{"id":2476,"date":"2015-03-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-04-25T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T19:00:00","slug":"nottinghamshire-pride-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/03\/nottinghamshire-pride-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottinghamshire Pride 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published August 2014 over on <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nottinghambi.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/nottinghambi.wordpress.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful day! It felt like everyone had come out to join us. I arrived at the parade start point at about 10:30am and was joined by more and more BiTopia members until it was time to start marching. Whilst we were waiting we took photos, played with poi, and even got interviewed by Notts TV! (I\u2019m still not sure if we actually made it onto the news though.) The weather was absolutely boiling but sunny and there was a festival feel in the city centre as the parade snaked slowly round the streets. Some of us held the banner, others handed out stickers and leaflets. Most of us were either wearing or waving bisexual\/rainbow flags. During the parade a few people came up to look at our banner and ask who we are. Some took our picture and a few others stuck around and joined us to walk the rest of the route!<\/p>\n<p>After the parade ended about half of us stayed together to go for lunch, then we wondered round the stalls and stages before heading our separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has experienced biphobic abuse at Prides in the past, I\u2019m always a bit nervous about attending but I didn\u2019t have any problems at this Pride. I was also delighted to discover two of the stalls were selling bisexual related merchandise, as at most Prides I\u2019ve been to there is only gay, lesbian and rainbow merchandise for sale.<\/p>\n<p>These kind of events are so important for bi visibility and reducing bi erasure, so I\u2019m really happy and proud we managed to get such a large presence at Pride. There were about 20 people for the parade, which is amazing considering we\u2019ve only been running for 7 months.\u00a0As I said before, what a wonderful day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/image.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/image.jpeg?w=788\" alt=\"image\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/36\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/36\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=bisexualblogs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=83147982&#038;%23038;post=36&#038;%23038;subd=bisexualblogs&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published August 2014 over on https:\/\/nottinghambi.wordpress.com What a wonderful day! It felt like everyone had come out to join us. I arrived at the parade start point at about 10:30am and was joined by more and more BiTopia members until it was time to start marching. Whilst we were waiting we took photos, played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/25\/nottinghamshire-pride-2014\/\">Continue reading <span>Nottinghamshire Pride 2014<\/span> <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=bisexualblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=83147982&amp;post=36&amp;subd=bisexualblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,393,133,391,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-activism","category-bi-pride","category-bisexuality","category-nottingham-bitopia","category-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}