Cheryl Briggs recently stood down as chair of Oxford Pride and has been replaced by her deputy Rafe Jeune. The organisation of the event will not be effected as Cheryl is still involved in Pride. It was initially planned that the tenth Oxford Pride would take place on Paradise Street where it all began. But [...]
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LGBT History Month Events
The core of LGBT History month is the massive range of events which take place across the country every February. The LGBT History Month website - legbthistorymonth.org.uk – contains over 1000 events that take place across the country. So listing them all would be quite a job! Instead, here is a selection of the events [...]
Britain’s Gay Footballers and Reading Pride
At 9pm tonight (Monday 30th January 2012), BBC3 will screen a documentary entitled “Britain’s Gay Footballers”; Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin Fashanu, the only ever openly gay professional footballer, attempts to discover why not a single one of Britain’s 5000 professional footballers is openly gay, including talking to Max Clifford who has helped several footballers [...]
Rainbow flag appears over Oxford University
A rainbow flag has been flying over an Oxford University college for the first time ever. Wadham College raised the rainbow flag and kept it there for a whole week. It was part of a week that is all about celebrating LGBTQ life – Queerweek. Queerweek is the University’s annual celebration of LGBTQ life and [...]
Tesco announced as major sponsor of Worldpride 2012
Pride London, which has the honour of hosting WorldPride2012 in London next year, has announced Tesco as a Gold Sponsor of WorldPride 2012, pledging a significant sum towards the event and committing to running an area for families at the event. The company joins Headline Sponsor Smirnoff as top tier supporters of the event. Tesco, [...]
