Annual national four-day bisexual convention/conference with sessions, craft space, quiet space, and entertainments including a DIY silent disco and a Saturday night ball. Residential and non-residential tickets available, all bi-friendly people welcome, helping hand fund available.
We are delighted to confirm that we are pushing ahead with our plans for the first ever Arran Pride on 4th June 2022 and have made great progress with all the required planning and form filling etc. to ensure we have a safe, successful, fun-filled family event. The programme ‘Celebrate and Educate’ is:
SheBoom (Europe’s largest Female Drumming Band) will lead the Parade/Procession from Market Road, Brodick, along the Main Street starting at 12.30 with various Charities along with other people and organisations and will be followed by the Isle of Arran Pipe Band, to turn right in to the Invercloy Coop car entrance and walk through the car park to the entrance to the Brodick Hall Park.
When we arrive at 13:00 we will have a bring your own, ‘picnic in the park’ with recorded music and speeches and with information stalls and a Library of People telling their individual stories in Brodick Library. The Picnic will close at 16:00.
Later that day we are having a ticketed (£12/£8) fundraising Ceilidh in the Brodick Hall from 19:30 until 00:00 to help fund the day and also for future events and celebrate-what we hope will be a great day?
You are invited to a lunchtime webinar on Thursday 24 February 2022 from 12:30-13:30, at which Lancashire LGBT’s Community Support Worker Beth Meadows will be in conversation with Daniele Lul from Parapride.
Sex and sexuality are favourite topics among mainstream LGBTQ+ society, however, disability is frequently left out of the conversations. Is disability considered incompatible to sex-related topics?
During this event will be talking about disability and sex positivity around different bodies, and being able to express ourselves freely.
‘Dis-section’, (disability section), is an inclusive and safe digital space brought to you by Parapride; as the name suggests phonetically, we ‘dissect’ and scrutinise topics that are often not talked about in the wider LGBTQ+ society.
Along with our line up of expert panellists we will converse openly, honestly and respectfully about disability, intimacy, sex, love & dating, the gay hook-up culture, as well as the stigmas and taboo that surround these aspects of our disabled community.
We will provide BSL interpreters and live closed captions, and descriptive language will be used.
Parapride is an empowerment charity that advocates for the visibility, education and awareness of LGBTQ+ disabled people. We are a non-profit registered charity entirely run by volunteers. Your generous donations will help us produce more events like this one. Please continue to support us.
You can donate through our website https://parapride.org/
This event is funded by LGBT Consortium.
At our next meeting for Members, Joe Galliano, founder of Queer Britain LGBTQ+ Museum, will be sharing the latest news about this exciting project.
It will be held at Soho Square Health Centre, 1 Frith Street, W1D 3HZ.
If you’re not a Member of the Forum, it’s free to join so do so now by visiting our website (https://www.westminsterlgbtforum.org/friends.html).
A reminder will be sent to all those on our mailing list nearer the time.
Join us for our Conversational English Classes every Wednesday 11am-1pm at 86 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DN!
These are designed for anyone identifying as LGBT+ who wants to improve their spoken English.
All levels are welcome and no sign up necessary.
Read our COVID safety regulations here: londonfriend.org.uk/covid-19-safety-regulations
