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Manchester Pride parade 2010 (video)

GS — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:47 +0000

The first part of last Saturday’s Manchester Pride parade.

I’ll put up the rest when I have time. Editing and encoding long clips takes ages!
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Manchester Pride 2009: Queer Youth Network & Pride Is A Protest (video)

GS — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:08:46 +0000

Queer Youth Network and Pride Is A Protest in the Manchester Pride parade on Saturday.
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Andrew Stokes at Manchester Pride 2009

GS — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:15:56 +0000

Imagine the scene… You’re the Chair of Manchester Pride. It’s one of your busiest days of the year — the Saturday Pride parade — and the entrants are getting ready to move off. Usually you eat healthy stuff but you think, just this once, you’ll sneak into the nearby takeaway and have nasty pie and chips.

Who is the last person you want to bump into, holding a camera, on your way out?
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Liverpool’s Homotopia festival and Police misled into publishing false Manchester Pride parade figure

GS — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:59:37 +0000

Last summer, Trading Standards told the organisers of Manchester Pride to cease publishing material that claimed crowd figures of 200,000 or 250,000 people at the Saturday Pride parade.
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Shopping victims

GS — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:41:34 +0000

I was looking through my high-definition video footage of the 2007 Manchester Pride parade and found this frame which seems to sums up much of what is wrong with our community today.

Pink tank at Manchester Pride 2007 (video)

GS — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:50:54 +0000

Watch the video here.

A pink tank featured in the 2007 Manchester Pride parade. Later I saw it speeding down Oxford Road, still with trans girls on-board, and pulling up at the traffic lights. Which was even funnier.

Activists invade Manchester Pride 2007 parade in protest at Pride commercialisation

GS — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:15:11 +0000

25 August 2007, Manchester, England. Activists invaded the annual Manchester Pride parade today in a protest against the commercialisation of this one-time community and fundraising event.

Caribbean Carnival targeted with policing costs

GS — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:49:47 +0000

Since 2004 Manchester has had two Caribbean Carnivals. The one in July that has run for decades is now ignored by Manchester City Council. Go to the Council information centre and they will actually deny that there are two Caribbean Carnivals in Manchester each year.

Chinese New Year celebrations, Manchester (video)

GS — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:03:29 +0000

Visit the page to view the Flash video or download: Quicktime (mov)

I bought a new digital camera on Friday (more about that coming soon) and I went out to test it on Sunday. The Chinese New Year parade was just beginning as I walked up Princess Street, so I shot this video.

Manchester Pride exaggerates Parade crowd figures by 500%

GS — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:37:53 +0000

250,000 do not watch the Parade as the organisers claim. The true figure is ‘tens of thousands’ and here is the proof.