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Lighthouse is incredibly proud to host the first ever Poole Pride on Saturday 8 June 2024 in celebration of our community and its many beautiful identities.

A joyful celebration of the beautiful identities of our LGBTQ+ community, the first ever Poole Pride will bring a splash of rainbow colour to Lighthouse on Saturday 8 June with an open invitation to come as you are and embrace a full day and night of inclusive entertainment.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor will headline the first ever Poole Pride on Saturday 8 June 2024. Planned in consultation with a community steering group that includes members of the LGBTQ+ community, Poole Pride will include performances and activities throughout Lighthouse, including the outdoor theatre. A Queer film festival will run in the week leading up to Pride as well as a month-long exhibition, presented in partnership with AUB, honouring influential gay activist John Chesterman who was closely involved in the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and whose ideas underpin the modern Pride movement. 

Following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak many local Pride festivals, including Bourne Free, Bournemouth's Pride Festival, have been postponed or cancelled.

Celebrate the Bounremouth Pride weekend with an afternoon of al fresco entertainment at Kingston Lacy.

Bourne Free Pride Festival is not far off.  The dates for your diary are 12th to the 14th July 2019.

Bourne Free, Bournemouth's Pride Festival, is back for 2018 and the dates for your dairy are 13th to 15th July.

Saturday 1st July saw the colourful Bourne Free Pride Parade travel through Bournemouth. The parade route started on East Cliff, continued through the town centre and ended up in The Triangle.

Bourne Free is Bournemouth's LGBT Pride Festival and takes place each year to celebrate diversity in our community. Here are the top ten things you need to know to enjoy this year's fabulous festival. Have you got your own festival tips? Share them below.

To mark the 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Kingston Lacy in Wimborne are linking up with Bourne Free, Bournemouth's Pride Festival, to offer an afternoon of music on Sunday 2nd July 2017.