A week of Margate Pride ends with huge parade
06:00, 09 August 2019
A parade through the streets will bring Margate Pride to an end after a week of fun-filled activities.
The colourful procession tomorrow will celebrate diversity, love and the LGBT community.
Colour and noise is expected to take over the town when the rainbow flags are waved through the streets.
Margate Pride, which is now in its fourth year, culminates with the annual parade.
The route sets off from the Walpole Bay Hotel at 2pm, along the clifftop through Cliftonville, before winding down the hill towards the town centre and along the seafront to the Clock Tower at the Main Sands.
Peter Tatchell will lead the rally in the piazza near the Turner Contemporary from 3pm, before the party continues into the night.
Celebrations will see the town painted red, yellow, blue and pink, with the official after-party for the parade taking place at Dreamland, where Spice Girl Melanie C will perform alongside Sink The Pink.
Ahead of the main events, a range of activities and shows will take place throughout the town.
Margate Pride co-ordinator Tommy Poppers will be presenting a unique storytelling show at the Tom Thumb Theatre and is expected to conjure a contemplative mood for the week ahead.
Dreamland is hosting its own themed week to get involved with Pride.
The Rainbow Week programme is celebrating all things “colourful, cute and camp” in the build up to Saturday’s parade.
There will be a dress-up screening of Spice World The Movie and the new Tina Turner inflatable head artwork, dance workshop and more.
Visit the Pride website for the full programme.
To see all the other Pride events happening in Kent this summer, click here
