Pride is approaching and the team here at Escapade cannot wait to join the parade in kaleidoscope colour! With numerous events taking place throughout the UK and Europe there are many colourful and vibrant ways to celebrate life and show support for the LGBT communities! Read our Guide to Pride and don’t miss out on the rainbow shenanigans.
Birmingham
When: 25th -26th May 2019
Where: Birmingham Gay Village
Theme: ‘Love Out Loud’
Adult Weekend Tickets: £43.45-£83.60
Birmingham pride will be held in the heart of the Gay village and will be featuring a main stage with fantastic acts such as Years & Years, Lady Leshurr, Kate Nash and Mabel as well as a main stage, a dance area, a carnival parade, a cabaret marquee, markets stalls and a magnificent street parade of course.
This year’s theme is ‘Love Out Loud’ celebrating our right to love ourselves as well as other people, and to do it LOUD! No matter what your gender, sexuality, identity, colour, religion or race, everybody deserves to love and to be loved.
You can purchase tickets here.
Oxford
When: 17th May-2nd June
Where: Oxford Town Hall
Theme: TBA
Tickets: Free
Oxford Pride is an annual 10-day festival with the main event falling on the first weekend of June. It starts with a beautiful and colourful parade-taking place through the main city centre and brings everyone together in a welcoming and inclusive environment. This will take place on the 1st June.
York
When: 8th June
More Details TBA
London
When: 6th July
Where: West End
Tickets: Free
Pride in London is an annual parade of fun colour and glitter championing the LGBTQ and takes place through the heart of the West End and to further celebrate there is a two-week city wide Festival that takes place before Pride weekend. Pride is one of the most colourful and extravagant events around and is a fantastic occasion to celebrate the LGBTQ community as well as dress up in the most outrageous, colourful and fun filled costumes imaginable.
Expect Colourful floats featuring the diverse talents from the LGBTQ community including those from our favourite theatre and cabaret shows, tours, exhibitions, conferences, museum events and much more. Of course there will be much more planned for this year but all will be revealed as a magnificent surprise when Pride starts.
Bristol
When: 1st-14th July
Where: Bristol Harbourside
Tickets: Free
Hull
When: 20th July
Where: Queens Gardens
Tickets: Free
Another colourful event starting off with a parade featuring street artists and special performances from Back to Ours as well as everyday heroes from local organisations and even you of course! The parade goes right through the city centre and finishes off at the Queens gardens where the party really begins. Last year saw a gathering of over 1500 people in the pride parade and this year is set to be even bigger and better. Expect a park full of entertainment, music, food and drink for all to enjoy. There will also be stall and organisations giving out information and lots of goodies.
Belfast
When: 25th July-4th August
Where: Belfast City Hall
Belfast Pride will run from Thursday 25th July to Sunday 4th August with Pride day landing on Saturday 3rd August starting at 1pm and followed by a party at Custom House Square and Pride Village at Donegall Quay. The parade is one of the biggest festivals in Belfast and runs over 100 events across 10 days.
EuroPride-Stockholm
When: 29th July-3rd August
Where: Pride House and Pride Park
Tickets: 600,00kr
EuroPride 2019 will be starting off in
Expect pride hubs and
Tickets can be purchased here.
Liverpool Pride
When: 28th-29th July
Where: St George’s Hall & St Johns Gardens
Tickets: Free
Liverpool Pride was born from a tragedy of the murder of a young gay man, Michael Causer in 2008. It is a volunteer led charity that aims to combat homophobia and transphobia across the Liverpool region and beyond with their core values being that they are free, inclusive, visible and all about Liverpool. The festival weekend will bring together big names from music and entertainment as well as many local bands and artists across three stages as well as a colourful march through the city centre, passing many iconic landmarks.
Brighton and Hove
When: 2nd–4th August
Where: Preston Park
Headliners: Kylie Minogue, Grace Jones, Jessie J, Clean Bandit, plus more
Weekend Tickets: £59.95
Brighton Pride festival boasts one of the most popular LGBTQ festivals around and is a celebration of all that is wonderful about the Brighton and Hove community.
Held in Preston Park, the Brighton Pride Festival is an all inclusive community celebration and unforgettable fundraising event which over the years has featured spectacular performances from pop sensations including Boy George, Fat Boy Slim and Katy B to name but a few.
This year Pride will feature the amazing headliners Kylie Minogue, Grace Jones and Jessie J but will also be an afternoon packed full of family entertainment, circus skills, cabaret and much more with the aims of raising funds and awareness for the LGBTQ community. In the last few years, Pride has raised over £455,000 for local good causes.
The theme this year will be ‘Genereations of Love-celebrating 50 years of campaigning with Pride’ as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising that ignited the Pride movement
Tickets can be purchased here.
EuroPride-Gothenburg
When: 14th August-19th August 2018
Where: Gotheburg
Doncaster Pride
When: 17th August
Tickets: Free
Where: Sir Nigel Gresley Square, Waterdale
Expect another street festival exploding with colour and music. Traditionally held in celebration of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community, in recent years Pride in Doncaster has become a celebration of unity but specifically attracts an audience of which around two thirds identifying as gay.
Warwickshire Pride
When: 17th August
Where: Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa
Tickets: Free
The first Warwickshire Pride took place in 2013 on Saturday 31st August and was organised by local LGBT activist and businessman Daniel Browne who had a vision one morning and told himself that he would put on a festival in three months time. It actually happened with around 2,000 people coming out to support the first Warwickshire Pride. Since then it has only got bigger and better, welcoming thousands of people each year for a colourful event consisting of music, fairground rides and a fabulous after party.
What to wear:
No matter which rainbow shenanigans you will be partaking in, pride is all about rainbow colour and fun. Here are just a few of our fancy dress ideas to get you involved in the rainbow madness!
From left to right: Unicorn wig, Rainbow Tutu, Rainbow Colour Skirt Bustle, Starbite Monster Costume
From left to right: Johnson Willy Inflatable Costume , Inflatable Muscle Man Costume , Inflatable Duck Costume, Inflatable Giant Willy Costume, Inflatable Ride On T-Rex Dinosaur Costume, Inflatable Ballerina Costume