Brighton Pride 2024 is soon approaching and one of the highlights of the celebration is the parade.

Taking place at 11am on Saturday, August 3 this year hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take it in.

The parade will encompass the event's theme of ‘JOY – Celebrating Life • Spirit • Resilience’.

On the Brighton Pride website, it adds: "The annual Pride LGBTQ+ Community Parade features an array of city charities, community groups, local businesses, blue light services and official Brighton & Hove Pride partners. 

"This free and much loved, colourful carnival of diversity kicks off Saturday’s festivities and lead the way to our main community fundraising event Fabuloso in the Park on Preston Park."

Brighton Pride 2024 parade route map

The parade route will start at Hove Lawns before making its way onto King's Road and then up West Street.

After that, it will follow onto North Street before the longest stretch along London Road.

From there, it will head up to Preston Park where the festival will properly begin with the Pride in the Park event.

Discussing the parade, Brighton Pride adds: "The Pride LGBTQ+ Community Parade is one of the undisputed highlights of the Brighton & Hove Pride weekend and is a glorious showcase of the city’s charities, community groups and small businesses as well as our invaluable emergency services, the NHS and statutory partners.

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"It is one of the biggest and brightest events in Brighton & Hove’s events calendar, with over 300,000 people thronging the city’s streets to participate in and watch the parade of community and campaign groups, and the all-singing, all-dancing carnival of colour as it wends its way from Hove Lawns to Preston Park for We Are Fabuloso, the official Brighton & Hove Pride charity fundraiser."

Brighton Pride will be a two-day event that will have some big names from the music world perform including Girls Aloud and Mika.

Other performers at the celebration will include Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gabrielle, Peaches, Fat Tony, Beth McCarthy, Princess Superstar, DJ Paulette and Lynks.