University of Sussex brings a splash of colour to Brighton & Hove Pride

More than 80 University of Sussex students, staff and alumni will be celebrating Brighton & Hove Pride - one of the city's annual highlights - on Saturday (4 August) by taking part in the Pride Community Parade. Many others will be lining the route to watch the colourful spectacle. Among the revellers will be Nazia Meem, a member of staff in the Students' Union, who is looking forward to being "a part of something exciting". The parade is one of the biggest and brightest events in Brighton & Hove's diary, with over 300,000 people pouring onto the city's streets as an all-singing, all-dancing carnival of colour wends its way from the seafront to the main festival site in Preston Park. Flamboyant, vibrant and colourful, the music, floats, bands, costumes and dancing combine to offer "a show-stopping spectacle not to be missed". In fact, it's hard to be sure who's having more fun: the onlookers or those in the parade. Business and Management Studies undergraduate Erin Cook, for example, will be back for a second time: "I was part of the parade with Sussex last year and it was honestly one of the best days of my life." Of course, the parade also carries a message of love, unity and support for the local and worldwide LGBTQ+ community.