{"id":732071,"date":"2026-08-09T02:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:24:15","slug":"american-actress-gina-gershon-and-artist-tracey-emin-join-huge-crowd-for-margate-pride-parade-the-isle-of-thanet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732071\/","title":{"rendered":"American actress Gina Gershon and artist Tracey Emin join huge crowd for Margate Pride parade \u2013 The Isle of Thanet News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pridegeasonch-640x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pridegeasonch\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\"\/>Singer and actress Gina Gershon with photographer Carl Hudson<\/p>\n<p>American actress and singer Gina Gershon was among the revellers at today\u2019s Margate Pride.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old has starred in such films as Cocktail, Red Heat, Showgirls, Bound, Face\/Off, The Insider, Demonlover, P.S. I Love You, Five Minarets in New York, Killer Joe, House of Versace and, most recently, High Rollers with John Travolta.<\/p>\n<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"220524\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theisleofthanetnews.com\/2026\/08\/08\/american-actress-gina-gershon-and-artist-tracey-emin-join-huge-crowd-for-margate-pride-parade\/robtraceyginach\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/robtraceyginach.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,555\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"robtraceyginach\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Carl Hudson&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/robtraceyginach.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/robtraceyginach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"555\"  data-\/>Photo Carl Hudson<\/p>\n<p>She was at the Pride parade with artist and Margate resident Tracey Emin for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Gershon is regarded as a\u00a0gay icon\u00a0for her roles in films such as\u00a0Bound, Prey for Rock &amp; Roll, and\u00a0Showgirls.<\/p>\n<p>She also has numerous TV credits including recurring roles in\u00a0Riverdale\u00a0portraying the role of Jughead Jones\u2019s mother, Gladys and in series New Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Tracey Emin is also a regular at Margate Pride.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"220513\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theisleofthanetnews.com\/2026\/08\/08\/american-actress-gina-gershon-and-artist-tracey-emin-join-huge-crowd-for-margate-pride-parade\/pride26fl1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pride26fl1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"740,501\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"pride26fl1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Frank Leppard&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pride26fl1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pride26fl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"501\"  data-\/>Photo Frank Leppard<\/p>\n<p>They were among a huge crowd that took part in the annual parade from Walpole Bay Lawns at 1pm, heading along the seafront and arriving at Dreamland in time for the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p>\n<p>This year is the tenth anniversary of Margate Pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer and actress Gina Gershon with photographer Carl Hudson American actress and singer Gina Gershon was among the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732071","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=732071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}