Manchester Pride 2022 line-up announced, with Melanie C, Nadine Coyle and Bimini

The line-up for Manchester Pride’s Gay Village Party has been revealed - with an ‘exciting and diverse’ range of performers including Spice Girls’ Melanie C and Girls Aloud’s Nadine Coyle.

A variety of acts will perform across three different stages - the Alan Turing stage, the MancUnity stage, and the Cabaret Stage. Two trans organisations, Trans Creative and Milk Presents, will kick off the party with Trans Filth and Joy on Friday, August 26.

A number of headliners, DJ’s and performers will perform at the main Alan Turing stage in Sackville Gardens over the weekend, including Melanie C, Nadine Coyle, Charity Shop Sue, and Drag Race UK star Bimini.

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The MancUnity stage at Chorlton Street Car Park will host a variety of takeovers co-designed with some of Manchester’s best promoters and DJs to highlight the best queer talent that Manchester has to offer.

Fat Pride will kick off the stage on August 26, celebrating big bodies with an evening of dancing, partying, showing off and feeling good.

Black Pride MCR will celebrate the black roots of house music, disco, funky house, vocal and tribal, with performances from DJs and iconic dancers from the Northern Vogue Ballroom scene. Some of Manchester’s best female talent will also be taking to the MancUnity stage for the Queer Women’s Takeover including DJ Mix-Stress and DJ Róis, founder of What She Said Club.

The cabaret stage at Sackville Car Park will host a number of incredible cabaret acts, including ‘The Enby Show’, which has been described as an “electric, unique and vibrant” gender-bending variety show that bins the binary and crashes the