Bristol Pride
annual festival in Bristol, England
Bristol Pride is an annual LGBTQ pride festival in the city of Bristol that serves South West England, organised by a charity of the same name. The festival is a fortnight of events in the city and concludes with Pride Day on the second Saturday of July. Pride Day includes a walking parade with no vehicles or floats allowed which presently begins in the city's Castle Park and ends at the Lloyds Amphitheatre on the harbourside. Further celebrations have recently been held at a festival site on the Downs. Bristol Pride remains a free-to-attend festival, but encourages entry to the events by donation to enable the festival to continue.
The event initially began in 1977 as Bristol Gay Festival in response to the Whitehouse v Lemon blasphemy court case, and continued yearly, in 1986 becoming Avon Pride under which the first pride march in Bristol took place in 1988. It became Pride West from 1994, though unsuccessful funding applications led to intermittent cancellations of the festival between 1997 and 2000. The final Pride West took place in 2001. After a nine year gap, the festival was revived as Bristol Pride for a 2010 event under a charity of the same name. It has continued yearly, though festivities were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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