{"id":10595,"date":"2022-09-23T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/09\/23\/why-pride-remains-important-in-birmingham-after-25-years\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T07:19:39","slug":"why-pride-remains-important-in-birmingham-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=10595","title":{"rendered":"Why Pride remains important in Birmingham after 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Birmingham Pride, one of the country\u2019s biggest LGBTQ+ festivals, turns 25 this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Since it began in 1997, many LGBTQ+ rights have been won through protest including equal marriage and adoption and the equalisation of the age of consent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-62771744\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">this year\u2019s festival<\/a> is 25 Years of Pride and Protest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC Midlands Today has spoken to three members of Birmingham\u2019s LGBTQ+ community about the importance of Pride and what it means to them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-62993709?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Birmingham Pride, one of the country\u2019s biggest LGBTQ+ festivals, turns 25 this year. Since it began in 1997, many LGBTQ+ rights have been won through protest including equal marriage &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}