Posts tagged First National Pride
BBC News Covers The UK's First National Pride March Being Recreated

The UK’s first ever National Pride took place in Huddersfield on 4th July 1981. To mark the forty-first anniversary, an immersive theatre event called “The Day The World Came To Huddersfield” restaged the Pride march in Huddersfield Town Centre. Actors joined their audience to become the protesters, shouting slogans and waving placards and telling the stories of the people who marched that day.

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"The Day The World Came To Huddersfield" new short film released online

An unused shop in Huddersfield was transformed into a “pop-out” art gallery for LGBT+ History Month as part of the project to mark the fortieth anniversary of the UK’s first National Pride. Over 100,000 people are estimated to have seen the projections in person. They have now been turned into a new short film available online.

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40th Anniversary of the UK's 1st National Pride marked with huge new arts and archive project

OUTing the Past is delighted to announce its most ambitious queer history arts project to date: “The Day The World Came to Huddersfield”. This is a yearlong performance, archive and photographic exhibition celebration of the UK’s first National Pride. The project runs until autumn 2022 with funding from Arts Council England, Kirklees Council and LGBT History Month

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