Manchester Pride is an annual Gay Pride celebration held in the city of Manchester, United Kingdom. It is one of the longest running in the country and attracts thousands of visitors to the city's Gay Village, which centres around Canal Street, each year. The event comprises a Pride march, and several days of various arts, music and cultural events all over the city as well as a festival during the August bank holiday weekend within the gay village itself.

Original objectives for the birth of Manchester's Pride celebrations were to raise awareness around the legal and political struggles faced by the LGBT community and to raise funds for local charities. The first "gay pride" event in Manchester was held in 1990. EuroPride was hosted in Manchester in 2003, and Since 2004 the title "Manchester Pride" has been adopted.

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