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Title: Nottinghamshire Pride 2011
Author: Nottingham Indymedia
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Tags: pride nottinghamshire_pride lgbt lgbtq sexuality gay lesbian bisexual
Neighbourhoods: nottingham forest_rec market_square

On Saturday July 30th, Nottingham’s LGBT community and others gathered for Nottinghamshire (no longer merely Nottingham) Pride. This year, the march preceding the main festivities went from Market Square to the Forest Rec.

On the newswire: Nottinghamshire Pride 2011 | Notts Uncut Newsletter – The Pride Edition!

Prevented from marching down Mansfield Road by the ongoing gasworks, the march made its way through various back streets. Despite the bizarre route, the procession was well attended and colourful, with the usual mix of drag queens, young people and marching band supplemented by assorted local dignitaries.

Despite its obvious popularity, the event has clearly had the same problems with funding affecting so many of Nottingham’s cultural events (see also carnival, now reduced to one day, and Mela which has been assimilated into the Riverside Festival). This may go some way to explaining the prominence of corporate sponsors including EOn.

Links

Nottinghamshire Pride
www.nottinghamshirepride.co.uk


behindthemask 2010-08-01	like the feature so far. i guess i’d be tempted to not include anything about the fundies in the abstract – they only want a bit of attention and i don’t think they really deserve it. also, should we copy and paste a bit more description about the meetings in the main body?


potemkinvillager 2010-08-05	all sounds sensible to me. I’ve been making these ‘composite’ features increasingly short, but we should probably think what we want to do in the long-run. Also when do we want to put this live? Friday?


behindthemask 2010-08-06	just to add – you’ve probably seen some of the muslim-bashing comments i’ve had to hide on the article. so probably minimising the importance of the counter-protest would be good.


potemkinvillager 2010-08-06	Yeah. Will try and look at this later so it’s good to go after Tash gets his images up sometime Saturday…