Pride in London Festival Saturday 24 June - Sunday 9 July 20

Pride in London Festival Saturday 24 June - Sunday 9 July 2017 

Firstly, apologies if you receive this more than once - rather a large mail out!

On Saturday my team kicked off the Pride in London Festival in great style at Tate Britain. For any of you who were able to attend, thank you for showing up and supporting.

Yesterday we held a screening of Jungle Book, and also held a Run for Rights Pride Run, both of which sold out or were over subscribed. 

We have 105 more events planned across the next fortnight, making it a huge festival this year and one of the largest of its type in the world. To ensure as many people as possible come and play a part in these events and show the community there is an audience for their work we need your help ...

I'd be enormously grateful if you could share this email with your families, friends, lovers, neighbours, work colleagues, and any random people you meet in the street, and encourage them to come along to one, two or all the events as there is definitely something for everyone!  

We have deployed some cunning tactics to make sure the Pride in London Festival is promoted heavily, including the despatch last week of 25,000 leaflets to bars, clubs, museum's, theatres and selected household postcodes across London. And if you have been out for a drink in the last 48 hours you may have seen some of our 20,000 bar mats or even rested your Pimms on one! 

More here: http://www.visitlondon.com/pride-in-london/whats-on#S4Tu6GyoM2M7TKGI.97

Pride in London Events - visitlondon.com www.visitlondon.com Celebrate London’s LGBT+ community with everything from live music and film screenings, to art exhibitions and historical tours, at the many Pride in London events ...

Volunteer for Pride in London - Saturday 8 and/or Sunday 9 July


We are still looking for more volunteers to help out over our main weekend: please consider coming along yourself - even a short shift would help, leaving plenty of time to enjoy the rest of the day. Or sign up your friends, family - even your favourite aunt or uncle! We still have training slots left with some on the morning itself:



http://prideinlondon.org/get-involved/volunteer




Thanks in anticipation!


Patrick x

Patrick Lyster-Todd FRSA MInstLM

12a The Sanctuary, Green Lane, Morden, Surrey SM4 5NX
H: 020 8648 8502 M: 07973 435754 E: gpltodd@msn.com

Director Community Engagement

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Queer Spirit Summer Festival 2017

A festival celebrating the love, passion and creative spirit of the LGBT+ community.
500 Queers of all ages, spending 5 days in stunning Wiltshire countryside enjoying a packed programme of performance, workshops, ceremonies, discussions, music and dance.
A meeting of hearts, minds and bodies in a magically held atmosphere, Queer Spirit Festival is a liberating realm of freedom of self-expression, self-exploration and community creation.
LGBT+ people taking spirituality into our own hands, redefining ourselves and finding our roles in the world. Remembering that we are people of magic - and learning how to use it!
5 day, weekend and concession tickets available. https://www.queerspirit.net/festival

From 26th to 30th July

LGBT at the British Museum

Desire, love, identity
exploring LGBTQ histories

11 May – 15 October 2017
Free

This display offers glimpses into LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer) histories, experiences and lives by examining objects from around the world, covering ancient civilisations right up to today. More information can be found here

Friday 7 July: 18.30–19.45

A panel of speakers tries to answer one question:

what makes an object LGBTQ?

The panel includes Laura Phillips, co-curator of the current Room 69a display Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories, Professor Richard Parkinson, University of Oxford, and author of A Little Gay History: desire and diversity across the world, E-J Scott, curator of the Museum of Transology, Nigel Harris, Director, Camden LGBT Forum and Sue Sanders, Co-Chair of LGBT History Month. Tickets £5
Members/Concessions £3

You can find all the necessary info here

Join GPN tomorrow at the Glasshouse in Camden Lock

You are invited to the following event: GPN Event to be held at the following time, date and location: Thursday, 15 June 2017 at 18:30 The Glasshouse Holiday Inn London-Camden Lock 30 Jamestown Rd NW1 7BY London United Kingdom View Map Attend Event Share this event:  Join us at the Glasshouse in Camden Lock on Thursday 15th June at 6:30pm with splendid views on the Lock and the iconic bridge, you will be greeted on arrival with Prosecco, Wine or Beer. (6:30-7:15pm) A bar will be open for any other drinks. (picture taken from their conference brochure, this will not be the set up as we like to mingle). The venue is fully airconditioned and there is an outside space too! Get connected, productive & proactive with GPN, The LGBT platform to promote your causes, companies, venues & businesses. I would also like to invite you to take membership of GPN, the Gay Professional Network. Please join on http://gpn.one.  You can choose to pay monthly (£20) or yearly (£200) on a recurring basis.   Temporary members as you are at the moment, registering through Eventbrite, are able to attend our gatherings three times only, by which time, they must decide if they want to join us.   GPN is a membership organisation that operates since 2010 on a non profit basis. The excess from the membership fees after drinks and room hire, when applicable, pays for the website, promotion, organising, stationary, transport & banners.   From now on, we are going to move to various venues, always supporting whenever possible LGBT owned or operated venues, occasionally some will be more exclusive that may impose a dress code.  In 2017 more than ever, membership is important for all of us. Sadly we still need to tackle homophobia and educate and promote our fellow gay men, professionally and socially.  We all have been affected directly or indirectly.   We need to educated and make sure that education in schools, families and everywhere teach love and respect for all mankind. GPN does this through our many connections: we are part of the LGBT Consortium, linked to the Gay Business Association and myGwork where you can post your CV and look for employment free of prejudice or find the best available from the LGBT Community to ensure diversity in your workforce.  Your membership not only gives you free entry to all our social and networking events, unless otherwise indicated, you get access to discounted and tailored insurance,  free legal and  financial advise, free property or events consultations and free entries to many clubs, other events,  discount and other perks through our newsletter.  You can communicate with registered members through these media: Facebook Page,  Group and LinkedIn. I invite you to join these groups if you have not already done so.  I invite you to visit www.gpn.one and discover our website where in the events section you will see other exclusive events, such as lunch in the Guildhall's Crypts with the Lord Mayor and other dinners in private  members clubs.   The Gay Professional Network is your platform to promote your cause, your business, venue and yourself. It  helps your further your business or career and makes meaningful business and social contacts. You get connected, proactive and productive.  It is also a get together of like minded people who enjoy meeting other people. All very nice people in a relaxed atmosphere. I very much look forward to seeing you again next Thursday, 15th June, at the Glasshouse in Camden. Jean-François. jf@gpn.one www.gpn.one www.jfdor.co.uk If you do know someone who would like to host our events please let me know. If there is a photographer in the room, please let him/her know if you do not wish your picture to appear on the website or facebook page and tagged. It is assumed that everyone is happy to have their pictures to be used for the promotion of the network.  More info on the network:  www.gpn.one  Share this event on Facebook and Twitter

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DID A CHRISTIAN SOCCER PLAYER SKIP TWO MATCHES TO AVOID WEARING A PRIDE JERSEY? Jaelene Hinkle is a devout Christian who posted an anti-marriage equality rant on social media two years ago. READ MORE ONE YEAR LATER: CHECKING IN ON A PULSE SURVIVOR, 911 OPERATOR & FIRST RESPONDER Where are they now and how are they doing? READ MORE

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Pride at Parliament tours.

8th July Pride at Parliament tours.

These first ever Pride at Parliament tours mark 50 years since the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 and 60 years since the presentation of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. 

https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-parliament-news/pride-at-parliament-tours-july-2017/