{"id":722830,"date":"2026-08-01T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722830\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:40:09","slug":"brighton-pride-revellers-say-they-are-dancing-the-day-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722830\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Pride revellers say they are &#8216;dancing the day away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brighton Pride has kicked off for its 35th anniversary, and hundreds of thousands of people are expected in the city over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_sussex\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Sussex<\/a> before the start of the parade, Jack Goddard, from the LGBTQ+ choir Rainbow Chorus, said it was a &#8220;joyous&#8230; celebration&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to be dancing the day away,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be brilliant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pride has previously been criticised as having become a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd97z9zqwnxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive money-making exercise<\/a>&#8221; that &#8220;doesn&#8217;t necessarily feel like a space for the LGBT community anymore&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the event, which started at 11:00 BST, Regan Burree, who works for Greater Thameslink Railways, told the BBC that Pride was important. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Particularly coming from the railway, it&#8217;s such a male-dominated environment, or perceived to be, but actually that&#8217;s not the case anymore,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so diverse now &#8211; this is us all celebrating it here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton Pride has kicked off for its 35th anniversary, and hundreds of thousands of people are expected in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}