Liverpool Pride Parade 2010 | Liverpool Pride March 2010 (Photo from Wikipedia)

After 10 years, Liverpool, United Kingdom is finally holding its pride march for 2010, organizers announced.

Liverpool Pride 2010 is scheduled on August 7 to avoid conflict with other gay festivities. Despite a decade of pride parade absence in the area, Liverpool has not stopped sending off positive rainbow energy with Homotopia, an LGBT arts festival that has been celebrated since 2004.

What may have triggered the revival of rainbow pride among locals is the series of gay-hate killings in the past 18 months. In August last year, 18-year old Michael Causer died from beating in a case that police labeled as a homophobic attack. The case judge later said that actions of the convicted suspect James O’ Connor were not motivated by homophobia. That October, 20 teenagers attacked police-in-training James Parkes, leading to a fractured skull.

Liverpool Pride 2010 activities will kick off five days after Causer’s second death anniversary. While the gay-hate crimes are nothing but deplorable, this only proves the LGBTQ community’s resiliency and talent to turn things — even awful things — around despite all odds.

Reference: Pink News.

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