2025: 28 June - 13 July

Pride Day: Sat 12 July

About Pride

Pride is a positive stance against discrimination and violence towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) community.  Pride gives people the opportunity to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and to celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.

Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBT+ rights movements throughout the world.

Organised by members of the LGBT+ community, Bristol Pride is the chance for all LGBT+ people, their friends, families and allies to stand up and declare they are proud of who they and their loved ones are.

Bristol Pride is a registered charity (1166817) organised by volunteers from the community. We work all year round to challenge homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and promote equality and diversity, for all, through various events, school visits, consultation services and lobbying – check out our Project Work.

Community
To bring the community together to celebrate, create understanding, opportunities for engagement and to tackle discrimination. We also want to create safe and positive events and opportunities for younger people to connect with the established community.

Social
To challenge hearts and minds and to be a beacon of positive social diversity both here in the UK, and for those 77 countries where it is still illegal to be LGBT+.

Political
To not only help shape policy and procedure but to engage in the local and wider political landscape to not only further but to also maintain human rights for LGBT+ communities everywhere.

Mayor Marvin Rees and Lord Mayor

WHO WE ARE

There are a lot of people involved in making Pride happen, from venue owners and the staff asking their businesses to get involved right through to directors and business owners keen to show their support, pride and commitment to equality and diversity in Bristol.

Pride is organised by volunteers from the LGBT+ community who bring along their skills, experience and passion to Pride in between their day jobs. Just some of team:

Eve
Eve Festival Director

Eve has over 10 years experience in working on large scale events and festivals such as Port Eliot Festival, Shambala, Boomtown and Bestival. Eve initially came on board in 2018 as our Event Manager bringing with her a wealth of live event experience and oversaw our successful move in 2019 from Millennium Square and the Amphitheatre to our new home on The Downs. In 2020, she was appointed Festival Director and continues to take the lead on production and operations for the festival.

Daryn
Daryn Programming and Partnerships Director

Working on equality & diversity for over 16 years Daryn worked as a Recruitment Manager for the BBC until leaving in 2009 to help make Bristol Pride (in its current iteration) happen, following his passion to actually make a difference. He brings vast experience in programming, events, marketing and community engagement as well as delivering workshops on, and speaking about, equality and diversity.

In 2019 Daryn stepped down as CEO but due to covid19 has stayed on to help us through this challenging time and is looking after programming and festival sponsorship. As well as being awarded an MBE for services to the LGBT+ community, we are very proud that Daryn was also awarded Freedom of The City of Bristol in 2020...though due to Covid-19 is yet to pick up his certificate!

Freddie
Freddie Trustee

Freddie is one of the Pride trustees and for many years coordinator of the community area and other stalls at Pride, so will be a familiar face, seen dashing about the festival. He also pitches in with anything and everything that’s thrown at him and has been supporting Pride for many years now. He started volunteering with us when he was Social Secretary for the LGBT Soc at Bristol University where he graduated in Animal Welfare & Behaviour which must be where he learnt how to herd cats.

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Rebecca Queer Vision Film Festival Producer and Programmer

Rebecca has worked at Watershed, cultural cinema and long-standing Queer Vision partner, for the last 5 years. She works as a freelance Film Programmer and Producer and is part of the Beyond Boundaries 360 programme (for individuals and small organisations underrepresented in the cinema industry) supported by Film Hub South West. She is passionate about the power of film for social change, and representation and diversity on the screen and behind the camera. She has been a festival regular and pops up around Pride usually with the dog show and performing, but is delighted to be heading up the Queer Vision team, having developed a new partnership in 2020 with Encounters Film Festival to deliver Queer Vision online and has recently been successful in securing BFI FAN exhibition funding to enable Queer Vision to deliver more activity throughout the year.

Aled
Aled Cabaret Stage Manager

Aled came on board in 2013 after we managed to find the funding to bring back the Cabaret Stage, a much-loved element of Bristol Pride Day. One of our own Bristol Scene Queens you can often catch Aled or his alter ego Miss Beaver. Not afraid to shake a bucket when it comes to fundraising, Aled coordinates drag artists from all over the UK to perform in Bristol.

Jayne
Jayne Artist Liaison / Trustee

Graphic designer for some big brands and local companies in Bristol, Jayne has been working with Bristol Pride since 2010. The brain-child of our film festival Queer Vision, from designing the brand, programming and developing QV into a submissions festival partnering with Iris Prize.

In the early years of Bristol Pride Jayne stepped into the breach when our team was tiny, running the comedy night and looking after artists on the main stage, utilising her experience of festival and artist work at Glastonbury main, jazz and dance stages. Currently managing our main stage, which has become a firm favourite on the pride circuit for many artists.

As one of our trustees, Jayne puts over a decade of festival experience and knowledge into supporting the continued development, political and social importance of Bristol Pride.

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Steph Volunteer Coordinator

Coordinating our Pride Day Volunteers and looking at our longer term strategy and policies. Fun Stuff! Part of our Cultural Investment Programme to help look at making Pride more sustainable and ensuring all our incredible volunteers are well looked after.

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Ross Trustee | Education and Outreach Hero

Ross has volunteered for Pride since he was at university in 2010, and is now one of our Trustees. He teaches in a Bristol primary school and is committed to widening the representation and celebration of diverse identities and different families in education.

Mitch
Michelle Youth Engagement Partner

As a Youth and Community Worker – for LGBT Young People at Bristol City Council who better placed to help us reach out across the city then Mitch. She helps liaise young people and working with us to ensure participation and representation at Pride as well talks with local schools.

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Bryn Marketing & Communications Manager

Bryn has joined the Bristol Pride team after a broad career history spanning the music industry, graphic design, writing, and branding work. His role oversees our online presence, social media, writing, branding, and generally communicating our ethos.

As the newest member of our team, Bryn is passionate about broadcasting messages surrounding equality, diversity, and sustainability within Pride and the LGBT+ community.

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