{"id":128133,"date":"2025-05-24T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128133\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:47:12","slug":"thousands-hit-birmingham-pride-2025-as-iconic-parade-brings-explosion-of-colour-to-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128133\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands hit Birmingham Pride 2025 as iconic parade brings explosion of colour to city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Brummies took to the streets this afternoon for Birmingham<\/a> Pride’s 2025 parade.<\/p>\n

The highly-anticipated event is huge in the city calendar and 75,000 revellers are expected in Birmingham until Sunday to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n

Birmingham Pride will take place from Saturday, May 24 to Sunday, May 25 – and tens of thousands of people filled the city centre this afternoon as celebrations got underway.<\/p>\n

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SPOT YOURSELF IN OUR PARADE GALLERY, HERE. <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Watch the parade in the video at the top of this story. <\/b><\/p>\n

Large crowds filed into Centenary Square at around 11am on Saturday May 24 for the Pride parade, which snaked its way through the city centre to Birmingham’s Gay Village.<\/p>\n

Open top buses, fitted-out HGVs and tractors took to the parade route as cheers, drums and squeals rang out.<\/p>\n

Crowds lined the barriers on the parade route, with families in rainbow tops and face paint, glitter and vibrant costumes all cheering.<\/p>\n

Waves of colour rippled down New Street, which was filled with thousands of people coming together in pride, remembrance and protest.<\/p>\n

\"Birmingham<\/p>\n

Birmingham Pride festival 2025 is chance for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to come together and celebrate. Pictured: The parade on May 24<\/p>\n

The thrum of drummers provided a rousing soundtrack for the parade, as well as singers and performers dressed up in rainbow carnival gear.<\/p>\n

The crowds were a mix of young and old, but all passionately taking the opportunity to march for equality and justice.<\/p>\n

Hits from iconic bands like ABBA filled the town centre walkways bringing a fun-filled atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Across the weekend, revellers can expect performances from diverse artists within the community, a candlelit HIV memorial vigil, keynote speakers, community stalls, family-friendly activities and street food.<\/p>\n

More than 40,000 are expected to attend the festival site itself, which is in the heart of the LGBTQ+ village, where music stars will perform for the crowd, in a safe space, free of judgment.<\/p>\n

Clean Bandit, Vengaboys, Cascada and Bananarama are among the artists scheduled to play the main stage at the festival this year.<\/p>\n

\"Birmingham<\/p>\n

Birmingham Pride festival 2025 is chance for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to come together and celebrate. Pictured: Claire Harrison and her daughter Daisy celebrating in the crowds on May 24<\/p>\n

The Wanted 2.0, The Saturdays star Una Healy, Clementine Douglas, Moonchild Sanelly, Kitty Scott-Claus, Catty, Tom Rasmussen, Vicky Jackson (performing as Pink) and the Birmingham Royal Ballet are also taking part in the festivities.<\/p>\n

Those performances are ticketed, you can find out more about admissions here.<\/a><\/p>\n

There were some stunning sights on the parade as it buzzed its way through town and down to Hurst Street.<\/p>\n

Crowds of people taking part in the parade wore vibrant animal masks, blew whistles and waved rainbow and Trans pride flags.<\/p>\n

\"Birmingham<\/p>\n

Birmingham Pride festival 2025 is chance for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to come together and celebrate. Pictured: The parade on May 24<\/p>\n

West Midlands Fire Service and West Midlands Ambulance were also among the city organisations that had floats and staff members take part in the parade.<\/p>\n

Spot yourself in our live gallery from the parade this afternoon, here. <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

You can read more about timings, line-up and road closures in our round up, here.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Brummies took to the streets this afternoon for Birmingham Pride’s 2025 parade. The highly-anticipated event is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,56537,748,393,4884,56538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-128133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-pride","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-pride-parade","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114563124449766254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}