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Plymouth Celebrates 30th Anniversary Rainbow Flag

The 30th anniversary of the Rainbow Flag is to be celebrated during this year’s annual Lord Mayor’s Day Parade, in Plymouth.

The flag was used for a gay freedom day parade in San Francisco in 1978 and has come to be accepted worldwide as a symbol of support for the LGBT community.

Plymouth will use a Rainbow Flag theme for its entry in this year’s city parade on 17 May, for which the Lord Mayor has chosen the theme "The people and diverse communities of Plymouth."

An open invitation has been issued by the committee of 'Plymouth prideevent 2008' for LGBT communities’ families and friends to join its float in the parade, which will be bedecked with Rainbow Flags.

Plymouth prideevent 2008 also organises the region’s largest annual Pride event, a free entry one-day event in Plymouth Guildhall, which will this year take place on Saturday 7 June.

The event celebrates diversity in Plymouth and the wider area of the region, and awareness of the day will be raised by participation in the Lord Mayor’s Parade.

It will also benefit from a revived closer working relationship with the reconstituted Plymouth Pride Forum, which is a separate organisation supporting the city’s LGBT communities.

Together with a number of other city agencies and statutory authorities, the two Pride groups have been involved in a review of the services available to LGBT communities and identifying gaps in services and how they can be met.

Plymouth prideevent 2008 will feature a comprehensive exhibition on the history of LGBT communities, including Holocaust Memorial Day, and information about famous people in history who were either lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans.

The day-long event is again being planned as a fun day for LGBT communities’ families and friends and is likely to attract many visitors to the city from all over the country.

Attractions will include boy band Billiam, who are the official support act for Girls Aloud Tangled Up tour 2008, a samba band, a Madonna tribute singer, belly dancers, rodeo bull, sumo suits, a bungee run, line dancing, and street and circus skills entertainers.

On the more serious side there will be a public forum involving police, health, and city council representatives.

The event will raise funds to support organisations in the city’s LGBT communities.

For more information on how to join the committee or help out on the day go to www.plymouthprideevent.co.uk, email info@plymouthprideevent.co.uk or telephone 07753 339965.

Author: Joanne Oatts

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