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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.

October 24, 2012

Mayor of London Boris Johnson wants bidders to tender to run LGBT pride in the capital for the next five years

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.

October 9, 2012

Parade protesters accuse pride in SA capital of a ‘white male’ culture and ‘commercialised’ image

Pride organisers have responded to accusations of racism and elitism by the black lesbian campaigners who blocked the Johannesburg march with a lie down protest.

The action by the NGO, One in Nine, resulted in minor clashes with pride organizers on Saturday (6 October), triggering a very public debate on the purpose of pride.

October 4, 2012

GSN is chairing a debate at Heaven on 25 July at 5.30pm on how to create a world class LGBT pride in London

9 July 2012

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.

October 4, 2012

The capital of Sicily is going to host the LGBT event, despite books and newspaper reports saying the island is dangerous for gays

Palermo, ‘capital’ of Sicily, is going to host the national Italian Gay Pride in the summer of 2013.

It is the first time that a national Pride is going to be held in the southern Italian island. It has been chosen as host by Italy's leading LGBT association Arcigay.

The pride committee said: ‘This country is changing and, for the first time, Sicily will host a pride. This is a sign of the new era that has started in Italy.’

September 6, 2012

Confusion continues over the future of London’s biggest LGBT event with pride bosses, City Hall and potential organizers pursuing different ways forward

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.

September 5, 2012

Trade union officer and LGBT activist Peter Purton examines how Pride London can prosper while remaining true to its roots

The latest episode in the post-World Pride saga takes place at Congress House in London, the headquarters of the British trade unions, on 5 September.

World Pride 2012 was in London as the UK capital celebrated its Olympic year and its organisers and sponsors meant it to be something to make every LGBT person proud. But there were sudden cutbacks and restrictions of the program introduced in the final week.

August 29, 2012

Comic Jonathan Mayer upset gay Conservatives at Britain’s Manchester Pride. Future speakers may have scripts approved in advance

Conservatives have complained to Manchester Pride organizers after local comic Jonathan Mayer described being gay and Tory as ‘a refined form of self-harm’ at the event.

The alternative comic was one of the guest speakers at the Candlelit Vigil for HIV which always marks the end of the Pride celebrations in the north-west England city.

But Mayer’s speech on Monday evening (27 August) included criticism of Conservative politicians including London’s Mayor Boris Johnson and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.