“I’ve been to LGBTQ+ events and I’ve been discriminated against. I’ve been ignored and dismissed simply because I’m Black and they’re white,” says Koi Buckley, a 20 year old content creator from Birmingham. This is exactly why UK Black Pride exists, to give queer people of colour a place to express themselves free of racism and after a two year break from in-person celebrations, UK Black Pride is back. On 14 August, Europe’s biggest Pride celebration for queer people of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Caribbean heritage returns, in the new location of Queen Elizabeth Park, Stratford.
The tireless work of LGBTQ+ rights activists over the past 50 years has meant that Pride celebrations have broken into the mainstream and many towns and cities across the UK now each hold their own celebrations. However,
