Liverpool Pride festival to move to Pier Head from city's gay quarter
Liverpool Pride LIVERPOOL Pride is to move its main festival site to the Pier Head for this year’s event on August 6.
Last year’s inaugural event for the Merseyside gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community was held in the heart of the city’s gay quarter around Dale Street.
Organisers said they were moving the event because the River Mersey waterfront was more “financially viable” in the current economic climate.
Tommy McIlravey, chair of Liverpool Pride, said: “Obviously, we were disappointed to have to move out of Dale Street and the gay quarter but, like just about every charity at the moment, we have had to tighten our belts in order to survive.
“Closing such a huge area of the city centre is a difficult and expensive operation, so we had to look at a range of alternative spaces for Liverpool Pride, including some outside the city centre.
“We are delighted to be able to use the Pier Head for Liverpool Pride 2011. It is a wonderful space and part of the iconic waterfront of Liverpool that is recognisable throughout the world. Being there is a real symbol of how much Merseyside is behind the Liverpool Pride event.”
He said that there will still be some activity taking place in and around the gay quarter, despite the main festival site being moved to the Pier Head.
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