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The first Birmingham Gay Pride Weekend took place on the 8 – 9 July 1972, one week after the first London Gay Pride Week, itself the first Gay Pride Rally to take place outside the United States.

Although " hastily arranged and not very well conceived ", the Birmingham event featured dances, two " Gay Days " in Cannon Hill Park and a march up New Street from the Bull Ring, culminating in a small rally on the steps of Birmingham Town Hall.

According to one of its organisers " Our aim was to announce ourselves and let Birmingham know gay people were here: ‘ Here we are and here we ’ ll stay ’" Two or three further such events were organised by Birmingham Gay Liberation Front until the organisation declined in the mid 1970s.