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.”

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...

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. 

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Get ready for the Bourne Free, Bournemouth's annual Pride Festival.

This year there is a Wild West theme so get your cowboy and indian outfits at the ready! Check out the Big Gay Wild West Shop for costumes, fancy dress and Pride stuff. 

An entry wristband is required for events in The Triangle on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Get yours in advance for £5 (plus 50p booking fee) on the website (www.bournefree.co.uk) or in the White Tiger store in The Triangle. Wristbands can be bought on the gate during Bourne Free for £10.

Check out full the Bourne Free line up:

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Norwich Pride celebrated IDAHO day with a Kiss In - and they had coverage from BBC Radio Norfolk and the Norwich Evening News.

The IDAHO Kiss In is just one of a packed programme of events being held in the run-up to the second Norwich Pride, which is on Saturday 31st July 2010.

On the last Saturday in July Norwich Pride will have stalls and lectures at the Norwich Forum; a picnic at Chapelfield Gardens and a parade through the city to Millennium Plain for speeches and entertainment.

There will also be parties, events and exhibitions in venues across the city. Visitors and residents alike can expect loads of fun at gay friendly pubs in the city. There will be more variety than ever, with films at Cinema City, comedy at the Playhouse, and cabaret and bands at the Norwich Arts Centre.

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