Pride
Brighton & Hove Pride has announced it is teaming up with local LGBTQ+ venues to create an “uplifted, reimagined celebration” for this year’s Pride Street Party. According to Pride, this “exciting evolution will allow us to provide a safe and sustainable Pride Street Party for the future in addition
LGBTQ+ News
Ipswich is to welcome its very first Party in the Park – a vibrant celebration of LGBTQ+ culture – on 12 July. “We want to create a safe space for absolutely all identities,” said committee-member Phil Harper, who is a trans rights researcher and senior lecturer in health and social care at Birmingh
Theatre
A stage musical adaptation of beloved LGBTQ+ film PRIDE has been confirmed for National Theatre in London. Based on the uplifting true story of solidarity between LGBTQ+ activists and striking Welsh miners during the 1984 miners’ strike, Pride follows two seemingly disparate communities united durin
LGBTQ+ News
Multiple events celebrating Pride in Southwark, London have been awarded a share of £32,000 from Southwark Council. More than 30 organisations applied for the Southwark Pride funding pot, which supports events that celebrate LGBTQ+ identity, culture, histories and rights. Cllr Stephanie Cryan, Cabin
Pride
Councillor Birgit Miller, Cabinet member for Culture, Heritage and Tourism, has responded to a Brighton & Hove Liberal Democrats statement, saying Brighton & Hove City Council needs to “get real” over this summer’s Pride celebrations. According to the Lib Dems, the council’s recently announced plans
Pride
Brighton & Hove Liberal Democrats have called on Brighton & Hove City Council to get “real over” this summer’s Pride celebrations, saying businesses, residents and LGBTQ+ attendees “deserve better”. According to the Party, the council’s recently announced plans to move the street party to Marine Par
LGBTQ+ News
Pride FM, the UK’s newest national radio station, has announced its first ambassadors: Caroline Paige and Bradley Riches. Pride FM, which launched earlier this year, is dedicated to serving LGBTQ+ communities across the UK. It’s a national 24/7 radio station, available online, through a dedicated ap
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Sunderland AFC (SAFC) has announced it will sponsor a free concert to bring the city together following this year’s Sunderland Pride March on Sunday, 28 June. Organisers Out North East said the support of the football club would allow them to “pull out all the stops”. Peter Darrant, chair of Out Nor
Sport
Trailblazing, openly gay footballer Zander Murray will be giving two public talks in Elgin, Scotland in May, exploring the issue of homophobia in sport. Moray Pride Inclusion Hub, which connects LGBTQ+ community members with local sports clubs to promote inclusive sporting opportunities, will be hos
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The organisers of Lincoln Pride, which is due to take place on 16 August, have issued a plea to prevent the “lifeline” LGBTQ+ event from being cancelled due to financial difficulties. In a statement, Lincoln Pride, which attracted more than 8,500 people last year, said it had “turned to the communit
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Witney Pride in Oxfordshire has banned the Labour Party from sponsoring its event on Saturday, May 24 following Sir Keir Starmer’s remarks that trans women are not women. The Pride organisation said in a statement on social media it will return the party’s sponsorship money and remove the party’s lo
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Channel Islands Pride will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year on Saturday, June 21 with the theme ‘Louder, Prouder, Stronger’. The event, which will be “a celebration and a rallying cry”, will take place this year at the People’s Park in Jersey. Christian May, director of Channel Islands Pride