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Joy and defiance. Celebration and remembrance. Protest and Pride.

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These were the scenes that coloured Newcastle's Pride Parade at the weekend, as the annual festival returned in its sixth year.

For Elliot Leonard of Warner's Bay, who had brought their playful dog Fletcher with a rainbow on his leash to walk with them, Pride started as a protest - an act of defiantly taking space when it felt like some insisted there was none for them.

Scenes from the 2025 Pride parade on Saturday, October 11. Picture by Marina Neil

"I think that, right now, in the climate that

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