Recent Posts Tagged With 'gay events festivals'

• Sydney Mardi Gras turns 30

  Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 03:46 in gay events festivals, gay pride

  Sydney's gay and lesbian Mardi Gras festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary, due to culminate on Saturday night with the annual parade. The event has become one of the largest gay pride festivals in the world and generates millions in tourism fo...

• MP challenges Arts Council England on queerupnorth decision

  Posted on Friday January 18th, 2008 at 04:08 in gay events festivals, queerupnorth

  Plans to cut funding for a popular gay and lesbian arts festival have been criticised by MPs. Arts Council England is to end its funding of queerupnorth in March, meaning the end of the organisation and its annual festival in Manchester. John Leech, ...

• Arts Council threat to queerupnorth festival

  Posted on Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 14:32 in gay events festivals, queerupnorth

  Arts Council England has announced plans to end its annual funding of queerupnorth in March 2008. This will lead to the cancellation of the 2008 festival in Manchester, halt all future touring plans, end their unique programme of work for young peopl...

• Stonewall awards

  Posted on Friday November 2nd, 2007 at 04:54 in gay events festivals, stonewall

  The Second Stonewall Awards ceremony, hosted by TV presenter Anthony Crank, took place at London’s V&A last night before an audience of 400 people.The star-studded event, sponsored for the second year by Barclays, celebrated the positive contributi...

• One million attend gay parade in Rio

  Posted on Tuesday October 16th, 2007 at 06:46 in Brazil, gay events festivals, gay pride

• Manchester Price raises £95,000 for charity

  Posted on Monday October 15th, 2007 at 08:16 in manchester, gay events festivals, gay pride

  The city of Manchester's ten day Pride celebration in August raised £95,000 for charity, it has been revealed. Organisers estimate that 200,000 people watched the main Pride march through the city centre, while 40,000 tickets were sold for the Big W...

• Candlelit vigil closes Manchester Pride

  Posted on Tuesday August 28th, 2007 at 03:49 in manchester, gay events festivals, hiv aids, gay pride

  Hundreds of people attended a candlelit vigil in Greater Manchester to remember those who have lost their lives to the HIV virus. The event on Monday marked the end of the Manchester Pride 2007 festival. The vigil - now one of the largest in the worl...

• Police take lead in Pride parade

  Posted on Saturday August 25th, 2007 at 10:26 in manchester, gay events festivals, gay pride

  More than 130 police officers and staff from forces around the country have taken part in the parade at Manchester's Gay Pride festival. A police band made up of officers from Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside led the procession. Thousands...

• Stonewall Awards to be held at V&A

  Posted on Wednesday August 15th, 2007 at 11:18 in gay events festivals, stonewall

  Gay equality organisation Stonewall has announced that its second annual awards ceremony will be held on November 1st at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.They will be presented by Doctor Who and Any Dream Will Do star John Barrowman, who won En...

• Sao Paulo holds Gay Pride parade

  Posted on Monday June 11th, 2007 at 02:00 in Brazil, gay events festivals, gay pride

  Hundreds of thousands of gay, lesbian, transgendered and transvestite people have taken part in a Gay Pride parade in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.Organisers said the number of people taking part had exceeded last year's record of 2.5 million marc...