Pride 2021: NI's biggest gay nightclub no longer opening for weekend.Two arrested over homophobic attack on Belfast manīut it would seem that would be last meeting of that kind.T-shirt from Belfast's first gay pride on show at the Ulster Museum (Image: Maurice Fitzmaurice) Niall added: “There was some young person there who’s name I don’t recall and he came up with the idea, why spend money to take people away when we could have a gay Pride parade in Belfast to which everybody said ‘we can’t’.”īut Niall said the plucky young man’s attitude was ‘why not?’ and so a seed was planted. “We had this young lad, the person who came up with the idea, challenge other people who had been around for longer at that stage. and before we knew it we were arranging a parade in Belfast and it just metamorphosed itself into existence.” The Belfast man said they learned “many years later” it was a set up with other people involved in “NIGRA who knew exactly what was going to happen”. That first year Niall said “there was probably about 100 people - maybe not even quite as many as that”. Belfast Trust pays gay man £2,000 after Pride posters removed at work.Derry LGBTQ+ rainbow crossing to be Ireland’s first, Council told.
