Birmingham Pride parade could be rescued

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#9739Sat 10/05/08 10:26

 

Just received this email via Birmingham Pride Community Trust

We The University of Birmingham LGBTQ Association believe 'Birmingham Pride' to be the most important event of The Brum LGBT calendar. Pinnacle to this celebration of diversity is, we believe, the Pride Parade.





Pride is a protest. We do 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.



We, like so many others, are unaware of the complete reasons for the cancellation of the parade, however we believe it's not too late to host a simple march taking the aims of pride back to its grassroots. This pride march is possible through the use of the ‘Human Rights Act of 2001' stating a person's right to peaceful protest. The parade needs no budget and this way needs no permission from the council. We should not need to seek permission for our pride parade.





If you too want to reclaim pride we invite you to an open meeting to discuss our plans. This shall be held at Nightingales

WEDNESDAY 14TH MAY

7PM.





Please reply asap if you are interested in attending this meeting, and being involved in the parade march, or for any further information. Hope to see you soon.



University of Birmingham LGBTQ Association

Lgbtq@guild.bham.ac.uk

www.lgbtq.co.uk

– Holly Pike (Chair)

– Emma O'Dwyer (LGBTQ Officer)

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