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May 23, 2013
Moscow Pride to defy court ban and go on as planned

Despite a Moscow suburban court ban, organizers intend to go ahead with Moscow gay Pride as plannedDespite a Moscow suburban court ban, organizers intend to go ahead with Moscow gay Pride as planned

A Moscow suburb court upheld the decision of the city authorities not to permit a gay pride parade this Saturday (25 May). Despite the ban, activists say Moscow Pride will go ahead as planned.

Nikolai Alekseev, co-founder of Moscow Pride and GayRussia, stated: ‘Khimki City Court upheld the ban on the planned Gay Pride rally and march.’

He added he would appeal on Monday to the Moscow Regional Court.

May 23, 2013
Moscow Pride to defy court ban and go on as planned

Despite a Moscow suburban court ban, organizers intend to go ahead with Moscow gay Pride as plannedDespite a Moscow suburban court ban, organizers intend to go ahead with Moscow gay Pride as planned

A Moscow suburb court upheld the decision of the city authorities not to permit a gay pride parade this Saturday (25 May). Despite the ban, activists say Moscow Pride will go ahead as planned.

Nikolai Alekseev, co-founder of Moscow Pride and GayRussia, stated: ‘Khimki City Court upheld the ban on the planned Gay Pride rally and march.’

He added he would appeal on Monday to the Moscow Regional Court.

May 22, 2013
Birmingham prepares for 'craziest' gay pride ever

JLS, Paloma Faith, Lucy Spraggan, Stooshe and many more are part of the star-studded line up at the West Midlands English city pride

Birmingham pride have sold ‘crazy’ numbers of tickets for this year’s event according to their Twitter page.

May 20, 2013
Ukraine lawmakers demand ban on Kiev gay pride

62 Ukrainian parliamentarians signed a petition demanded from Kiev's mayor to ban a planned gay pride parade later this month

Sixty-one lawmakers signed a petition urging Ukraine’s capital city’s mayor to ban a gay-pride parade in Kiev scheduled for 25 May.

Pavlo Unhuryan, parliamentary and leader of the right wing of Ukraine’s Family Movement, announced today (20 May) that the petition requests a total ban on gay-pride parades ‘and similar events in Kiev in May-June 2013.’

May 17, 2013
Time to celebrate the LGBT pride season with Travelex and GSN!

It will soon be that time of year again when rainbow flags will line the streets of the UK and beyond to celebrate the LGBT community and their friends

Gay Star News is already the official global media partner for prides in London, Brighton and Manchester in the UK and EuroPride in Marseille, France. GSN will be at all the parades handing out stylish Gay Star News tote bags with loads of fab goodies.

May 16, 2013
Sardinia takes to the beach for its sandy gay Pride

Sardinia, Italy, will host its second pride parade. Thousands of people will march on the beach for the event

Sardinia is uniting for an LGBT pride parade on the beach which will teach the island about gay families and transphobia.

The announcement of the event's details comes after the first pride, last year, was attacked by right-wing politicians who declared the Mediterranean island doesn't need the event.

The ‘Queeresima’ – 40 days of events – will culminate in the final parade on the beach on 29 June. But there’s more to the festival than music and drag queens.

May 10, 2013
Veteran activist to lead Birmingham Pride gay marriage parade

Support same-sex marriage at Birmingham’s equal love-themed parade in the Midlands of England

Veteran LGBT human rights activist and gay marriage campaigner Peter Tatchell will be leading Britain's Birmingham Pride Parade on 25 May.

The parade is supporting the pending same-sex marriage bill, to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales, due to resume its progress through parliament on 20 May.

May 10, 2013
Veteran activist to lead Birmingham Pride gay marriage parade

Support same-sex marriage at Birmingham’s equal love-themed parade in the Midlands of England

Veteran LGBT human rights activist and gay marriage campaigner Peter Tatchell will be leading Britain's Birmingham Pride Parade on 25 May.

The parade is supporting the pending same-sex marriage bill, to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales, due to resume its progress through parliament on 20 May.

May 7, 2013
Yumbo fire: British man arrested at Gran Canaria gay pride

Yumbo Center, the hub for gay travelers and residents at the Maspalomas Gay Pride, will stay open after serious fire

A young British man was arrested for questioning about an alleged arson attack at Maspalomas Gay Pride in Gran Canaria yesterday (6 May).

