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‘Pride is ours and we want to make it that way again': The protesters aiming to reclaim the roots of Manchester Pride

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The weekly email brings you all the latest news from the LGBTQ+ community plus exclusive interviews direct to your inbox The first ever gay Pride parade took place in the streets of New York on June 28, 1970.

The event coincided with the one year anniversary of the Stonewall riots - a police raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar - and would ultimately go on to spur a worldwide movement and an ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ equality.

Fifteen years after the New York parade, Manchester hosted it’s very first Pride event - with bars raising money for local organisations and donating soft furnishings to hospital wards where patients were being treated for HIV and AIDS. Read more: Pensioners left stranded on M6 'for 12 hours' until 2am after breaking

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