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June 10, 2013

London announces scene and upcoming talent for Pride in London event

Doctor Who pin-up and Children’s BBC TV presenter Andrew Hayden-Smith has been named as a host for Pride in London as the free festival’s line-up is announced.

Hayden-Smith will be joined as a host for the main stage in Trafalgar Square by drag legend Dusty O, actor and comedian Chris Fitchew and UK Paralympic sitting-basketball player Claire Harvey at the event in the UK capital.

June 10, 2013

West Pride is one of the fastest-growing celebrations of LGBT equality in the world, and GSN was there to watch it happen

West Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden has become a place where not only the LGBT community, but also families can come together to celebrate love.

There is a rainbow flag adorning nearly every street, 700 on buses, trams, and poles across the city.

It may be the greenery, the 17th century architecture, or the rivers and sea, but the rainbow seem more vivid, brighter, prouder.

For the majority of the year, Gothenburg is a chilled out, cool city. But on the first weekend of June, West Pride, an activist spirit sparks.

June 8, 2013

Secretary of State Kerry pays homage to Stonewall and insists freedom is a right for LGBT people worldwide

The face of US foreign policy honored June as LGBT Pride Month and asserted a commitment to gay rights around the world.

Secretary of State John Kerry released a video on the State Department website. He connected gay pride celebrations to larger human rights struggles.

June 3, 2013

'I'm sure I could make a late supper if an F35 were to pick me up at the field right after practice. Just saying'

Chris Kluwe, the NFL punter who in the past year has become a famous LGBT activist, is making clear that his new job with the Oakland Raiders comes first right now - even before visiting The White House.

Kluwe was among those invited to a 15 June reception celebrating LGBT Pride Month but he has training with the Raiders, the the team that signed him last month after he was let go by the Minnesota Vikings.

June 3, 2013

Irene Monroe argues why Black Pride is needed to celebrate African LGBT life and address issues often overlooked by the white-dominated gay community

Black Pride reaffirms our identity. And it dances to a different beat.

What started out in Washington DC in 1990 as the only Black Gay Pride event in the country has grown to over 35 gatherings nationwide. Similar events now happen elsewhere too – including in the UK where London hosts an award-winning Black Pride celebration.

June 1, 2013

We celebrate 'at a moment of great hope and progress, recognizing that more needs to be done'

Barack Obama, the first sitting US president to express support for gay marriage, trumpeted the recent progress Americans have made towards equality in an LGBT Pride Month Proclamation released Friday (31 May).

'In the past year, for the first time, voters in multiple States affirmed marriage equality for same-sex couples,' Obama stated.

May 22, 2013

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 3, 2013

Mutya, Keisha and Siobahn will perform song by Emeli Sande. Stooshe, Lucy Spraggan and boybands also join acts for gay festival on Britain’s south coast

Paloma Faith and Mutya, Keisha and Siobahn (MKS) are among the acts confirmed today for Brighton Pride.

The LGBT park-based festival in Britain’s gayest seaside city is not until 3 August. But early entrants to the line-up are already being announced.

April 26, 2013

Russian gay and political activist Alexey Kiselyov was granted a fast-track political asylum in Spain for being thereanted with imprisonment over Moscow protests

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.

April 17, 2013

Bristol Pride bosses announce plans for party on 13 July and call for financial support from the community

LGBT people in Bristol, south-west England, can look forward to a week-long festival followed by a park-based party for pride this year.

The festival of comedy, dance, theatre, film and performance from 6 July will culminate in a festival on 13 July at the Castle Park – within easy reach of the train and bus stations and close to the city’s main shopping center.

April 11, 2013

Gay organizations in north-west England get cash from pride festival: Grants will help trans men, asylum seekers, gay adopters and foster carers and volleyball players

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).

April 11, 2013

Gay-fronted pop band The Feeling were among the performers at a special dinner, under the wings of Concorde, for England’s Manchester Pride

This is the moment when gay-fronted pop band The Feeling went Supersonic in the Concorde hangar for Manchester Pride.

The band, whose lead singer Dan Guillespie-Sells has long been involved in gay rights, performed at a red-carpet fundraising dinner for the leading pride event in north-west England on Saturday (6 April).

Guests dined under the wings of the now-retired BA Concorde plane at Manchester Airport before taking part in a raffle and charity auction.

April 3, 2013

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

Civil Rights Defenders approves funding application for second Viet Pride in August, with bicycle rally and equality in employment campaign

A Swedish international human rights organization has approved a grant for a Pride celebration in Vietnam this year.

Civil Rights Defenders has given Viet Pride $6,000 (US dollar, €4,700) that will be spent on a campaign against discrimination towards LGBT people in employment and the second Viet Pride bicycle rally.

April 2, 2013

New UK boy band, Class A, have released new single “Pride” in aid of LGBT charity Stonewall.

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.

March 26, 2013

UK Black Pride moves its event to be at the heart of a more diverse Pride in London festival in 2013

UK Black Pride will hold its main event on the same day as Pride in London, 29 June, this year.

The London LGBT+ Community Pride organizers and UK Black Pride bosses announced a partnership today to bring the two events together.

London pride bosses will organize the infrastructure for the whole event and UK Black Pride will plan and deliver the party in Golden Square, Soho.

March 8, 2013

Pride bosses need to raise more cash and get a small army of volunteers to make the event go ahead in the UK capital

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.

February 18, 2013

Michael Salter, chair of new organizers London LGBT+ Community Pride, explains why the London event will stand or fall on your involvement

London LGBT+ Community Pride is the new Community Interest Company that’s been entrusted with managing Pride in London from this year until 2017. And we have a simple message to start with: if you want pride to continue, you need to get involved. It’s that simple – we need people to commit time, energy and money because we’re trying to organize in five months an event that normally takes a year!

February 5, 2013

The annual event, featuring a host of celebrity guests, will give students the chance to socialise, debate and party

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.

January 1, 2013

A clever partnership with Israel’s largest sporting event enables the launch of the Tel Aviv Pride Run

Tel Aviv’s annual marathon has grown to become the country’s largest sporting event - over 30,000 runners are expected to take part in the 2013 event that will be held on 15 March.

December 16, 2012

GSN meets the girl from Liverpool who is committed to achieving equality for gays and lesbians in Japan and has become a key part of Tokyo Rainbow Pride

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.

November 21, 2012

Northern Italian city is going to host a regional pride in 2013, but local politicians are protesting and organizing counter-demonstrations

Protests are mounting against a gay pride festival in the Italian city of Vicenza.

The city of Vicenza in Italy is going to host Veneto Pride 2013, but protests against the celebrations are mounting.

Local politicians are criticizing the choice of the city as host of Veneto Pride and a poll revealed that almost half of the metropolis is against the LGBT event on 15 June, 2013.

Regional Education secretary, Elena Donazzon, said: ‘The pride will be ridiculous and vulgar. I have a lot of gay friends but all of them are against this kind of thing.’

November 20, 2012

London Community Pride reveals it is one of the bidders to run the UK capital's annual LGBT festival

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.

October 31, 2012

People interested in running LGBT pride in London have just three days for the deadline for bids closes

There are only three days left until the deadline closes for bids to run gay pride in the British capital.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced last Wednesday (24 October) that his team will review bids from non-profit, community-based organizations to run and develop pride in London over the next five years from 2013.

The deadline for interested parties closes on Friday (2 November).

The winning tender could be given grants by City Hall of up to £500,000 ($800,000 €619,000) with free use of Trafalgar Square in central London chucked into the deal.