LGBTQ+ News Oxford Pride Festival: ‘Role Models’ launches May 30 Oxford Pride commence their ten-day Pride festival with a launch party on Friday May 30. The event takes place at the Oxford Beach, in conjunction with The Big Bang in the Oxford Castle Quarter, which plays host to this years’ Pride Arts Exhibition. The theme of Oxford Pride this year is Role Models By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Bourne Free announce theme for 2014 Now in its tenth year, the organising committee of Bourne Free, Bournemouth’s LGBT Pride have announced the theme for 2014 will be Decades. Bourne Free Trustee Chris Ashton, said: “With this theme you can choose from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the naughties.. erm I mean noughties” “We are ex By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Third Pride Ambassador revealed Jenny Bennett, who has been volunteering for Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard since 1984 has been announced as Pride’s third Ambassador. Jenny who has not missed a single shift during those years, is a former recipient of a Golden Handbag Award for Service to the LGBT Community, was nominated for th By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Newcastle hotels drop rates for Northern Pride Newcastle hotels drop rates to attract visitors to Newcastle Pride in July. Newcastle Pride, one of the biggest free LGBT festivals in the UK, returns to Newcastle from Friday July 18 to Sunday July 20. The family-friendly event, which runs across two city sites, will feature headline performances b By Besi • 2 min read
Arts ‘Pride Literature Live’ returns to Preston Park Pride Literature Live, the LGBT literature tent hosted by Brighton & Hove Libraries and East Sussex Libraries and Information Services returns to Preston Park in August. An inclusive, interesting and a haven of inspiration and humour with a touch of politics, last year’s Pride Literature Live saw wr By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Pride Community Support Workshops Pride community volunteers are holding a series of short workshops to give advice and information aimed at helping community organisations get the most out of this year’s Pride. All are being held at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church. If your organisation is involved with this year’s Pride, you are in By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Volunteers needed for Pride Parade 78 counties, 78 plackards 1 parade: Volunteers needed to carry protest plackards on Pride parade on August 2. Brighton Pride needs your help. Join their march for equality and become part of Brighton Pride’s 2014 Freedom To Live campaign and volunteer to help make Pride Matter as organisers highligh By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Get in the health zone at Newcastle Pride HEALTH takes centre stage this summer at one of the North East’s biggest free festivals. Newcastle Pride 2014, one of the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) festivals in the country returns on Friday, June 18 for three days of parades, live entertainment and events. In response to By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Rainbow Rooms kitemark for LGBT visitors to Birmingham Pride On the eve of this weekend’s Birmingham Pride Festival, the Southside district has introduced a Rainbow Rooms kitemark for hotels that positively welcome LGBT guests. Southside Business Improvement District (BID) has brought together seven hotels under the Rainbow Rooms umbrella, representing a rang By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Kemptown Gay Village Street Party – a proposed way forward! Proposals have been tabled to make this years St James’s Street Village Party a ticketed event, managed and delivered by Pride CIC. The post Preston Park event started out as a small grassroots celebration supported by both the LGBT and business community organised independently of Pride by a group By Besi • 6 min read
LGBTQ+ News Manchester Pride feels the love Parade application are now open for the Manchester Pride Parade whose theme this year is LOVE. The annual Manchester Pride Parade, which will take place at 1pm on Saturday, August 23 2014. The Parade will weave its way through the city centre, following a 1.3mile route, as thousands of visitors line By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Cocktail competition is the toast of Manchester Manchester Pride challenges city bars to mix things up for Pride! The organisers of Manchester Pride, have challenged bars across the city to create their Pride Cocktail and raise funds for Manchester Pride’s Community Fund. Manchester Pride approached bars and restaurants across the city to get inv By Besi • 2 min read
