UK Black Pride to fundraise for Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest community-led, not-for-profit support group for African, Asian and Caribbean lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people – is encouraging the entire community to get behind the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Stephen Lawrence was an 18-year-old Black student who was brutally [...]
UK Black Pride to feature at Pride in London 2013 Golden Square dedicated to UK Black Pride events on 29 June UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest community-led, not-for-profit support group for African, Asian and Caribbean lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people – and London LGBT+ Community Pride are pleased to announce they are joining [...]
UK Black Pride, Europe’s biggest community organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage, has thrown its full weight behind London’s bid to host the Gay Games 2018. London will face familiar competition from Paris to host one of the world’s biggest multi-sport events but it has overcome the [...]
UK Black Pride has been nominated for a prestigious LGBT Community Organisation Award at The National Diversity Awards 2013. The awards celebrate the excellence and inspirational achievements of positive role models and community organisations from across Britain. Nominees are recognised in fields of diversity including race, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation. Pav Akhtar, a [...]
The Board of UK Black Pride extends a big thank you to all sponsors, supporters, entertainers and volunteers who were involved in delivering an impressive seventh annual festival at the Ministry of Sound in London on Saturday 18 August. Thank you We are confident that all 1,500 LGBT friends and guests who joined in the [...]
Politicians from the three leading parties have rallied around the UK Black Pride festival which takes place on Saturday 18 August at the Ministry of Sound, London, despite the news that the organisation has missed out on a Prime Minister’s Big Society Award for volunteering. UK Black Pride’s Director for Public Affairs, Pav Akhtar, said: [...]
Community groups have praised UK Black Pride’s ‘important and uplifting’ work to empower LGBT asylum seekers and refugees at the seventh annual UK Black Pride festival which takes place on Saturday 18 August at the Ministry of Sound, London. In a letter to the organisers of UK Black Pride, Erin Power, Executive Director of UK [...]
A new report from Stonewall and the Runnymede Trust reveals serious failings in public services to meet the needs of Britain’s 400,000 Black and minority ethnic lesbian, gay and bisexual people. One Minority at a Time, based on detailed interviews with Black and gay people, exposes widespread assumptions that Black people are heterosexual, with little effort [...]