{"id":57362,"date":"2026-07-25T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/belfast-pride-crowds-gather-for-this-years-parade\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:13:29","slug":"belfast-pride-crowds-gather-for-this-years-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/belfast-pride-crowds-gather-for-this-years-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Pride: Crowds gather for this year&#8217;s parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Belfast Pride parade is making its way through the city&#8217;s streets.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now in its 35th year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/belfastpride.com\/guide\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">10-day festival<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> began last Friday with a programme of cultural events, nights out and discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The theme this year is Love in Every Colour, which the festival says &#8220;recognises the courage of those individuals who came before us and the rising voices of those today who work tirelessly to protect our future and our beautiful community&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pride parade departed from Custom House Square at 13:00 BST and will finish at Victoria Street at about 16:00. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn Millar, co-chairperson of Belfast Pride, said about 8,000 people were taking part in this year&#8217;s parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that in total, more than 80,000 people including spectators attended the event last year, and she would be &#8220;really happy&#8221; if the same number attended on Saturday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yv4gprn3xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belfast Pride parade is making its way through the city&#8217;s streets. Now in its 35th year, the 10-day festival, external began last Friday with a programme of cultural events, nights out and discussions. The theme this year is Love in Every Colour, which the festival says &#8220;recognises the courage of those individuals who came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[420,6599,11141,2705,8595,380],"class_list":["post-57362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-belfast","tag-crowds","tag-gather","tag-parade","tag-pride","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57364,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57362\/revisions\/57364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}