Leicester Pride 2005
Despite the absence of sunshine for
most of the day, both the parade and
the festival attracted over 12,000
people, an increase on last year.
Photo galleries
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The Parade
Leicester's MPs attend Pride
The Stage
The Festival
Summer of Love Parade
Floats, bands and walking groups paraded
through the centre of Leicester on
Pride day with loads of lovely rainbow
umbrellas to wave. Local newspaper,
the Leicester Mercury brought out a
4 page wrap around feature, as part
of their coverage of the Pride festivities.
There was good coverage of the event
by other local media including all
the radios stations and ITV central
Region.
Live stage all day at the Victoria
Park Festival
Leicester Pride's free, live stage
put on a fabulous line up of local
talent on the Stage.
Singers, bands, dancers - a complete
variety show from 1.30 p.m. through
to 8 p.m. - saw a happy and appreciative
audience gathered in front of the crush
barriers.
Dance Tent
Top local DJs got hundreds of feet
moving in the Dance Tent with their
variety of dance anthems, from Asian
through to Rock, as well as the dance
classics that you love so much. See
which DJs were on the line-up.
2005 Photogallery
slide shows
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and watch. When your finished just
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The
Parade
The
Festival
The
Stage
Leicester's
MPs attend Pride
The
After-parties
Press Released 2005
Release in Word format 
All three Leicester MPs to speak
at Pride (14th June)
All three Leicester MPs have accepted
our invitation to speak at the opening
ceremony of Leicester Pride on Saturday
25th June.
Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt (Leicester
West), Sir Peter Soulsby (Leicester
South) and Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
will be giving addresses of welcome
at the opening of the Pride Festival
on Victoria Park.
They will be speaking from the stage
at about 14:00 hrs.
Press
release  PDF
format
Brazilian-based samba percussion
course (30th May).
Sambando Leicestershire will be running
a HOT PINK Leicester Pride, four week
course. This will be for beginners
in Brazillian-based samba percussion.
Full details: release
in MS Word, or release
in Acrobat PDF
World Record Umbrella Wave at Pride
(19th May)
Press
release 19th May 2005 - Word
format
Current news
Leicester
gears up for gay marriages - news
from the Leicester Mercury and
our own page
on civil partnerships in Leicestershire is
now live.
Leicester
Gay Centre faces financial uncertainties
- news from the BBC
Lesbians
describe how the Gay Centre played
a positive role in their lives -
news from the BBC
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