Community News Date announced for IWPride 2018 At the launch of the IWPride 2017 exhibition at the Dimbola Museum and Galleries last night (September 1) organisers revealed the date of IWPride 2018. Whilst celebrating the launch of the exhibition and congratulating winners of this years Capture your Pride photo competition, Roo Meechan, Ria Lang By Besi • 3 min read
Community News Manchester Evening News challenges the ‘Pride Haters’. Now in its 25th year, organisers estimate 3,000 people paraded through the city centre with thousands more lining the streets to watch. Participants included local businesses, corporate companies, statutory service providers and a float from Coronation Street. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts Pride Cymru 2017 – colourful, brilliant and proud! As a Welsh Gay man, returning home for this superb, fun, engaging LGBTQ Pride event, I felt truly proud to see my county and capital city embracing LGBTQ folk and rights in such a passionate, friendly and authentic way. What a great BIG weekend and what a welcome from the Cardiff gay boyo’s. Balchd By Eric Page • 4 min read
Community News Prowler raise £95 for Rainbow Fund Prowler raise £95.00 for Rainbow Fund over Pride weekend. Prowler in St James Street made a collection for the Rainbow Fund from their customers over Pride weekend. Pictured with the certificate are Paul Dale and manager Peter Booth. By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Pride returns to Portsmouth on September 16 Portsmouth Pride returns to the seafront at Southsea once again this year with a free event starting with a March from South Parade Pier. Assemble at the Pier from 10am for a 10.30am start. The March will proceed along the seafront to The Bandstand for live performances, including drag, cabaret and By Besi • 2 min read
Features & Longread OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – My Pride experience Last month I wrote about my Pride experiences over the last 20 years and how I never quite felt like I fitted in. I was always troubled with poor trans representation. I surmised by hoping that trans folk, and the less represented minorities of the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, would be better respected and re By Ms Sugar Swan • 8 min read
Community News This is what non binary looks like! My Genderation created a film for London Pride to be shown in Trafalgar Square during Pride in London, 2017. In the film, activists Fox and Owl chat about what it is to be non-binary. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Trans Pride 2017 – My Genderation – Putting the T first since 2013 This year Trans Pride in Brighton and Hove celebrated their fifth anniversary on July 22 with record numbers of 2,500+ reported on the protest march along Brighton seafront to Brunswick Square in Hove. By Besi • 1 min read
In The South TRAVEL: Sao Paulo Pride campaigns for a secular state in Brazil Despite all the progress towards equality over the last few decades – we still face daily discrimination and prejudice – to combat this we have the tradition of Pride a mixture of protest, awareness and celebration. I had the opportunity to see the 21st Sao Paulo Pride quite unexpectedly on Sunday, By Mike Nelson • 4 min read
Community News Sinitta and Sonia headline Southampton Pride today The South Coast’s latest Pride gets underway in Southampton’s Guildhall Square at 11am this morning with an opening welcome from Cllr Satvir Kaur the Labour Cabinet Member for Communities, Culture and Leisure on Southampton City Council. By Besi • 1 min read
Community News RSPCA launches LGBT t-shirts for ‘biggest ever’ Pride Cymru presence The charity’s iconic logo will be proudly placed on a rainbow background in anticipation for the Bank Holiday weekend event. RSPCA Cymru has launched a new limited edition range of clothing for Cardiff’s Pride Cymru event (August 26-27), featuring animals carrying positive connotations within the LG By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Welsh charities join forces for LGBTQ+ carers Welsh charities, Carers Wales and Pride Cymru, have joined forces to issue an innovative new guide for unpaid carers of all ages who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer (LGBTQ+). By Besi • 2 min read
