If you haven’t heard yet, this year the IDAHO committee team is lending a special support to rainbow themed flashmobs around the world today (May 17th). It is hoped this will give an added vibrancy, buzz and common signature to unique local actions. You can find out all about it in the new, dedicated website: [...]
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Beverley Knight Added to Mardi Gras Line-up
Queen of UK Soul, Beverley Knight will entertain thousands at the Millennium Stadium this summer by performing at Cardiff Mardi Gras. Having been making music since the mid 1990’s, we can expect to see her perform a huge repertoire of hits on August 31st. Some of these include: ‘Greatest Day’, ‘Shoulda Woulda Coula’, ‘Keep This [...]
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Rainbow flag parade will be pride of celebrations
Exeter will host the largest rainbow flag parade the city has ever seen as part of the biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) celebration in the South West. A 50 metre-long rainbow flag will be part of the Exeter Pride parade down Exeter High Street to Exeter Phoenix on Saturday, March 23. The Lord [...]
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Exeter Pride Ceilidh
Exeter Pride Ceilidh will be held at The Lemongrove, Cornwall House, University of Exeter, 8pm to 11.30pm, Thursday, February 28, with the band Going Steady and the caller, Martin Hodge. Please come along and encourage as many people as possible to help make it a great night out. No previous experience necessary! It is just £3 [...]
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Exeter Pride – It’s BACK!…..It’s BIGGER!!…..It’s BETTER!!!
The fifth Exeter Pride, a celebration of Exeter’s LGBT communities, will take place on and around Saturday, March 23. Last year more than 1,500 took part in the Pride Parade down Exeter High Street and more than 2,000 people attended events held at Exeter Phoenix. This year it is back and will be bigger, better [...]
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Secret lives on show at M Shed
A ground-breaking exhibition called ‘Revealing Stories’ will run at the city’s M Shed museum for the whole of February, focussing on the secret lives of Bristolians. Revealing Stories is the result of painstaking research and dozens of interviews and uncovers the lives of lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) Bristolians from the 1930s to the [...]
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Brighton Pride: Greens celebrate United Colours of Pride
Greens are pulling out all the stops this year showcase their support for the Lesbian, gay, bi and trans community in the city at Brighton and Hove Pride on 1 September. The Green Party’s traditional float will be decorated with a 7 metre rainbow flag and rainbow coloured biodegradable, air-filled balloons. A local [...]
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Thousands attend Bristol Pride parade and free day festival
Thousands of people attended this weekend’s Bristol Pride festival and showed their Pride and commitment for equality in a massive display of colour and diversity. The wet start to the day did not dampen the spirits of the hundreds of people that gathered to show their support and make a stand against prejudice. Lead by [...]
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Unison to sponsor Swindon & Wiltshire Pride Community Stage
Swindon & Wiltshire Pride are proud to announce that for the second year Unison will be sponsoring the Community Stage. Following on from the success of the Community Stage in 2011 and previous years attending Swindon and Wiltshire Pride as stall holders, Unison have once again come out to show their support for and commitment [...]
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TUC examine the World Pride problems
Following the massive publicity for the last-minute problems that afflicted World Pride in London on 7 July, the TUC has taken the lead in calling on LGBT community groups and trade unions to come together to discuss how to prevent a repetition, with a starting point of there being a free, national Pride event in [...]
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