Gay Pride parade cancelled

THE largest gay and lesbian event in the country organised by Birmingham Pride will be without its crowd-pulling party piece this year - the famous parade that winds round the city centre and ends in the gay village.

A series of disagreements over the start time of the annual street parade has led organisers to scrap the parade.

However, organisers have pledged that the Spring Bank Holiday weekend event on May 24 and 25 - the 12th annual Birmingham Pride festival – will be as awesome and as outrageous as ever with plenty of fun and frivolity.

Traditionally known as the Mardi Gras parade, the spectacle has always started outside the Town Hall in Victoria Square and ended in the Gay Quarter.

Phil Oldershaw, Birmingham Pride spokesman said: "There was pressure on us this year to put back the parade until early evening rather than in the afternoon, which is when we’ve always held it.

 Gay Pride parade cancelled
BirminghamMail.net, UK