A huge parade from Walpole Bay to Dreamland marked the annual Margate Pride yesterday (August 10).
Locals and visitors in colourful outfits, waving flags and banners, streamed along the route, passing Eastern Esplanade, Turner Contemporary, Sundowners, the clock tower and then turning through to the Dreamland car park entrance.
Dreamland Drag Party headlined on the Scenic Stage in the evening, with LGBTQ+ talent including the international DJ Jodie Harsh, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’s Bimini and Raven Mandella.
Other performers included Amy Zing, B2B, Harry Gay, Dame Jame, Janet District Council plus special appearances from Shelly Grotto, Chai La-they and Pretzel Cage.
During the daytime, the park hosted activists and queer community leaders, speaking about the importance and significance of pride. Guests included Shiv, Margate Black Pride, Parental Acceptance, Para Pride, LGSM, Traveller Pride, Queer Refugees Unite and Dyke March.
It’s amazing that LGBGT gets a bigger parade than the Margate parade last week ,and it’s all weekend, things need to change, it should be the same for everybody not for just one group
Margate Pride is a grassroots community event run by local people, not Thanet Council. It started off small, and has grown from the hard work and effort of people volunteering their time and donating their money. It’s grown because people love it. No-one is stopping you, or anyone else from trying to grow Margate Carnival into an event that’s just as big, or even bigger. Get involved, work hard, be the change you want to see in the world.
I saw and heard this parade passing. Very colourful. Very loud. A surprisingly large number of children.
What was deeply concerning though was the cognitive dissonance. Dozens of the flags of the Palestinian authority. No chanting any LGBTQ slogans, but loud drumming and chants about freeing Palestine.
Intersectionalism at its most dissonant. Do these people not understand what Palestinian authorities do to homosexual men? Why would they pollute their own celebration with support for such an overtly homophobic entity and people?
Still. It is a mad world. Most of those people who voted Labour in July thought they’d voted for a left of centre party headed by a middle of the road kind of a guy. When, if they’d done their research, they’d have discovered that before he started climbing the greasy pole of the legal profession he was a Pabloist Trotskyite (search engine?). Inside he still is that person. To the Left of Jeremy Corbyn, but more authoritarian. He has more in common with the S.W.P, which created the Anti-Nazi League, Stop the War Coalition, Hope Not Hate, etc, and use these fronts to groom potential new Far Left activists. They tried it with me when I was involved with StWC.
You’ve been had people!
Enjoy the rest of your Pride celebrations. Just don’t let anyone else corrupt it for you.
Could’nt make it – too much competition from Folk Week. Put the two together = what a place!
It was huge and truly heart warming
What makes me laugh is how many Palestinian flags there are there do the gays not realise that they would be stoned to death for being gay if they were in Gaza or anywhere else in Palestine but yet they still support a country with an appalling attitude to anyone who’s LBGT 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Feel sorry for the kids there getting brainwashed men parading around dressed as women putting on pathetic voices these poor young children will start to think this is how we got to be, at a young age then thinking am I gay am I one of these A-Z genders poor kids there kids don’t need all this in there faces let them grow up
It would have been better to have both parades at the same time, this would have saved council tax, because having two parades it’s twice the cleaning up twice the cost of police and first aiders and twice the council having to pay for staff to clean and then clear equipment away.
Impressive lungs on the lady in the white top next to Emin.