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For four days over the August bank holiday weekend, the thousands that attended Manchester Pride 2023 welcomed every single moment of queer joy and celebration - even in the face of a little bit of rain.
Saturday’s Pride Parade (August 26th) - a staple feature of the Pride weekend - began in Deansgate at midday and featured more than 200 floats from organisations, charities, and businesses proudly waving the flag for LGBTQ+ rights and celebrating this year’s parade theme of ‘Queerly Beloved’, to mark 10 years of marriage equality in England and Wales.
As with every Manchester Pride before it, people took the opportunity to dress boldly with colourful and bright outfits. Top fashion trends over the weekend included Barbiecore, crop tops and, naturally, plenty of face glitter.
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Manchester Pride festival is an incredible four-day celebration for LGBTQ+ life that takes place across the city every year over the August Bank Holiday weekend. It took place on 25-28 August 2023. There was no Manchester Pride parade in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID pandemic, returning in 2022.
“This year, especially, there’s a lot of hate against the LGBTQ+ community, and people forget we exist. We have a right to live our lives and love who we love, what’s wrong with that? It’s still a protest, the young ones like it as a party but it is still a protest. But Pride is also still about celebrating and equality. It’s nice to see lots of smaller, more local Pride events that are lovely family days out where parents will bring their children. There’s a kind of event for every single age and gender.”
I cant see anything wrong with any of these pictures, yet 2 of them are criminalized in around 70 countries of the world. In at least 10 of them those could be deadly. The earth has 195 countries and only 30 of them allow same-sex marriages.
Thats the reason why we make a big deal out of pride. Thats why its cool that companies suddenly use rainbow colors everywhere and celebrities run around with rainbow flags, even if its not for the -right- reasons. Normalize any and every (consensual) love. Promote empathy. Stop complaining. We dont need "sTrAiGhT mOnTh" bc being straight doesnt get you beat up, jailed or even killed. Cant heal what was never broken.
Love who you are. Theres nothing wrong with you but theres everything wrong with the world.
#pride #weStay
Never felt so alive:
Soo Line 730, a 4-6-2 built by Alco in 1904, sits undercover next to the Canadian National yard in Gladstone, Michigan.
"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities." - Linda Ellerbee
A very special thank you to my wonderful models and friends for bringing this shot to life.
Celebrating the Liverpool Pride Festival this weekend. I have only have two lego figures, and I got lucky this week with the theme...there wasn't much scope for making it mine, but the parades in the city gave me an idea. Confession time, this was the first time I have used a tripod, my brother is showing me how to use some of my dusty camera features, and that's what it's all about. HMM
NJT ALP-46 4609 "Ride with Pride" leads train 6320 out of Summit, NJ, passing the YD-41 protect and a cut of loaded stone cars in the yard. This was its first revenue train wearing its near vinyl wrap, sponsored by Hackensack Meridian Health to show support for Gay Pride Month.
A picture I took several (2014) years ago. Living in Ardnamurchan I haven't seen a live red poppy for so long so this will have to do.
Today we remember: Lest we forget. Today I share the DNA with two soldier's who are both now dead who gave their all for this country, and its people, for the future and for freedom. Both were Scots, both uncles, both now dead, one 106 years ago, one only a year ago, both winners of the Military Cross, third highest (second highest until 1993) award for gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
2nd Lieutenant David Dandi Cairnie, MC, 5th Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action 21st March 1918, aged 31, 1st Battle of the Somme, over the top and leading from the front. I remember the house he grew up in, in Thurso. And his sisters still grieving 60 years later. This piece is particularly descriptive of the battle: www.facebook.com/clyneheritage/posts/40-david-dandie-cair...
Captain George Girdwood Stewart MC, Royal Artillery, lived to the age of 103. Apart from his wartime exploits that won him the Military Cross he became Commissioner of the Forestry Commission, Chairman of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, and served on the National Trust for Scotland. He was a keen skier and as president of the Scottish Ski Club he skied in the Pyrennes on his 100th birthday. Long before Andy Murray became a tennis champion George became Britain's only tennis world champion at the age of 85 in the World Senior's championship. He carried the Olympic flame for the 1012 London Olympics. I went to his 100th birthday party. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/4167478/george...
Two men, who join the list of millions to be remembered. Not just numbers, but real men, remembered with pride, as they showed how to live and to pay the ultimate sacrifice
All the males in our family have stood in uniform at some stage or another and sworn allegiance to the crown, and although my service in uniform ATC, OTC, Queen's Regiment, Gordon Highlanders, Merchant Navy etc, was meagre, I was proud to serve.
COURAGE : www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14063681/lord-ashcroft-c...
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It's Pride month but without the parade owing to the ever spreading pandemic. Enjoy this spontaneous street portrait from the Glasgow Pride parade taken in August 2015. Love is love. Enjoy!
Lady Bo picked this Lily, Netty's Pride, from our garden only this morning, and I pic'd it this afternoon. Nelly and Lady Bo should both feel proud ... :-))
Part of my Deep Reflections series. These are single images that capture the reflecting surface, what is in front of the reflecting surface, and what is behind the reflecting surface. This allows the brain to recombine aspects of 3 different depths in various ways.
Tuesday morning walk around Austin, TX.