"I certainly will not be going to anything the so-called 'Official Pride' have miserably mismanaged this year..."I've met friends in the street who have said that they intend to help take over the whole of the beach eastwards of the Palace Pier, all the way to the Marina this year with our fabulous rainbow flag stretched out across the shingle for as far as it can go.
"We can entertain ourselves as we always did at the end of the original Gay Pride marches in London in the early 1970s. We can party all day long and if everyone tunes into the same radio station we can have our music too. We can feed ourselves by bringing our own picnic foods. We can pee in the sea if necessary. We do that anyway.
"We don't have to use the beach; there are dozens of local parks we can also use for local picnics. We never had to ask anyone's permission in the 1970s when we still illegal, so why should we 40 years later...
"We can also reclaim some of our colourful but peacefully anarchic roots.
"Many of our lovers and friends have died since the UK's initial eruption of gay sensibilities, from the LSE four decades ago. Let's celebrate their lives and sacrifices this year with one fabulous, unscripted, uncensored, glorious day out on our very beaches and smaller parks.
"Reclaim our history, give those wonderful younger gays a a different kind of day out to remember...
"At the age of 70 I look forward to many more gay and proud moments here in this lovely city of Brighton.
"Lots of out and proud gay love to everyone."
Michael James.
Letter to Gscene magazine, May 2011.
Excellent stuff.
I hope people will join Michael James in turning their backs on the "official" Brighton Pride - now it has turned its back on the very principles on which Gay Pride was founded.
Fuck 'em - you don't need permission for anything.
On the weekend of Saturday August 13th, let's take over our gay village in Kemptown, our parks, our beach, and our city.
And let's reclaim our Pride.
Nothing can stop us!
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