Balloon Launch

Saturday 16 August 2008

Queer activists invade the Manchester Pride 2008 balloon launch (video)

Watch the six minute video (super-widescreen format!). It includes two minutes of exclusive archive footage of August Bank Holiday 1991.

A trailer to embed and share can be found here on YouTube.

The real facts and figures behind Pride can be found here.

Manchester Pride 2008 opened last night. A group of 18 year olds gathered to (more…)

Filed under: Manchester, Politics, With video — GS @ 8:45 am

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