{"id":368351,"date":"2025-08-23T23:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368351\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:11:37","slug":"manchester-pride-2025-in-pictures-as-thousands-descend-on-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368351\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Pride 2025 in pictures as thousands descend on city"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pride brings thousands of visitors to the city<\/p>\n

Thousands of people are in Manchester this weekend as the city’s annual Pride festival takes place. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of floats took part in the parade, which this year had the theme of “love”.<\/p>\n

Nelly Furtado is set to headline alongside Brit Award winner Olly Alexander on the Sunday night of the festival, which started yesterday and runs until Monday 25 August.<\/p>\n

Former Little Mix star Leigh-Anne and the bands Sister Sledge and B*Witched will also be taking to stages across the festival. <\/p>\n

Manchester celebrates love for Pride 2025<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of floats and thousands of people took part in the parade<\/p>\n

For 2025, organisers have introduced its first Mardi Gras shows at Mayfield Depot alongside the Gay Village Party.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester’s LGBTQ+ community ambassador, Carl Austin-Behan, said for him the heart of Pride has always been the Gay Village.<\/p>\n

When he went there for the first time in 1997 he said he “was a bit like a kid in a sweet shop”.<\/p>\n

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Pride runs across the weekend until Monday<\/p>\n

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For 2025, organisers have introduced its first Mardi Gras shows at Mayfield Depot alongside the Gay Village Party<\/p>\n

“It’s overwhelming, but it was a feeling of being accepted and the fact that the venues, the people, the community, they drew me in,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said now when other people visit he likes to make sure “it’s as welcoming, open and transparent for people who come now”.<\/p>\n

He added: “The parade is really important as it brings everyone together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Pride brings thousands of visitors to the city Thousands of people are in Manchester this weekend as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080612231524864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368351","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=368351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}