Take Pride with events

Dorset Youth Pride will feature stalls from Space Youth Project, Pop ’n’ Olly, Dorset Youth Voice, Weymouth Gay Group, This is Me and Dorset Police. The Young Historians Group from the Keep Military Museum will showcase their display Queer Was Always Here exploring LGBT+ figures throughout history. n Dorset is set to have a record SIX Pride events this year – including a parade along Weymouth’s sea front for the first time. A Weymouth Gay Group spokesperson said: “We are overjoyed that Weymouth will see its first Pride parade along the seafront too, plus, not one, but three Pub Prides!”

Pride was born following the Stonewall riots in 1969 and is still a protest as well as an event of celebration for the LGBT community. The first three Dorset Prides were held on May 26, with The Wyke Smugglers and Hardy’s in Dorchester hosting, along with The Globe in Swanage. In June Dorset is set to have two Youth Prides – Dorchester’s and a nw Chesil Youth Pride, hosted by Weymouth College on Saturday, June 17, which will have a parade along the Esplanade. Dorset’s biggest and longest running LGBT+ event – Bournemouth Pride BourneFree – rounds off the Dorset celebrations over July 7 and 8 at Meyrick Park, with thousands of LGBT+ people, families and allies providing a riot of rainbow colour. For further info go to weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com