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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sirin Kale

The people making a difference: meet the founder of the UK’s first Trans Pride

Trans pride campaigner Sarah Savage outside the new Trans Pride Centre in Brighton.
Trans pride campaigner Sarah Savage outside the new Trans Pride Centre in Brighton. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

The night before the first-ever Trans Pride Brighton in 2013, Sarah Savage was so nervous she couldn’t sleep. What if nobody turned up? What if the weather was awful? What if the performers flaked?

She needn’t have worried: 27 July dawned bright and clear, and hundreds of trans, non-binary, intersex people and their allies filled the streets of Brighton for the UK’s first ever Trans Pride. It kicked off an ongoing series that, for Savage, a 40-year-old author and co-founder of Trans Pride Brighton, feels is not just an event but a homecoming.

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