Duncan James from boy band Blue and others take to the stage for Wolverhampton Pride
Wolverhampton Pride was rocking with a host of events around the city. Duncan James of band Blue was fully glammed up for the occasion and Denise Van Outen had the crowd dancing with a DJ set. We take a look at the most colourful festival to hit the Wolverhampton streets.
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00:30 How you doing lads? Flash the shirts, come on, flash the shirts. Where's the logo?
00:34 Oh yeah.
00:35 Walls over your bum.
00:36 Walls over your bum, yeah.
00:38 You having a good festival?
00:39 Yeah, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
00:40 Cool. You been to a Pride fest before?
00:42 Yeah, yeah.
00:43 Which, at Walls?
00:44 I've been Manchester, Birmingham.
00:46 Oh, right. How's this comparing then? What do you reckon?
00:49 My hometown's the best.
00:50 Yeah, cool. You can get home after a couple of years, can't you? Easier.
00:53 Exactly, yeah.
00:54 Right, enjoy lads. Thank you.
00:55 Thank you.
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01:14 So, this guy, he has sold millions of albums worldwide, with a little band called Glue.
01:23 You may have heard of them, and I have to say, do you agree? I think he's the best looking one in Glue.
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01:41 How's you doing? See you've met my faithful hand man.
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01:59 Don't get shrunken by the way I look. Don't judge a book by its cover.
02:07 I'm not much of a man, but I light up a tree.
02:12 But by night, I want hella, hella love. I'm just a sweet transvestite.
02:20 For a transsexual. Transvestite.
02:30 Let me show you around. Maybe play you a sound. You all look like you're pretty groovy.
02:39 But if you want something digital that's not too abysmal, we can take in a load of a Steve Reeves movie.
02:48 Everybody!
02:52 I just want to thank my mate Denise for giving me such a lovely warm introduction.
02:56 Give a round of applause for Denise. She's got a wicked DJ set lined up for you guys later.
03:02 Have you had a nice day?
03:04 I said have you had a nice day?
03:08 Well, believe it or not, I am in a band called Blue.
03:15 And you know what they say, there is a saying that in every boy band there's always one queer member.
03:23 And honest to God, for years I thought he was Lee Ryan.
03:28 But here I am just like this. How you doing?
03:34 I couldn't come all the way to Wolverhampton to be at Pride without singing a Blue song.
03:39 So, would you like a Blue song?
03:44 I said would you like a Blue song?
03:57 What have I got to do to make you love me?
04:04 What have I got to do to make you care?
04:12 What do I do when lightning strikes me?
04:19 I'm on my way to find it, you're not there.
04:27 What have I got to do to make you?
04:33 Yeah, I'll tell you what, Trixie was performing today for you earlier.
04:36 Trixie Leach did my make-up for me, so thank you Trix.
04:40 I don't get a lot of chance to wear make-up in Blue.
04:44 Actually, that's a lie, because I love sloughing the make-up on.
04:46 This kind of make-up.
04:49 Does anybody out there love putting their make-up on, getting a bit of heels on?
04:53 Fellas, any fellas out there love a bit of drag?
04:57 It's great fun, isn't it?
04:59 I've got the bug, I absolutely love it.
05:01 Now, this is Pride, and I just want to say it's so important for everybody to come out and show your support.
05:07 It doesn't matter if you're anywhere on the LGBTQ+ flag or whether you're a straight ally.
05:12 It's so important now than ever, more than ever, to show your support.
05:16 So, coming out today to your local Pride, honest to God, it is doing so much.
05:21 So, wave those flags, really proud, and let everybody know that it is okay to be your authentic self.
05:28 Hello, my friends.
05:36 It's so good to see you here now on this day of wonderment.
05:40 Where all things are possible in the music.
05:43 What I need you to do right now is to put your hands in the air.
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06:30 Let's go, Pride!
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06:36 Let's go!
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07:41 I'm ready.