SO that's it then, another Manchester Pride disappears over the horizon in a flurry of rainbows, glitter and candlelight.

And from Will Young's plastic bodystocking to Fleur East's protruding buttocks, from rippling Roman soldiers to leather-bound man bears, from Edwina Curry doing a jig to Jeremy Kyle administering a bollocking (to a bunch of bible-waving protesters), Manchester Pride 2016 is one likely to stick long in the memory.

And while there's hundreds upon thousands of images that sufficiently capture the essence of this year's Big Weekend, here's 50 that had us chuckling...

(image credits: Chris Keller-Jackson and Carl Sukonik)

 

Is that Edwina Curry? It is, it's Edwina bloody Curry!
 
 
 
"Isn't that you Pat?" (Councillor Pat Karney reviews an old publication)
 

 

When your fare does a runner (but you keep smiling because it's Pride)

 
 
...when you've dodged your fare
 
 
 
This? Oh just something I picked up at Affleck's (Councillor Carl Austin-Behan pre-parade)
 
 
 
When a bird's just crapped on your stage coat (MNEK, main stage)
 
 
 
...and now for the results of the DNA paternity test (Jeremy Kyle speaks with Pride CEO Mark Fletcher)
 
 
 
Call me, yeah? (He's not going to call me...)
 
 
 
Michael Stipe goes incognito
 
 
 
When brekkie is a tin of Fosters
 
 
 
When you ask for Batman but get rainbow face
 
 
 
Who brings a kettle to a club?
 
 
 
Yeah she's got a kettle, but I'm a little teapot (Dean Mac, main stage)
 
 
 
When you can't decide between Dick Lane and Slack Bottom
 
 
 
 
When you've bagged the best seat in the house
 
 
 
When you're Absolutely Fabulous
 
 
 
When you're hotter than a men's only sauna
 
 
 
When AC/DC drops before Will Young
 
 
 
'How's this one go again?' (Anne-Marie, main stage)
 
 
 
When they play a new one...
 
 
 
When you try to look 'ard (but forgot about the sparkles)
 
 
 
When Spiderman's chasing you down with your own heels
 
 
 
When the dog's been at your tights again (Fleur East, main stage)
 
 
 
'Dave, you've got a little something in your beard'
 
 
 
When you're three weeks late for Comic Con
 
 
 
When you've forgotten your sodding CDs (Judge Jules, Gaydio Dance Arena)
 
 
 
When you've gone full Burberry and don't give a s**t
 
 
 
'Sorry lads, my mask has gone walkies'
 
 
 
When Will Young's been on the shandy (Will Young crowd surfs the main stage)
 
 
 
When you've lost your crew (Sophie Ellis Bextor, main stage)
 
 
 
Free cheese, FREE CHEESE!
 
 
 
Do you even lift, bro?
 
 
 
'It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane'
 
 
 
Is this the way to Royston Vasey?
 
 
 
When you've won an award for best costume... but your bloody helmet doesn't fit
 
 
 
Getting down in a hospital gown (Will Young, main stage)
 
 
 
When you've just stepped off the set of Orange Is The New Black
 
 
 
When a shark nicks your ball
 
 
 
Dawson Creek chic
 
 
 
Anyone seen my face wipes?
 
 
 
When there's no way the rain is ruining your do
 
 
 
Anyone seen my dogs?
 
 
 
...erm not those dogs
 
 
 
LADS, LADS, LADS
 
 
 
...and not all princesses are girls!
 
 
 
Ever seen a drummer scared of a symbol?
 
 
 
That time Jesus joined the Man Bears
 
 
 
When your heels are killing and you need some flats

 
 
Of course there's a pink confetti cannon...
 
 
 
 
(image credits: Chris Keller-Jackson and Carl Sukonik)
 

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