As GSN reported yesterday, up to seven businesses have been destroyed at the Yumbo Centre, the hub for gay travelers and residents in the Canary Islands.

May 6, 2013
Russian protestors defy gay gag law and police threats for May Day parade

An estimated 100 LGBT activists risked arrest and violence by joining the May Day march with pro-gay banners and rainbow flags 

A group of Russian LGBT activists showed their pride at this year’s May Day parade in St. Petersburg.

According to reports by human rights activist Michael Petrelis, approximately 100 activists rallied with the larger crowds celebrating International Workers’ Day holdings signs that read: ‘Repeal the Shameful Homophobic Law! Let's Stop Hate and Discrimination Together!’

April 27, 2013
Ambassador launches Tokyo Rainbow Week

Tokyo Rainbow Week 2013 kicked off with a 'Colorful Eve Reception' at the residence of the ambassador of the Netherlands

The Dutch ambassador to Japan has kicked-off Tokyo Rainbow Week 2013 with a colorful reception for the LGBT community and their supporters.

Tokyo Rainbow Week is dedicated to supporting Japan’s sexual minority community, creating a friendly and accepting society where anybody can be themselves and lead 'a life of happiness and optimism'.

April 27, 2013
Bradley Manning will not be a San Francisco Gay Pride grand marshal

WikiLeaks Army private Bradley Manning has San Francisco Gay Pride marshal invite revoked

The organizers of the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade have been under intense scrutiny in the past 48 hours.

April 24, 2013
JLS still to appear at Birmingham Pride despite split

Fans ‘distraught’ after British pop band JLS announce split but there will still be a farewell tour and a DJ set at Birmingham Pride in May

JLS will still perform their 60-minute DJ set at Birmingham Gay Pride on 25 May, despite announcing they will split at the end of this year.

The gay-friendly boy band, who released their own brand of condoms and posed for gay magazines, will also do a farewell tour in December before going their separate ways.

The foursome – Oritsé Williams, Marvin Humes, JB Gill and Aston Merrygold – previously shrugged off rumors that they are gay.

April 24, 2013
JLS still to appear at Birmingham Pride despite split

Fans ‘distraught’ after British pop band JLS announce split but there will still be a farewell tour and a DJ set at Birmingham Pride in May

JLS will still perform their 60-minute DJ set at Birmingham Gay Pride on 25 May, despite announcing they will split at the end of this year.

The gay-friendly boy band, who released their own brand of condoms and posed for gay magazines, will also do a farewell tour in December before going their separate ways.

The foursome – Oritsé Williams, Marvin Humes, JB Gill and Aston Merrygold – previously shrugged off rumors that they are gay.

April 19, 2013
Biggest ever line-up for Birmingham Gay Pride

JLS, Paloma Faith, Bananarama, Stooshe, A*M*E, Rylan Clark and Lucy Spraggan confirmed for LGBT pride in Midlands, England

Pop acts JLS, Paloma Faith and 1980s legends Bananarama will be headlining this year’s Birmingham Gay Pride Festival, organizers have announced.

Britain’s second city will hold its pride over the public holiday weekend of 25 and 26 May.

The 2013 pride line-up will also include girl chart group Stooshe, whose performance will include their monster smash hit Black Heart, and vocalist A*M*E, who features on the current number one-selling single Need U (100%).

April 3, 2013
Rural county of Wiltshire gets ready for first gay pride

UK charity, Rainbow Rooms, brings gay pride to British countryside county of Wiltshire

The first Pride of Wiltshire festival is set to take place this September.

UK LGBT charity, Rainbow Rooms, has teamed up with the historical Hampworth Estate to host the event which will bring all Wiltshire LGBT communities together.

The festival weekend has been confirmed for Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September 2013.

April 3, 2013
St Petersburg Pride to go ahead despite gay ban law

Russian activists announce they will attempt another St Petersburg gay Pride despite local gay ban law and police harassment

The Organizing Committee of the St. Petersburg LGBT Pride says they will attempt to hold Pride on 29 June, 2013 even though three previous attempts have resulted in arrests and harassment and the city’s ban on so called ‘homosexual propaganda’.

The committee further stated that Pride would be held in order to attract public attention to the LGBT people in the city, as well as promoting tolerance and equality.

Last year the city’s government agreed to allow Pride but then banned it only two days before the event was scheduled to take place (7 July 2012).

