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The huge Manchester Pride Parade will return over the August Bank Holiday weekend in 2023 - and the theme for this year's event has now been announced. The parade is one of the most anticipated parts of the annual Manchester Pride festival, which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and culture.
Manchester Pride has today announced that the theme for the 2023 Manchester Pride Parade will be Queerly Beloved, as the charity aims to show the power of love, and celebrate love for ourselves and for the LGBTQ+ community, placing those more marginalised at the forefront. The organisation is calling on the community and allies to come together for the city's biggest parade which will take place on Saturday, August 26.
The Queerly Beloved theme has been chosen to celebrate love in the 10th anniversary year of marriage equality in the UK after the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act was passed on 17 July 2013. The act enabled civil partners to convert their partnership to a marriage, if they wish; and enabled individuals to change their legal gender without having to end their marriage.
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Mark Fletcher, CEO of Manchester Pride, said: “We’re very excited to announce this year’s theme for the Parade. Queerly Beloved celebrates the wins for the LGBTQ+ community but also poses the question: how far have we really come?
“We will be marching for love, and our message is clear: our love is powerful, our love is resistance, and love should be celebrated for all.”
The Parade is one of the festival’s most highly anticipated events, as thousands of people march proudly together through the streets of Manchester in front of tens of thousands of supporters cheering them along the
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