Liverpool’s LGBT+ community came together today, alongside its allies and supporters for Liverpool’s first ever online March with Pride.
While Liverpool’s Pride events were cancelled earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers at the LCR Pride Foundation chose to run a programme of online events instead.
Included in the programme was the city region’s first ever online march, dubbed the MarchOnline, which took place earlier today July 25, the day the annual Pride in Liverpool festival should have taken place.
Liverpool’s March with Pride has long been a poignant start for the city’s Pride celebrations, each year allowing the LGBT+ community and all its allies to come together to march in solidarity and protest against the prejudice and inequalities that the LGBT+ community continues to face in the UK and across the globe.
From 12pm today, the virtual march streamed on Facebook and YouTube, with messages from the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, councillor Anna Rothery, LCR Pride Foundation interim CEO, Andi Herring and Steve McFarlane, Trustee of the Michael Causer Foundation.
Other march messages included those from Liverpool FC manager Jurgen Klopp and Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram.
Andi Herring, LCR Pride Foundation co-founder and interim CEO, said: “The online march allowed us to come together virtually to celebrate and display the beautiful diversity of the Liverpool City Region’s LGBT+ community, and highlight its continuing fight against prejudice and inequalities faced here in the UK and across the globe.
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“At a time when our Government is seeking further ‘research’ into conversion therapy that has already been proven damaging to LGBT+ people before it will ban the practice, and when thousands of trans people are fearful for their rights as we await information on reforms to the GRA, standing together in solidarity and protest has never been more important.”
