Isle of Wight Pride celebrated a return to the beach in style in July with a weekend of entertainment, community involvement and a parade.
Isle of Wight Pride celebrated a return to the beach in style in July with a weekend of entertainment, community involvement and a parade.
A new logo has been designed to reflect a greater diversity within Isle of Wight’s LGBTQ+ communities, whilst representing its unique connections to the Island. The new logo, which will help to establish and develop the charity’s identity, will be used on all future communications and merchandise. Created by local designer Shaun Cuff, the logo […]
Events start on Friday, August 18 with the Pride Launch Party from 5 – 9pm featuring Cherry Liquor and Dawn the Drag Queen, DJ host Boom Party Live, and a variety of food and drink including the newly launched IW Pride Cocktail.
Isle of Wight Pride returns in August with a weekend event at Eastern Gardens, Ryde Esplanade
The grant will help it continue its Out On An Island activities, which includes researching the heritage and history of the Isle of Wight’s LGBTQ+ community with its new project OUT ON AN ISLAND: PRIDE IN SELF, PRIDE IN PLACE.
Boogaloo Stu and Ladypat are to bring Queer Hearts, a year-long cultural exchange between Isle of Wight and Brighton, to Brighton’s Jubilee Library in January 2023.
The year-long project which will encompass a joint exhibition of new artworks, plus workshop events, and concluding in May 2023 with a cultural exchange between the artists’ home locations of the Isle of Wight and Brighton.
To rekindle interest and welcome new volunteers, IW Pride is holding a drop-in session on Friday, February 25 at the Riverside Centre in Newport from 12.30 – 6.30pm
The book features excerpts from 18 interviews with LGBTQ+ people, carried out over two years, who share honest, intimate accounts of what it’s like to be ‘out’ on the Isle of Wight, an isolated island with a long and abiding conservative history
StoneCrabs Theatre Company is to launch Out On An Island, the first LGBTQ+ history and heritage exhibition for the Isle of Wight, at Clayden Gallery on Saturday, June 19
