The Sunshine after the Rain!!! Review of Lincolnshire Pride 2007

Well Lincolnshire Pride 2007 is now over (big aahhh everyone) and its was a fantastic weekend for the gay community and for Lincoln as a whole!

The weekend was opened on a damp and dreary Saturday by the Mayor of Lincoln, Conversatvie Councillor Hilton Sprat who made the declaration "the council takes a proactive view on equality and diversity and that the equality agenda is right at the front of local politics" - This may come as a surprise to many of the councillors and activists in the local Conservative Party!!! The event kicked off the live music on the open air stage and with the market indoor in the main Engine Shed hall.

The event was timed to run alongside the Lincoln Waterfront festival happening along the river from Pride. In the evening, everyone gathered outside for the main firework display.

Sunday kicked off with better weather and more live music on the open air stage. The crowd then gathered for the Lincolnshire Pride 2007 Dog Show - and before you ask non of the Drag Queens were allowed to enter. The entertainment and music continued until the evening, when we moved indoors for the Lincolnshire Pride Awards 2007 - with Princess Babserella gaining the Special Recognition Awards, Yarborugh School, Lincoln awarded the Anti Homophobic Bullying Award and V-Bar, Skegness and Burlesque Show bar awarded for the best gay-friendly and gay bars respectively. This was then followed by Cabaret entertainment from the V-Bar crew and Princess Babserella, who did a fantastic and fitting finale to the cabaret with Miss Titty Bon-Bon - who worked together on the Lincoln scene for the last 4years.

This weekend was a great promotion and celebration of the diversity in Lincoln and how the different communities can come together and celebrate as one. For those who wish to persecute the gay community and other communities, we will not stand by and let this be done- Britain is one great nation and will continue to be be celebrating the diveristy within with one great and noble community.