Disney’s Aladdin star to bring magic to Southampton Pride with special performance of Proud of Your Boy

Disney’s Aladdin is celebrating the upcoming run of its highly acclaimed show at Mayflower Theatre with a special performance of its iconic number, Proud of Your Boy, by Aaron Elijah Patel at the Southampton Pride Stage, Guildhall Square on Saturday 24 August. Julianne Watling-McCarthy, Director of Southampton Pride CIC explains:...

Trans Pride Southampton returns this weekend

The highly anticipated summer event, Trans Pride Southampton, returns on Saturday, 29th June. This event will start with a protest march through Southampton, starting at Oxford Street and finishing at the event’s venue, Edmund Kell Unitarian Church. The march will start from 12pm and last approximately one hour. Prior...

Review: Pride in the Park, Southampton – Day #1

By Mabel Wellman. The two day Pride In The Park event has started today on the 8th June, and will continue into the evening of 9th June. The day started fairly quietly, but the live performances soon grew a  crowd to sing and dance along to many queer classic...

Pride Month starts today

By Mabel Wellman. Today marks the start of Pride month across the world. Cities and towns internationally will be having LGBTQIA+ Pride events, some of which will be for celebrating the entire community, whereas some other events such as Trans Pride and UK Black Pride will be to give...

People’s Pride: there’s no place for transphobia

By People’s Pride Southampton. In their latest column, People’s Pride Southampton looks at the impact of transphobia on transgender people and the wider community, ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20. In the current political landscape, a heated debate rages over the rights and protections afforded to...