Recent Posts Tagged With 'gay pride'

• 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...

• 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...

• House of Commons marks decriminalisation

  Posted on Wednesday July 25th, 2007 at 08:39 in gay heritage, gay pride

  MPs from across the political divide have signed an Early Day Motion celebrating the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. The EDM was sponsored by Stephen Williams, the Liberal Democrat MP for Brist...

• 70 Years After Nazi Pogrom, Hamburg Celebrates Gay Pride

  Posted on Thursday July 12th, 2007 at 17:43 in Germany, nazis, gay heritage, gay pride

  July is gay pride month in Germany, overshadowed this year by the 70th anniversary of the gay pogrom in Germany. New documents reveal that almost 55,000 gay men met their deaths in Nazi Germany.Thousands of marchers will take part in the Christopher...

• European Pride roundup

  Posted on Sunday July 8th, 2007 at 07:27 in gay pride

  Croatia - Police said they arrested eight people on Saturday after violence marred a Gay Pride march through the centre of the Croatian capital Zagreb.Organisers said more than 20 marchers had been the target of homophobic attacks. "Around 10 people...

• Spanish sun shines on Europride

  Posted on Monday July 2nd, 2007 at 06:15 in spain, gay pride, europride

  As London Pride was being battered by torrential rain, our luckier Continental cousins were basking in the sunshine of Madrid summer's day as they took to the streets to celebrate Europride.Nearly fifty floats, one of them from Manchester, paraded th...

• Gay Pride across Europe

  Posted on Saturday June 30th, 2007 at 18:59 in gay pride

  Gay Pride marchers have taken to the streets across the continent. In Madrid demonstrators assembled outside the Polish embassy to protest against the treatment of gay people in the former communist state.While in Paris it was a chance to dress up an...

• Bad weather fails to stop Pride

  Posted on Saturday June 30th, 2007 at 13:06 in gay pride

  Thousands marched from Baker Street to Trafalgar Square despite the bad weather....

• Gays love Eurovision

  Posted on Saturday June 30th, 2007 at 03:22 in amnesty international, gay pride

  A mock Eurovision song contest will be staged today afternoon though the streets of central London as part of the Pride London gay parade.Organised by Amnesty International, who famously had a pink tank in the parade two years ago, today's 'Eurovisio...

• Maupin to show London Pride

  Posted on Friday June 29th, 2007 at 07:02 in Liverpool, gay pride, armistead maupin

  Gay icon Armistead Maupin is to take to the stage at tomorrow's London Pride event in Trafalgar Square.The author, whose Tales of the City books about gay life in 1970s and 80s San Francisco have been compared to the work of Dickens [?], is making a...

• London's gay community will march despite car bomb find

  Posted on Friday June 29th, 2007 at 06:06 in gay pride

  Organisers of the biggest gay parade in the UK have confirmed that it will go ahead tomorrow.The discovery of a car bomb on the route had cast doubt on whether the London Pride parade would go ahead.However, Metropolitan police sources have confirmed...

• RAF uniforms banned from London Pride

  Posted on Tuesday June 26th, 2007 at 07:32 in military, gay pride

  The Royal Air Force has announced that personnel who wear uniform to march in the Pride parade in London will face disciplinary action.A letter from Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, the Chief of the Air Staff [pictured below], to station commanders...

• Pride celebrated in Berlin and Dublin

  Posted on Saturday June 23rd, 2007 at 14:06 in berlin, gay pride

  Tens of thousands of people have marched through Berlin as part of the city's annual gay pride parade. Wearing colourful costumes, they took to the streets to dance, sing and celebrate gay and lesbian life. Despite the adverse weather conditions, som...

• 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...