Pictures show scenes of revellers for Portsmouth Pride with spectacular parade and colourful event in Southsea

People lined the streets of Southsea as Portsmouth Pride came to the city for the first time on Saturday.

Portsmouth was chosen out of more than 260 community-run Pride organisations across the UK to host the the festival which featured a colourful parade along Southsea Esplanade and a huge free event on Southsea Common featuring music, entertainment and lots of fun.

The event shone a “national spotlight on the work of a volunteer-run local charity organising one of the biggest, completely free and unfenced Pride events in the country", said Portsmouth Pride.

The festival was a celebration of LGBTQ+ communities that saw thousands attend.

See pictures below of the event and a video above by My Portsmouth By Drone.

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