Renowned Russian LGBT rights advocate, Aleksei Kiselyov, has reportedly been granted political asylum in Spain.

Moscow based fellow gay rights advocate, Nikolai Alekseyev, reported today (26 April) that Spain granted Kiselyov asylum and a five-year permanent resident permit.

Kiselyov participated in a protest against the reelection of President Vladimir Putin on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square in May 2012 that was violently dispersed by police.

The fundraising charity behind Manchester Pride festival in north-west England have announced grants to a range of organizations through its fast track scheme.

The 2012 Manchester Pride Festival raised £52,000 ($81,000 €61,000) which has been shared between charity partners the Lesbian and Gay Foundation and George House Trust, and the Fast Track Grant scheme.

Some 32 LGBT groups and organizations, and those who work with people living with or affected by HIV have shared £17,100 ($26,300 €20,000).

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.

A new British boyband have released a new single to aid gay rights charity Stonewall.

Promoting anti-bullying and anti-discrimination, Class A's new single will be called 'Pride'.

The band, made up of James Poole, Robin Varley, Jake Birnie, Seb Kinder, Craig Plant and Sean Ryan, hopes it will bring together asense of unity among the LGBT community.

All profits from the song will be going to Stonewall.

Your Pride Needs You; that’s the message DJ and promoter Jodie Harsh has given to LGBT Londoners.

Dressed as Lord Kitchener to reflect the famous World War I British recruitment poster, Harsh hopes to get the troops to fall in line to make Pride in London work this summer.

The parade, rally and party are scheduled for 29 June but the new organizers, London LGBT+ Community Pride has warned it may all be scaled back or axed if they don’t raise enough cash or get enough volunteers.

The Brighton Dome will play host to the return of National Student Pride on 1 to 3 March.

The annual event, supported by Gay Star News, will feature live music, club nights, a question time panel and a debate on homophobia in sports, giving students the chance to socialize, debate and party.

Organizers hope students from across the UK will spend the weekend in the seaside city of Brighton on England's south coast for the event.

On a recent visit to Tokyo, Lauren Anderson’s name seem to come up a lot. The English communications officer for Tokyo Rainbow Pride - it was clear from the people that I spoke to in Japan that Anderson was well connected and well respected.

After an exchange of emails, we worked out that we would both be in London in December. We met in a Giraffe restaurant in the The Brunswick shopping centre in Bloomsbury, close to where Anderson is studying.

A group which promises to make gay pride in London a 'beacon to the world' has announced its bid to run next year's event in the UK capital.

The London Community Pride (LCP) group have applied to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, for the job of managing the annual event for the next five years.

Claiming to comprise of individuals with 'wide experience' in events organization and fundraising, LCP promises to use money made from the festival to support charities which work with and for the LGBT community, as well as finance pride in the future.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has today (24 October) said he wants people to bid to run LGBT pride in the British capital.

It confirms a report by Gay Star News on 6 September, which City Hall officials refused to confirm.

Johnson’s team will review bids from non-profit, community-based organizations to run and develop pride in the capital over the next five years from 2013.

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The meeting will be open to the public and bring together London’s LGBT businesses and community with leading gay organizations, stakeholders of all kinds and sponsors.

It comes after controversy rocked this year’s event held on Saturday (7 July). London was hosting World Pride but it was scaled back at the last minute with a rally cut short, floats taken out of the parade and an official street party in Soho cancelled.

London Mayor Boris Johnson wants people to bid to run the city’s LGBT pride as confusion over the future of the event continues.

Johnson’s City Hall, which was criticized after the UK capital had to scale back World Pride it hosted in July, is apparently planning to call for tenders from potential pride organizers.

While LGBT pride in the city is independent and not technically ‘owned’ by the mayor, City Hall has traditionally put in £100,000 ($159,000 €126,000) to help make it happen, as well as donating Trafalgar Square in the heart of London for free.