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4 September 2019
Southampton Pride has grown year on year. The parade on 24 August was a huge spectacle, greeted by cheers and clapping from shoppers in the streets we passed.
3 July 2019
Stonewall riots' legacy shows need for socialist struggle to win LGBT+ liberation
The Stonewall riots 50 years ago have been widely seen as the birth of modern LGBT+ rights movements.
29 May 2019
Birmingham Pride - revitalising political struggle
Pride should be used to fight back against oppression and as a platform to promote socialist policies
3 April 2019
Discussion and debate at Leeds Trans Pride
Transphobic hate crimes are going up. Trans people have gained some legal protections but still face high levels of unemployment and around a two-year wait for NHS services.
9 January 2019
Linking LGBT+ rights to the fight for socialism
The growing Socialist Party LGBT+ group held its first national meeting of the year on 6 January, writes Fred Ray.
3 October 2018
More party than protest, but great response to socialist ideas at Leicester Pride
With over 10,000 attendees including 3,000 people in the parade, Leicester Pride was the largest the city has seen
22 August 2018
Huge but chaotic Brighton Pride needs to be politicised
Members of Brighton Socialist Party attended Brighton Pride on 4 August. Although it is the UK's biggest Pride event, drawing in more than 400,000 people this year, in recent years it has been largely depoliticised.
25 July 2018
Initial estimates put the draw for Northern Pride in Newcastle at way over 10,000. LGBT+ people from across Britain were drawn to the energetic and vibrant event to celebrate our sexuality.
25 July 2018
Fighting for trans rights at Bristol pride
The biggest Bristol Pride yet took place on the 14 June. Following the attempts by anti-trans rights campaigners to hijack London pride, Bristol Socialist Party was out campaigning to support trans rights and fight for the rights of all LGBT+ people and oppressed groups in society.
23 May 2018
30 years on from Section 28: the legacy of fighting LGBT+ attacks must continue
On 24 May 1988 Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was enacted in England, Scotland and Wales by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.
23 May 2018
Sheffield Pride organisers defeated in attempt to ban politics
Organisers of Sheffield Pride have sparked criticism of the event after calling Pride a "celebration, not a protest."
6 September 2017
Warts-and-all account of class war and the struggle for LGBT+ rights
Non-fiction review: Pride: 'Pride' tells the story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). The group struggled alongside miners and their families in south Wales during the 1984-85 strike
9 August 2017
Support for Socialist Party campaigns at biggest ever Leeds Pride
Socialist Party members joined an excellent Leeds Pride on 5 August. It was the biggest ever Pride parade in Leeds, with over 40,000 attending
27 July 2017
Socialist Party members attended the tenth annual Northern Pride event on Saturday 22nd July to celebrate LGBT+ culture, history and societal diversity
12 July 2017
Fighting corporate takeover at London Pride
"Build a fighting socialist movement for LGBT+ rights!"
5 July 2017
Pride 2017: we need a fighting, socialist movement for LGBT+ rights
Michael Johnson, from the Socialist Party's LGBT group, highlights some of the issues being discussed in this year's Pride celebrations and examines the lessons of the Russian revolution for the struggle for LGBT+ rights today
21 June 2017
There was a real carnival atmosphere not just because it was Pride - but as one person said: "It's like a weight of nasty politics is off my shoulders"
24 August 2016
Nottinghamshire Pride makes history
This year's Pride march in Nottingham on 30 July was a far cry from the corporate-sponsored 'respectability politics' of integration into the capitalist establishment.
10 August 2016
Leeds Pride 2016: Pride must be political!
Leeds Pride is the biggest free Pride event outside London and is an important place for the Socialist Party to show our support to the LGBTQ community. Our petitions called on the NHS to fund HIV preventative drug PrEP and were met with enthusiasm, particularly from people who currently take the drug but have to pay £400 for it.
29 June 2016
Socialist Party joins London Pride to march against LGBT-phobia
Annual Pride marches used to be radical, angry protests, aimed at normalising being openly LGBT. While there is still much further to go in reinvigorating and uniting LGBT struggle, this year's Pride march was a small but significant step closer to achieving that.
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