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'History made' at Mid and East Antrim Pride parade in Ballymena
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30/06/2025
Curtis Coburn, chair and founder of Mid and East Antrim Pride speaks about the success of the first ever Pride parade in Ballymena.
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so i'm basically in like a dark room trying to recover from yesterday but
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my heart is just so full of gratitude and i'm still just blown away like i've
00:13
i thought the tears would have ended yesterday but i think just waking up today and seeing
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the pictures and videos and just everything from the event it's just been unbelievable.
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i think it's fair to say that history was made and then some more. we expected
00:35
we expected a good show and like we expected you know spectators to come out and watch but
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we never could have imagined that it would have been on the scale that it was and
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for our very first Pride to have thousands of people involved in a town like Palomina
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it's just so beyond what we ever could have imagined. yeah so many people i have to thank
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obviously our entire committee for being there with me on this wild 10 months or so that we've put into
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planning this um the entire town really um i do want to give thanks to the police for
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allowing us to get around safely and for doing their jobs well um
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yeah i think the protesters were outnumbered and then some just with the amount of love and
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just the celebration of diversity that was on display um and the parade i think really had
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something for everyone there was something in the period that you could identify yourself with and i
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think that's really important and the vibes were just immaculate that's all i can say um i want to thank
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the front page bar for being amazing allies and i know their event last night went so well i know
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charlie's bar had like a pride event on as well and i think that's just amazing obviously we had our
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official after party at the dear arms hotel and that was amazing i want to thank all the queens the king
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dick von dyke legend and paddy walsh dj ray anyone who was involved um robert brown i know was involved in
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the front page of celebrations all weekend what a man what legend uh so yeah just so much gratitude
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and to our marshals also for getting us around safely and and also to our speakers who gave such
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passionate speeches uh before the event kicked off francis uh i know rossa were involved amazing uh nipsa
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uh i feel like i'm missing someone maluhar from the green party sheamus from the stlp um yeah
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such great speeches and really set the tone especially francis i think his his little anecdote about
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growing up in ballymena but not being able to grow up gay in ballymena i think that was very uh touching very
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personal pride's always been a target and as we've seen with uh hashtag slurry gate i think we're going
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with uh i mean do you did you honestly think some slurry was going to put a bunch of culties off
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