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.

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.

Tokyo Rainbow Week continued today (28 April) with its second, and perhaps most visible event, the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade.

Gay Star News was at the parade.

The event started in the 'Pride Village' in Yoyogi Park, where about 3,000 people gathered to watch performances, visit booths, and then to parade through the streets of Shibuya and back to the park.

Several corporations were at the event, including Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Phillips, and UBS.

Excitement is starting to build for Manchester Pride 2013, one of the most popular LGBT celebrations in Britain, after the event's launch.

Patrons, friends, trustees and media supporters of the organisation gathered for an exclusive look at what can be expected from this year’s Manchester Pride, which begins on 16 August. 

It has been announced the theme for this year’s parade is Acceptable in the 80s. 

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.

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%).

Two gay identical twin brothers are to host a pride event in their home town this September.

Jon and Mat Price grew up in Totnes, Devon, south-west England, and have since founded the Proud2Be Project.

The project aims to provide positive messages for gay people – especially those growing up or living in rural areas.

In a personal message on the project’s website, the two state: ‘As gay children growing up in a small rural village we both know how isolating it can be to be LGBT identified and have little access to those of the same community.

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Gay Star News are official media partners for three of the UK’s biggest LGBT events taking place this summer; London Pride, Manchester Pride and Brighton Pride and for EuroPride 2013 taking place in Marseille, France.

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.

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).

Lesbian pride festival, Dyke March, will return to the UK for its second year running.

The march, taking place on 22 June, has announced this year’s route will commemorate the Votes for Women Rally – the Suffragettes marched the same way through London in 1908.

Dyke March says the event will begin at 3pm in Berkeley Square, moving on to Piccadilly and Leicester Square before arriving in Soho.

Organizer Emelia Holdaway, says the event will symbolize the biggest expression of lesbian pride without focusing on other LGBT people.