Pride News

It's Bournemouth’s pride festival this weekend but police have warned party-goers they may be arrest if they carry realistic toy guns.

Bourne Free has a "Wild West" theme this year with the festival starting on Thursday. It will see people wearing cowboy and indian outfits. Dorset Police said anyone carrying a gun that is too realistic needs a firearms licence and the event organisers are urgently spreading the warning.

Jonathan Spencer from Bourne Free, has said, “We gave the police our proposals in February, but we were only told about this last week. I’ve had to phone round all the fancy dress shops.”

Read more: Guns Banned at Bournemouth Pride

The Walk with Pride (WWP) project will include London Pride 2010 in its international photo collection.  London Pride is the twelfth parade to be documented by the WWP project, and images will be shown alongside those from Taipei, Manila, Sydney, Vilnius, Minsk, Bucharest, Moscow, Athens, Turkey, Zagreb, and Sofia.

The project’s intention is to visualize the struggles and celebrations of the global gay community in over 20 countries.  While imagery often celebrates the colorful atmosphere of parades, the project also displays the diversity of the international LGBT community. Images and stories from each parade can be seen on the project’s website, with the collection is to be published at the completion of the year long project. 

Read more: London Pride to be Photographed by the Walk with Pride Project

Dublin is gearing up for one of the most colourful celebrations in Europe as people come from across the world to celebrate Dublin Pride.

From the festival launch night on the 18th June, until the Parade Day on the 26th, Dublin’s Pride Festival aims to offer events for all tastes and age-groups.

More 5,000 lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender people are expected to turn out for the parade with thousands more taking part in the nine days of events leading up to the parade.

Read more: Getting Ready for Dublin Pride

On 3 July, GMFA, the gay men’s health charity, will be handing out free condoms and lube in designer travelcard wallets to the thousands of party-goers at Pride London. So if you’re planning to take the fun back to the bedroom on Pride night, be sure to stock up on your safer sex essentials.

The condom-holding travelcard wallets encourage men to ‘Ride Safely’. With a funky new red design, which supports the Pride theme of ‘painting the town ruby red’, the wallets are a must-have accessory for gay guys around town this Summer. You can pick them up from GMFA volunteers along the parade route, or from the GMFA stall at Trafalgar Square. GMFA’s volunteers will be kitted out in ruby red T-shirts and will march with placards emblazoned with safer sex messages.

The ‘robotic’ gay motif for the T-shirts and wallets was designed by Lazaros Kakoulidis, a design student at the London College of Communication. He won GMFA’s competition to find a contemporary design fitting for this year’s Pride parade. 

Read more: Free Condom Hand Out at Pride London