Manchester Pride 2024 will get underway with the annual parade and performances from Rita Ora and Loreen today
Speaking about this year's festival last night, Manchester Pride CEO told a crowd at an opening event:
"Manchester Pride is not just an event that takes place once a year, it’s not something we only see as we’re dancing around the Gay Village having a wonderful time, Pride exists all year round." Weeks before this year's Pride, it was reported that a number of acts on the line-up had dropped out due to Pride’s main sponsorship Booking.com, which has been alleged to have listings on its website located within the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
"We can always be better, we can always do more, what we do not do is target our further marginalised communities, harass them and bully them so that the platform that we thought hard for, for the last five years, is removed from them performing. That is not what we stand for at Pride, and this is a time to come together, Manchester Pride."
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