April 2, 2013
Bronx LGBT center boss jailed for theft that closed her organization

The former director of the Bronx LGBT Community Pride Center has been jailed for embezzling over $300,000

Lisa Winters, former head of the Bronx LGBT Pride Center in New York has been jailed for embezzling $338,000 (€263,000) from her organization.

Website Queerty reports Winters pleaded guilty to her crime at the Bronx Supreme Court.

She said that she used the money to hire a dog walker and pay for a trip with her wife, Eileen Scroggins, to South Africa.

April 1, 2013
Call for Dublin footbridge to be named to honor gay hate murder victim

Dublin City Council will consider naming one of the city’s footbridges to honor the memory of a gay Irishman killed in a nearby park in 1982 who’s death inspired the city’s first Gay Pride march

Independent Dublin City councilor Damian O’Farrell (pictured) has proposed that the city’s new Fairview Footbridge be named to honor a gay man who was beaten to death in a nearby park 31 years ago.

Declan Flynn’s 1982 death at the hands of five teenagers inspired Dublin’s LGBT community to organize its first Pride march the following year after all of the boys were given suspended sentences over the killing and some in the local areas celebrated their release.

March 26, 2013
Gay activist badly beaten as Russian city bans pride

Syktyvkar's authorities, capital of Russia's republic of Komi, have banned a gay pride march as it ‘promoted homosexuality’, while its organizer was badly beaten

The Syktyvkar city administration, capital of the Russian republic of Komi announced that its banning a planned gay-pride parade.

In a statement released yesterday (25 March) the authorities explained that the ban on pride, which was planned for 31 March, was put in place in response to ‘requests from the city's religious and public organizations not to allow public events promoting homosexual values’.

It also stated that Syktyvkar’s Mayor Ivan Pozdeyev requested that city lawmakers prepare a draft law banning any similar events.

March 20, 2013
Historic Russian court ruling: gay pride is legal

Kostroma regional court made a landmark ruling saying that gay pride events were previously illegally banned by the authorities

Press Secretary of the Kostroma Oblast Court Julia Medvedeva announced the court ruled illegal a ban on gay pride marches in the region and on two rallies against the local law prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality among minors.

‘The Civil Chamber of Kostroma Regional Court granted the appeal of Moscow Pride and events founder Nikolai Alekseev against the decision of Sverdlovsk District Court’, said Medvedeva today (20 March).

March 15, 2013
Russia defies Europe as ministers criticize banning of Moscow Pride

Council of Europe says Russia must allow LGBT people to hold prides and axe anti-gay propaganda laws but Moscow security chief says there will be no change

Foreign ministers from around Europe have told Russia to allow gay pride parades and to remove laws banning ‘homosexual propaganda’.

March 9, 2013
Northern Ireland gets ready for a cultural Foyle Pride in Derry

GSN travels to Derry-Londonderry to check on preparations for LGBT Pride celebrations in 2013

The celebration of LGBT Pride takes all sorts of different forms around the world.

What began as a political movement, demanding equality and human rights for LGBT people, has evolved in many places into festivals, parades and parties of all shapes and sizes.

What’s undeniable is that the focus and character of a pride event is very much shaped by the city and people that it represents.

February 24, 2013
Gay pride fundraiser whips up music, food and the world's fastest plane under one roof

Celebrity guests, circus scenes and performances by Brit-pop band The Feeling look to blow the roof off Manchester Pride's 'Supersonic' fundraiser
 

This year's Manchester Pride season kicks off with an exclusive, red-carpet event held on 6 April in the Concorde Hangar at Manchester Airport.

Inspired by the power and energy of the fastest plane in the world, the 'Supersonic'-themed fundraiser will blow guests away with a premiere three-course dinner and lively entertainment underneath a Concorde Jet.

February 17, 2013
Tens of thousands watch uniformed military march in Auckland Pride parade

Tens of thousands gathered in Auckland on Saturday to watch members of the New Zealand armed forces march in uniform for the first time in the city’s first Pride parade in 12 years

Tens of thousands turned out to watch members of the New Zealand military march in uniform for the first time in Saturday’s Auckland Pride parade.

It was the first time that Auckland had hosted an LGBT pride parade since 2001 when the city’s annual Hero Parade ceased due to lack of funding.

This year’s Auckland Pride parade followed the same route as the Hero Parade – along Ponsonby Street – and terminated in Victoria Park for a large public party.