After two years on hold, the LGBTQ+ community has lots of celebrating to catch up on. Therefore, Pride in Hull has planned something extra special to celebrate 50 years of Pride in the UK and 21 years in Hull.
Initially, planned to take place in West Park, the venue change was announced at the end of June following confirmation of fixtures for Hull City AFC. Pride in Hull will be held in the aptly named, Queen’s Gardens.
To celebrate 50 years of Pride in the UK and 21 years in Hull, Pride in Hull is hosting a special event for the LGBT+ community and allies, across Hull and East Yorkshire.
Queen’s Gardens on Saturday 30 July, Pride Party in the Park will be an additional event following the Parade and Pride in Hull.
An online exhibition, celebrating Pride in Hull, launches this weekend.
The popular annual event, that sees tens of thousands of people gather in Hull City Centre to promote diversity and equality, is being celebrated with a new digital exhibition.
Pride in Hull will be celebrated this year through a new online exhibition hosted by Hull Museums, working with both Pride in Hull and Yorkshire MESMAC, and organisers want you to be part of it.
Pride in Our City will feature people’s pictures, stories, videos, and memories of the annual event as well as documenting individuals’ experiences of being part of the LGBT+ community.
Pride in Hull has launched its bid to bring EuroPride – the biggest LGBTI celebration in Europe – to the city in 2023.
EuroPride takes place in a different host city every year, attracting hundreds of thousands of attendees from across the continent – and the world – to celebrate all things LGBTI.
Save the date for the most colourful day of the year: Pride in Hull will be back on July 25, 2020 – with pop icon Louise and RuPaul’s DragRace UK finalist Divina De Campo the first big-name acts to be revealed.
Pride in Hull, the free and inclusive one-day celebration of the LGBT+ community, will be returning to Queens Gardens for its 19th outing on July 25 with a line-up that once again features something for everyone.
City and cultural leaders have welcomed the publication of an independent evaluation of Hull’s year in the spotlight as UK City of Culture 2017, which confirms the continuing impact the title has had on the city.
The report, published by the University of Hull, says “the most significant impact of all” was an estimated £676m of new private and public investment that was generated for the city.
Beverley Police Station will join others stations in the region and across to the UK in raising the LGBTQ flag this afternoon as they look to show their support for the LGBT community.
This is the first time Humberside Police have taken part in such an activity something they say is significant for both the police and local LBGT Community.
Following their spectacular 50 Queers for 50 Years piece in the Pride in Hull parade this weekend, leading arts and performance company Duckie will return to Hull this Saturday (29 July) to present A Duckie Summer Tea Party.
Duckie helped kick off Hull UK City of Culture’s LGBT 50 celebrations in style this weekend at the first ever UK Pride. After taking up residency in Hull, Duckie spent the last couple of months working with members of the LGBT community to create 50 handmade LGBT+ icons.
Pride in Hull has teamed up with local artists Chris Kidd and Mikey Mathieson of Embryonic Art to produce a unique image of some of Hull’s most recognisable architecture.
The bold print, which adds a splash of rainbow to the skyline, is a limited edition, signed and numbered run of 500 priced at £25 each.
Award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari returns to Hull later this month as part of Hull UK City of Culture’s LGBT 50 celebrations, and writers from the city are being invited to take part.
Following a hugely popular event in November 2016, Polari host and curator, critically-acclaimed Paul Burston brings his celebration of emerging and established LGBT writers back to Kardomah94 on Thursday 27 July at the invitation of Pride in Hull.
Hull City Council has been awarded £15m of National Lottery money to help secure Hull’s future as a major UK tourist destination.
Building on its success as UK City of Culture 2017, this historic maritime city will reclaim and share every element of its past by developing three important sites: the Maritime Museum; the Dock Office Chambers and the North End Shipyard; and two historic vessels, the Arctic Corsair and Spurn Lightship.
Pride in Hull are delighted to announce that Irish pop sensations B*Witched and drag superstar La Voix will be entertaining audiences in Queen’s Gardens on Saturday 22 July as part of Pride in Hull’s spectacular show that kick-starts Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 week.
The latest additions are joining an already packed line-up featuring Marc Almond, Sonia, Cleopatra and many more.
Tickets for the closing concert of a week-long celebration in Hull marking the 50th anniversary of sexual freedom in the UK go on sale on Friday (23 June).
Coinciding with Hull’s status as UK City of Culture 2017, the 50th anniversary of the start of decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK will be marked with LGBT 50, presented by Hull 2017 in association with Sewell Group and supported by Spirit of 2012.
A new play that has been specially commissioned by Pride in Hull explores what it means to be a young LGBT person in the city.
Based on real-life, local stories, Lads & Lasses has been written by Aidan Thompson-Coates of Hull-based ApposArts and will be performed for the first time on Monday 24 July at Fruit in Humber Street as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 programme, a celebration of LGBT+ culture across the arts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
Music and sculpture will take the stage at NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) Annual General Meeting.
The CCG is delighted to invite people in Hull to join them in a celebration of a year in healthcare. The event marks the CCG’s fourth year in local healthcare and will take place at the Guildhall, Alfred Gelder Street in Hull on Wednesday 28 June.
London’s award-winning celebration of emerging and established LGBT writers, Polari, returns to Hull in July at the invitation of Pride in Hull as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 celebrations, presented in partnership with the Sewell Group.
Following a hugely popular event in November 2016, this highly acclaimed literary salon, hosted and curated by critically acclaimed author Paul Burston, will be held in the city once again at Kardomah94 on Thursday 27 July.
