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# Exeter Pride to celebrate city’s LGBTQ+ communities this weekend
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/exeter-pride-to-celebrate-citys-lgbtq-communities-this-weekend/
- Published: 2024-05-09T12:30:29.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-09T11:39:14.000Z
- Description: One of the biggest free Pride events in the country returns to Exeter city centre this weekend. Exeter Pride, a celebration of LGBTQ+ communities, takes place on Saturday, 11 May with a march through the city centre and a host of other events. The march will start in Sidwell Street, just off Summerl
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Pride, Exeter, Exeter Pride, LGBT, LGBTQ

One of the biggest free Pride events in the country returns to **Exeter** city centre this weekend.

**Exeter Pride**, a celebration of LGBTQ+ communities, takes place on **Saturday, 11 May** with a march through the city centre and a host of other events.

The march will start in **Sidwell Street**, just off **Summerland Street**, gathering from **11.30am** and beginning at **12pm**. It will head down the **High Street** and turn right on to **Queen Street**, ending just before **Northernhay Gardens** around **1pm**.

The march will include giant rainbow flags, the **Street Heat** samba band, Morris dancers, roller derby and thousands of representatives from community groups and organisations.

At Northernhay Gardens, between **1 – 5pm**, there will a variety of stalls from local vendors, charity organisations and wellbeing groups.

Food and drink will also be sold in the park and visitors are encouraged to take along a blanket and picnic whilst buskers and drag acts provide unplugged entertainment.

Music, cabaret, a drag competition, clothes swaps, family-focused events and more will be on offer at **Exeter Library** from **10am – 4pm** and the **Royal Albert Memorial Museum** from **1 – 4.30pm**.

At **Exeter Phoenix** there will be family and youth zones, and acoustic music in the auditorium from **2 – 6pm**, and the afternoon will finish with stack of drag performers and a drag king competition! Later Exeter Phoenix hosts a party from **7pm** – **late**.

Exeter Pride trustees and volunteers have built on the success of last year’s **Rainbow Fayre** by bringing back the march through the city centre and reintroducing Northernhay Gardens stalls for 2024.

Local resident **Alan Quick** had the idea of holding a regular Pride event in the city in 2008 and it was local LGBTQ+ charity Intercom and a small group of people, including Alan, which co-ordinated the first Exeter Pride.

It was held in Exeter Phoenix and Exeter Library in February 2009 to coincide with **LGBT History Month**. The first ever Pride march through the streets of Exeter took place in 2010 and in 2013 the event expanded to include a marketplace of local organisations and businesses.

**For more information and the latest updates [CLICK HERE](http://www.exeterpride.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) or follow Exeter Pride on Facebook or Instagram.**