Manchester Pride
August 17 to 27
Spanning nearly two weeks, Manchester‘s Pride includes the excellent Pride Fringe Festival, featuring more than 40 performances, exhibits, and events; the Big Weekend, a Friday-to-Monday street extravaganza in the city’s renowned Gay Village (setting for the original UK “Queer as Folk” series); and the Saturday parade, beginning at 1pm on August 25, and taking the theme “Queer’d Science” in honor of code-breaking British homo hero Alan Turing.