Celebrate your sexuality with a Pride party near you! Every year there are more and more events so there’s no excuse to let your hair down, put a whistle in your mouth and blow like buggery! And remember, it's never too early to start sewing those sequins on to your outfits?! After all: we’re here, we’re queer, now let’s go shopping…
March
National Student Pride: 6 March 2010, www.studentpride.co.uk
International Women's Day: 8 March 2010, www.internationalwomensday.com
Brighton Winter Pride: cancelled for 2010, www.brightonpride.org
Lighthouse Gala Auction: 22 March 2010, www.tht.org.uk
Exeter Pride: 27 March 2010, www.exeterpride.co.uk
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: 17-31 March 2010, www.llgff.org.uk
April
Stonewall Equality Dinner: 15 April 2010, www.stonewall.org.uk
Bifest Wales: 24 April 2010, www.bicymru.btik.com
May
Great British Bear Bash: 1 May 2010, www.manbears.co.uk
Stonewall Equality Walk Brighton: 2 May 2010, www.stonewall.org.uk
Dublin Gay Theatre Festival: 3-16 May 2010, www.gaytheatre.ie
Queer Up North: 12-25 May 2010, www.queerupnorth.com
International Day Against Homophobia: 17 May 2010, www.homophobiaday.org
LGCM Annual Conference: 15 May 2010, www.lgcm.org.uk
Blackpool Pride: 15-16 May 2010, www.prideblackpool.com
European Gay Rugby Union Cup: next event will be in 2011, www.unioncup.com
Bear Pride: 27-31 May 2010, www.bearpride.co.uk
Birmingham Gay Pride Festival: 29 May 2010, www.birminghampride.com
Bradford Pride: tba (30 May 2009), www.equitypartnership.org.uk
June
Bristol Bear Fiesta: 4-6 June 2010, www.bristolbearfiesta.co.uk.
Pride Games Manchester: 6-13 June 2010, www.pridegames.org
Crusaid's Walk For Life: 6 June 2010, www.walkforlife.co.uk
Torbay Pride: 11-13 June 2010, www.pridetorbay.org
Oxford Pride: 12 June 2010, www.oxfordpride.org.uk
Pride London Festival:18 June-4 July 2010, www.pridelondon.org
Pride Scotia: 26 June 2010, www.pride-scotia.org
Suffolk Pride: 20 June 2010, www.suffolkpride.co.uk
Sheffield Pride: 26 June 2010, www.sheffieldpride.org.uk
Gloucestershire Pride: 26 June 2010, www.gloucestershirepride.org.uk
Swansea Pride: 26 June 2010, www.swanseapride.com
Worcester Pride: 26 June 2010, www.worcesterpride.co.uk
Outburst UK Black Pride: tba (27 June 2009), www.outburstfestival.org
Dublin Pride: 26 June 2010, www.dublinpride.org
July
Derby Goes Pink: 10 July 2010, www.derbygoespink.com
Pride London: 3 July 2010, www.pridelondon.org
EuroPride Warsaw: 9-18 July 2010, www.europride2010.eu
Sparkle: National Transgendered Celebration: 9-11 July 2010, www.sparkle.org.uk
Bourne Free Pride Festival: 9-11 July 2010, www.bournefree.co.uk.
Lewisham People's Day: 10 July 2010, www.lewisham.gov.uk/Peoplesday
Northern Pride - Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 17 July 2010, www.npride.org.uk
Thanet Pride: 17 July 2010, www.thanetpride.co.uk
Pride Glasgow: 17 July 2010, www.prideglasgow.co.uk
Belfast Pride: 24-31 July 2010, www.belfastpride.com
Huddersfield Pink Picnic: 25 July 2010, www.huddersfieldpinkpicnic.com
Hull Pride: 31 July 2010, www.hullpride.org.uk
Brighton Festival Week: 31 July–8 August 2010, www.brightonpride.org
Norwich Pride: 31 July 2010, www.norwichpride.org.uk
Nottingham Pride: 31 July 2010, www.nottinghampride.co.uk
Gay Games Cologne: 31 July-7 August 2010, www.gaygamescologne.com
August
World OutGames: 3-11 August 2013 in Antwerp, www.woga2013.org
Pride In Brighton & Hove: 7 August 2010, www.brightonpride.org
Leeds Pride: 1 August 2010, www.leedspride.com
Liverpool Pride: 7 August 2010, www.liverpoolpride.co.uk
Stoke Pride: 14 August 2010: www.gaystoke.org.uk
Swindon Pride: 14 August 2010, www.swindonpride.com
London Pride Run: 14 August 2010, www.londonpriderun.org
UK Black Pride: 14 August 2010, www.ukblackpride.org.uk
Manchester Pride: 20-30 August 2010, www.manchesterpride.com
Doncaster Pride: 21 August 2010, www.doncasterpride.co.uk
Lincoln Pride: 21 August 2010, www.lincolnpride.co.uk
Bristol Pride: 21 August 2010, www.pridebristol.com
Pink Festival Cambridge: 21 August 2010, www.pinkfestival.com
Plymouth Pride: there is no event in 2010 (22 August 2009), www.plymouthprideevent.co.uk
Cornwall Gay Pride: 28 August 2010, www.cornwallpride.co.uk
Foyle Pride: 28 August 2010, www.foylepride.org
GMFA Sports Day: 30 August 2010, www.gmfa.org.uk/sportsday
September
Cardiff Mardi Gras: 4 September 2010, www.cardiffmardigras.co.uk
Reading Pride: 4 September 2010, www.readingpride.co.uk
Hackney Pride March: 4 September 2010, outeast.org.uk
Essex Pride (Chelmsford): 5 September 2010, www.essexpride.org.uk
Barnsley Pride: 5 September 2010, www.barnsleypride.org.uk
Soho Pink Sunday: 12 September 2010
October
Glasgay: 13 October-13 November 2010, www.glasgay.co.uk
Cardiff Gay Short Film Festival: 6-9 October 2010, www.irisprize.org
November
THT Supper Club: tba (3 November 2009), www.tht.org.uk
Homotopia: 1-30 November 2010, www.homotopia.net.
Stonewall Awards: tba, (15 April 09), www.stonewall.org.uk
GFest: 8-21 November 2010, www.gaywisefestival.org.uk
Outburst: tba (12-21 November 2009), www.outburstarts.com
December
World AIDS Day: 1 December 2010, www.worldaidsday.org
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