{"id":3446,"date":"2008-08-24T01:41:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/24\/manchester-pride-08\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T01:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:41:03","slug":"manchester-pride-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/24\/manchester-pride-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Pride 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pride01.jpg\" alt=\"pride01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Cruz bus flaunts its giant flag.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesterpride.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">that time of year again<\/a> as Manchester gives over its city centre to the flamboyant hordes. I was surprised that the afternoon weather\u2014which has been singularly dismal this year\u2014managed to be bright and even slightly warm while the Parade was in progress. Yes it&#8217;s August but this summer has seen temperatures struggle to rise above 17\u00baC and we&#8217;ve had continual rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pride02.jpg\" alt=\"pride02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Canal Street throng. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the Parade the Gay Village streets were insanely crowded, too much so, it was impossible to move much of the time. That aside, there was a good atmosphere as there always is in gay crowds. (Or is that just my bias?) Roisin Murphy is playing the main stage on Sunday evening so I may stick around if the weather holds. As I type this it&#8217;s raining heavily\u2014again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pride03.jpg\" alt=\"pride03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Numerous drag queens in evidence. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65005488@N00\/2791143100\/\" target=\"_blank\">a shirtless guy on stilts<\/a>&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/25\/over-the-rainbow\/\">Over the rainbow<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/01\/london-pride\/\">London Pride<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/19\/sao-paulo-pride-2006\/\">S\u00e3o Paulo Pride 2006<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cruz bus flaunts its giant flag. It&#8217;s that time of year again as Manchester gives over its city centre to the flamboyant hordes. I was surprised that the afternoon weather\u2014which has been singularly dismal this year\u2014managed to be bright and even slightly warm while the Parade was in progress. Yes it&#8217;s August but this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/24\/manchester-pride-08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Manchester Pride 08&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,55,5,12],"tags":[517],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-events","category-gay","category-photography","tag-manchester"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-TA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}