LGBTQ+ News Organisers of Leeds Pride share exciting plans for 2025 festival Organisers of Leeds Pride – one of the city’s largest festival weekends of the year – have announced the first wave of acts performing at the 2025 event, which takes place on Sunday, July 20. Headlining the main stage will be chart-topping band Liberty X who will be performing their biggest hits alo By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Pipeworks, “Scotland’s best and largest Gay Sauna Club”, to open first premises in England More details have emerged of a new gay men’s sauna opening in Leeds, which will include a steam room, dry sauna, cold dunk showers, swimming pool and a rooftop spa area. The sauna, part of Pipeworks company, which describes its Glasgow premises as “Scotland’s best and largest gay sauna club”, will b By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Pride Feels so good: Leeds Pride reveals big name acts for 2024 Pride event Leeds Pride recently announced ambitious plans for the city’s 2024 festival, which is to take place in July. Not only will this year’s celebration be the largest in scale with the likes of Call Lane joining the party, but a week-long calendar of events will ensure nobody misses the fun. Headlining t By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Pride Bigger, Bolder, Louder, Prouder: Leeds Pride to return in July Leeds Pride is to to return bigger, bolder, louder and prouder on Sunday, July 21 after the biggest-ever Pride parade last year, which saw over 167 businesses taking part throughout the day. Last year over 60,000 people took part to celebrate Pride in the city. This year, organisers promise the even By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Stories of Gender exhibition at Leeds City Museum on Saturday, October 8 and Sunday, October 9 Stories of Gender brings together personal narratives of people from West Yorkshire who have lived experiences of gender identity and insights they have to offer others. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News No shade: Lower Briggate lights up for the LGBTQ+ people of Leeds New rainbow lighting is set to light up Lower Briggate ahead of this weekend’s Leeds Pride 2022. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Internationally renowned street artist Cbloxx to unveil mural in Leeds dedicated to the progress made towards LGBTQ+ inclusivity in football ‘The Peacock’ champions the inclusivity advancements made by Leeds United Football Club LGBTQ+ group Marching Out Together By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Back to the the ’90s: capturing the north’s long-lost gay scene Alex Klineberg gets up, close and personal with Stuart Linden Rhodes, accidental chronicler of northern England’s gay nightlife in the 1990s By Alex Klineberg • 4 min read
General News Bouncer jailed after homophobic attack at Leeds Pride On November 22, prosecutors at Leeds Crown Court heard the case of a gay man who was violently attacked by a bar bouncer during Leeds Pride. By Rachel Badham • 1 min read
General News LGBTQ+ mural to be built in Leeds A mural will be built in Leeds to honour the LGBTQ+ community’s contribution to the city’s football team. By Rachel Badham • 2 min read
Arts LGBTQ+ bookshop opens in Leeds Alternative LGBTQ+ bookstore, The Bookish Type, has opened its doors in the Merrion Centre (Leeds, West Yorkshire). By Rachel Badham • 1 min read