Minogue headlining Brighton Pride File:Crowd during the Pride in the Park event at Brighton Pride 2019.jpg|2019 - Crowd during the Pride in the Park event at Brighton Pride File:Crowds at Brighton Pride 2019.jpg|2019 - Crowds at Brighton Pride File:Crowds outside Bar Broadway at Brighton Pride 2019.jpg|2019 - Crowds outside Bar Broadway at Brighton Pride File:BrightonPride2022.jpg|2022 - Ukraine attendees at Brighton Pride

References

"All About Pride".
(6 August 2018). "Brighton Pride 2018 was biggest one yet".
(6 August 2018). "Police say 500,000 people flocked to the city during Pride weekend – Brighton & Hove Independent".
(24 August 2019). "How Pride brings the money pouring in".
Bowden, Geoffrey. (10 September 2013). "How Brighton has boosted tourism with Pride, marathons, rugby and Turner".
Simon Chilton. "Brighton Ourstory :: A History of Lesbian & Gay Brighton Chapter 3: Out of the Closet, 1967–87".
(4 August 2021). "Brighton Pride: Unseen images of 1973 gay march discovered". BBC News.
Simon Chilton. "Brighton Ourstory :: A History of Lesbian & Gay Brighton Chapter 4: A Community Comes of Age, 1988–2001".
(25 June 2016). "Putting the 'T' in LGBT Brighton Pride 2002". Gscene.com.
"Gender Diversity is a Network Hub of LINKS for easy access to Information".
(14 November 2013). "Will Brighton Pride come before a fall?".
(7 March 2012). "Brighton Pride 2012 confirmed". Pink News.
James Ledward. (26 September 2019). "Brighton Pride 2019 raises £217,432.50 for local good causes". Gscene.com.
"Brighton Pride COVID-19 announcement".
(3 August 2020). "We Are FABULOSO!". Brighton Pride.
(5 May 2021). "Covid: Brighton Pride 2021 cancelled for second year over virus 'uncertainty'". [[BBC News]].
(8 October 2019). "Brighton & Hove Pride – Pride In The Park". Brighton Pride.

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