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Leicester Pride is the annual festival for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Pride celebrates the diversity and vitality of the community in Leicestershire.

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Gay Leicester

Use our guide to Leicester for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Events and entertainments - our day by day guide is available to tell you what is happening in the city and where and when.

If you just want places to go, our Leicester Gay Guide gives details of where gay people will feel at home at various bars, clubs and other venues.

News just in

Leicester gay pride 2009

Go to the Gay Pride 2009 web site

Quebec Club has announced plans to run a gay pride event in Leicester in September 2009. According to the Quebec web site an event is provisionally planned for September 5th next year. The announcement was made by the management team of Quebec Club and The Village bar. They plan to organise a parade from the new Highcross shopping centre and hold a street party on Belgrave Gate.

We will bring you more news as it comes in.

Centre in bid to save Leicester Pride?

After the flurry of activity for last week's Celebrate 2008 event, an open meeting was held last night (6th October) for anyone interested in getting involved with planning future Pride events in Leicester .

The meeting was well attended and a core group of volunteers have now come forward to look at the feasibility of reviving Pride in the city.

If you did not attend the meeting but would like to be involved follow this link to download an expression of interest form. (opens a Word .doc file).

Meeting about Hospital services for gay people.

A consultation has been organised to find out what gay people think about the services they receive from the NHS and Leicester's hospitals.

Action to stamp out homophobia

A new initiative has been launched in a bid to tackle crime against the gay community

celebrate 2008 a week of events

Celebrate 2008

A week of events celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland.

4 poofs and a piano

4 Poofs and a piano coming to Leicester

Full details from our Events page

What's new in gay Leicester?

Quebec and StreetLife join up!

Also together at last, are StreetLife - now a club night rather than a venue - and Quebec Club. Now Streetlife has joined forces with Quebec and the weekly club nights will be held at the Quebec building in Belgrave Gate.

Rainbow and Dover join up!

Find out more on our Gay Guide page

If you are a student, check out our student's and young people's guide to Leicester.

If your into the gay scene, then we list just about everything.

If your not into the scene, check out our gay person's guide to straight Leicester.

Civil Partnerships

See our page about gay marriage in Leicester/shire.

Gay rights

Hotels banned from turning away gays

See our Community Tent for local organisations that help and support the LGBT community.

Gay students - check out the student web sites on our links page.

Credits

Thanks to Trevor Sewell for taking the photos for Pride 2005 and 2006

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Leicester Gay Pride

Welcome to the archieve of the Leicester Pride web site

This is an archive copy of what used to be the web site for Leicester Pride. This web site has been placed here to provide access to those who have an historical interest in the event organised by Leicester Pride between 2000 and 2006.

A new group is now planning to provide events for the gay community in Leicester

Celebrate Gay Leicester

Find out things with our gay and lesbian links and information page - other gay prides in the East Midlands - queer history - students - fetish scene - entertainment.

The last Leicester Pride took place on Saturday 24th June 2006

Over 10,000 people enjoyed this warm, summer festival of celebration with Leicester's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered community.

Leicester Pride 2007 was cancelled due to shortage of funds and support. There are no known plans for a gay and lesbian festival in Leicester in 2008. But if that changes, details will appear on this web site.

A successful event ... a great party ... a happy celebration

Warm dry weather, a well organised event that ran smoothly, lots of people to see and to meet, music, live entertainment, a colourful carnival Parade, Leicester Pride offered a lot for the people of Leicester.

Photos 2006

The last Leicester Pride took place in 2006 and here are the photo galleries now on line - click here

One fabulous weekend of parties

Apart from local residents, Pride was attended by people from all over the UK. Many stayed over night in our local hotels, spent money in our local shops, visited bars, clubs and venues ... contributed to the economy of the city.

A free public festival costs a lot of money to organise and stage but visitors bring revenue into the city and the event contributes to the life and diversity of Leicester.

Lord Mayor of Leicester condemns homophobia

Lord Mayor of Leicester opens Pride 2006Councillor Paul Westley, Lord Mayor of Leicester, officially opened the Leicester Pride Festival. In his address of welcome on behalf of the people of Leicester, Cllr Westley condemned homophobia. He called on those who have homophobic attitudes to keep quiet and not to set out to offend gay and lesbian members of the community.

Gay people, he said, were an established part of Leicester's diverse cultural heritage and have secured equal rights with other groups of people. There is no place in modern society for homophobic atittudes, which deprive gay people of the rights they have secured under the law.

Volunteers did a great job!

Over 100 people worked hard on Saturday to make the event happen. It was well organised and ran smoothly, thanks to the very strenuous efforts of the volunteer team. To everyone who helped on Saturday a HUGE THANK YOU - go to our Leicester Volunteers page.

Recollections

Read about the first ever Pride event in Leicester - 15 years ago.

More news

Find out about Leicester Pride Ltd

 

 

 

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual The Centre

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Leicester LGBT Helpline will be open on Tuesday 23rd December, 7.30-10pm. The Helpline will not operate over the festive period but will reopen 7.30-10pm on Thursday 8 th January 2009 . Call 0116 2550667 to reach the helpline.

See our photogalleries of pride 2006

See our Festivals page

and our news page

Staying over night in Leicester?

See our hotels page

See our links page for details of other local organisations and Prides around the Midlands and Nationally.

Gay shopping

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Visit the new Leicester Pride Shopping Centre

for clothes, entertainment, weddings and general goods.

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Trade Gay Community Health Project
Proud to sponsor Leicester Pride

Full list of 2005 Pride Sponsors