Pride 2003: The Park (6 stories)

title	Pride 2003: The Park (6 stories)
event:	Brighton Pride
review date	Saturday, 9 August 2003
words by	James Brooks

REALBrighton review

What a difference to last year! Rather than mud-wrestling competitions, the Park was packed with more than 90,000 smiling revellers, beating London Pride hands down. In fact Pride in Brighton & Hove now stands as the most successful Pride in the country! Only Europride can hope to top it, but then Manchester City Council do dig deep to help fund it!

There were few complaints this year over the lack of main stage... I guess once you've seen Petula and a few forgotten Big Brother rejects, you've seen them all.

Although REALBrighton's float missed out on the prizes, we think we more than made up for it in enthusiasm as the boys strutted their stuff! The REALBrighton sponsored Information Point on the park was busy and attracted many friends and supporters of the RB. Of course, as Official Photographers, the flashing around the park was impressive - check out the pics!

A fabulous Pride - the best - see you at Winter Pride!!!

latest captions who was snapped?

"It's madness. Mobile madness."

Said by Samwell on Fri, 14th November 2003.

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Click the VIP's name to see where we caught'em!

AlanH
Alistair
apok
Casper
chris166uk
diablo
DJPotts

Girlyrob
Heidi
jennifer
Lola_L
lurpak
Ollie

Samwell
Scampy
star_boi
Timmy
Torsten
toxic

the photos...

Pride People
photos by Doug Craib

The day just could NOT have been any better. Beautiful weather, and a park full of gorgeousness. Doug took his camera around to see what he could see...

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Preston Park Heat
photos by Sam Milford

Alistair and Simon share some of their park moments with REALBrighton...

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Bec in the Park
photos by Bec

Not to be missed... Bec ventures to the Candy Bar, explores the market stalls, stops in at Popstarz, has a play at the fairground and ends up getting sweaty in the Wild Fruit tent.

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Markie at the Parkie
photos by Mark Brock

It's taken him this long to recover, but we've finally got our hands on his photos. He was in the Wild Fruit tent, he was roaming the park, he was everywhere at once. Our story starts, as many stories of the day did, on the REALBrighton.com float...

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More mysterious park pics
photos by Sam Milford

It's baffling. I thought we'd got through all the photos, but no. These gems seem to have escaped me by hiding on my laptop for a week. They're beauties and well worth looking through. And if you know who took'em then please let us know!

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Glyn's Muscles
photos by Glyn Jackson

Well, okay, not Glyn's muscles themselves, obviously, because he's far too shy to show them off for the camera. In fact these are photos of muscles that Glyn shot at Preston Park. You know what he's like when he sees rippling abs and bulging biceps...

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