Boney M. to Replace Samantha Mumba for Pride in Liverpool
Disco legends, Boney M, featuring Maizie Williams, are set to take the top slot on the Barclays Main Stage at Pride in Liverpool this weekend, replacing Samantha Mumba, who will now not be able to perform at the festival due to difficulty with travel from the US. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the Caribbean foursome […]
Pride in Liverpool 2022: Everything You Need To Know
Pride in Liverpool returns to the city this Saturday 30th July, starting with the annual March with Pride from St George’s Plateau to the festival’s site for 2022, the Pier Head on the city’s historic waterfront (12noon – 8:00pm). The Pride in Liverpool event is fenced but is FREE and you do not need tickets […]
A Chat With Matt Youngs and Daniel Burgess from Rathbones
This week we chat to Matt Youngs and Daniel Burgess from investment management company Rathbones – one of our latest Pride in Liverpool festival supporters. We find out more about why the company has decided to support the festival, how it makes space for LGBT+ staff and clients, and what Pride means to them. First […]
Samantha Mumba to headline Pride in Liverpool 2022
Our headliner has been updated, with Boney M. replacing Samantha Mumba on the Barclays Main Stage, read the full story here. Irish pop legend Samantha Mumba will headline this year’s Pride in Liverpool festival, with a performance on the Barclays Main Stage at the city’s Pier Head on Saturday 30th July. The multi-talented singer, composer, […]
A Chat With: Merseyside Peer Action Collective (PAC)
This week, we have a chat with the Merseyside Peer Action Collective (PAC), a team of young people from across the region who are conducting peer research and social action with people aged 10-20, with the aim of reducing youth violence. PAC is part of a national initiative of young people hired to research the […]
Pride in Liverpool 2022 Moves To Pier Head
Liverpool’s annual Pride event, which is supported by Barclays, will move to a new site on the world-famous waterfront for 2022. LCR Pride Foundation, the organisation responsible for delivering Pride in Liverpool, has announced that this year’s free festival will move from its usual site on Tithebarn Street to Liverpool’s world-famous Pier Head. Pride in […]
A Chat With: Leo Welton
This week, ahead of Queer the City NML Xtra on Saturday 2nd July, we chat to freelance graphic designer and artist Leo Welton, who works predominantly with clients in the arts and culture sector. They tell us about their involvement in the Queer the City project, thier own workshops that will take place on the […]
Rainbow Container Tour Marks Pride Sponsorship
Maersk returns as Festival Supporter for 2022 after supporting Pride in Liverpool in 2019 Global integrated logistics company A.P. Moller – Maersk has marked its second year supporting Pride in Liverpool as a Festival Supporter, by making the city the first public stop on its 2022 Pride Month rainbow container roadshow. The 3.7 tonne container, […]
A Chat With: Pride at the Seaside
New Brighton’s first ever Pride – Pride at the Seaside – is just a few months away, so we had a chat with community organiser and freelance photographer, Jamie Lee Carter, to find out all about this brand new event, the inspiration behind it and how you can get involved Jamie, you’re a community organiser […]
Monkeypox: “We should be reporting the facts and directing people to support”
United Nations’ Aids agency (UNAIDS) recently denounced some current reporting on the monkeypox virus outbreak as “homophobic” and “racist”. A disproportionate amount of focus has been on cases identified in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men and African people who have contracted monkeypox. However. the virus has not previously been described […]